Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

August 2024

Monitoring the Monitor: Achieving High Availability in DX Unified Infrastructure Management

DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) from Broadcom is a comprehensive solution for monitoring an organization’s entire IT infrastructure from a single platform. DX UIM provides IT administrators and operations teams with a centralized view of their infrastructure to ensure availability and performance of servers, network devices, storage systems, virtualization environments, applications, and cloud services.

Topology for Incident Causation and Machine Learning within AIOps

Our thinking and use of topology within AIOps and Observability solutions from Broadcom has advanced significantly in recent years, while solidly building on our innovative domain tools. We’re providing a blog post series to communicate these innovations, advancements, and benefits for IT operations. In this blog post, we continue where the previous blog post left off.

Elevate Your Database Performance: The Power of Custom Query Monitoring With DX UIM

In today's data-driven world, while new storage solutions and data lakes continue to emerge, many companies still use traditional databases with specific needs for tracking activities. Custom queries, tailored to particular applications or use cases, are crucial for identifying performance bottlenecks, slow-running queries, and resource-intensive operations.

Enhancing IT Monitoring with DX UIM 23.4 Cumulative Update 2

In the ever-evolving landscape of IT infrastructure, staying ahead of potential issues and ensuring optimal performance is crucial. Broadcom’s DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) has been a trusted solution for comprehensive monitoring and management. With the release of DX UIM 23.4 Cumulative Update 2, users can expect a host of new features and improvements designed to enhance their monitoring capabilities.

Capitalizing on the Potential of Automation in Network Operations: Why Integration is Key

In many organizations, network teams are experiencing a significant skills shortage. The network operations center (NOC) requires expertise in various emerging technologies, which makes it increasingly challenging to find qualified candidates with the right skills. A recent survey revealed that in 2022, only 26% of companies found it somewhat to very difficult to hire networking professionals. By 2024, this figure had risen to 41%.

Expanding Monitoring Coverage with Device Self-Certification in DX NetOps

For most network operations teams today, there are a dizzying array of technologies in play, and more keep getting added to the mix. To efficiently manage these multi-vendor, multi-technology environments, it is vital to leverage network observability solutions that provide comprehensive coverage. This post examines how DX NetOps by Broadcom helps address this imperative.

Welcome to the Experience Driven NOC Network Path Change Alarms and Drill Down Context Pages

On your journey to the Experience-Driven NOC, DX NetOps 22,2 is enabling network operations centers to utilize their standard operating procedures and workflows to triage the performance of the entire network path of any user experience - over managed or unmanaged networks. As with any workflow, we start with an alarm and enable operations to drill down, in-context to the offending network device; giving operators enhanced visibility into network path performance along with key KPIs for focused troubleshooting on any and all user experience impact.

Optimizing VPN Performance and Availability with Network Observability by Broadcom

In recent years, hybrid work approaches have grown increasingly commonplace, and for a significant percentage of users, VPN is the go-to approach for accessing secured corporate resources and services. In fact, one article reveals that 72% of desktop and laptop users employ a VPN. As the reliance on hybrid work models and VPN connectivity continues to grow, VPN health has emerged as a critical success factor for businesses.

Leveraging the OpenAPI Framework to Expand Network Observability

It may be an obvious thing to say, but it’s true: every organization is different. DX NetOps is very much designed with that reality in mind. At Broadcom, the DX NetOps product team’s goal is to provide smart default dashboards and reports, but also to give customers all the capabilities they need to tailor views to their specific environments, personnel, objectives, and goals.

Topology for Confident Observability and Digital Resilience

In recent years, we’ve significantly advanced how we think about and use topology within AIOps and Observability solutions from Broadcom, while solidly building on our innovative domain tools. We’re eager to share these innovations, advancements, and benefits for IT operations. In this blog post, we level-set on the topic of topology, clarify several important concepts, and discuss the decisive role topology plays in delivering powerful capabilities for AIOps and Observability from Broadcom.

Enterprise DORA Metrics: Scaling Measurement Across Value Streams and the Organization

DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics are a ubiquitous measure of DevOps performance. These metrics are used in nearly every enterprise engaged in software development. DORA metrics help measure DevOps maturity, identify bottlenecks, and guide quality and process improvements. Despite their popularity, DORA metrics are generally considered difficult to measure and are primarily used by technical teams within the context of their respective domains.

Ensure Full Stack Observability Between Mainframe and Cloud/Container Applications with AIOps from Broadcom

As enterprises advance on their cloud/modernization journeys, many teams struggle to achieve full stack observability. These teams are finding that mainframe systems are a ”critical path” for applications that deliver business-critical digital services to customers, partners, and employees.