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Meet the Tech Evangelist Group!

We're excited to announce that we have a new customer-facing tech team on board, the SquaredUp Tech Evangelist Group! As a team, Adam, Shawn and Sameer will be producing cool, nerdy tech content about all things monitoring, as well as kick-starting various initiatives to help customers make the best of SquaredUp. These include in-depth tech guides, on-site customer visits and many things in between – read on to find out more!

CFEngine 3.15 LTS released

Today marks a new milestone for CFEngine, with the release of the new CFEngine 3.15.0 LTS. This is the newest Long Term Supported CFEngine series, introducing a lot of great stuff. The biggest new feature in CFEngine 3.15 is Federated Reporting, which we will cover later in this blog post, but there are many other new improvements as well. If you are interested to learn more, schedule training, or hear about pricing options, feel free to reach out to us!

Rancher Security: 2019 Recap

It’s that time of year again, the time for retrospective articles and “Top 10 of the Year” posts. We decided to focus our recap on how CVEs and changes in the threat landscape affected Kubernetes in 2019, and what changes that brought about inside of Rancher. Throughout 2019, solutions across the CNCF stack prioritized security and brought it to the forefront of both mind and action.

How to Take a Business-Centric Approach to AIOps Adoption

In our previous blog post, we discussed how investments in AIOps platforms have been justified on the basis of their ability to decrease mean time to problem resolution and the resultant cost reduction. But one of the challenges most IT Ops teams face is in the approach of deploying AIOps solutions for business-critical use cases: Where do we start? Some use AIOps to analyze unstructured data in order to identify higher-level correlations that traditional IT monitoring tools wouldn’t be capable of.

9 common organizational charts, demystified

Choosing the best organizational structure for your company, division, or team is a lot like picking out a new car. At the most basic level, you’re always looking for something road-worthy – something that can take you (and your passengers) from point A to point B without a hitch. But beyond that, there are many other options to consider. Automatic or manual? Four-wheel drive? Built-in GPS? Leather interior?

14 Enterprise Benefits of ITSM

Today, it’s hard to think about delivering business services without the support of IT. Since IT has become so rooted in the day to day operations of almost all kinds of business, the delivery model of IT functions resembles more of a service. This is why, majority of them have embraced ITSM as the standard way to deliver IT services. People have accepted ITSM globally.

Find, install, and manage plugins with Mattermost's new Plugin Marketplace

For many organizations, Mattermost is valuable not just as a standalone messaging system for chatting with team members, but as a central system where conversations, tools, files, and workflows come together to help teams get work done. One of the most powerful ways to connect Mattermost with other tools and build more efficient workflows is through plugins, our system for extending and changing a Mattermost server’s capabilities.

Enforcing Network Security Policies with GitOps - Part 1

“How do I enable GitOps for my network security policies?” This is a common question we hear from security teams. Getting started with Kubernetes is relatively simple, but moving production workloads to Kubernetes requires alignment from all stakeholders – developers, platform engineering, network engineering, and security. Most security teams already have a high-level security blueprint for their data centers.

WHAT'S NEW Pandora FMS 742

In release 742, we have updated some components integrated into the solution, such as cURL 7.65.3 version, in addition to several bugs being solved to help improve software performance, such as an error in SLA-Wizard reports or on private dashboards. We also have updates, such as new integrations in the Pandora FMS plug-in library: RabbitMQ and Grafana.

OpsRamp and Gartner IOCS: The Changing Role of Digital Infrastructure

OpsRamp recently attended the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations, and Cloud Strategies Conference, where analysts addressed the future of digital operations management. In the opening keynote, and throughout many of the sessions, Gartner talked about how infrastructure technologies are increasingly becoming disruptive and endemic to business strategy.