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Monitoring + Automation: An Elusive Goal

Today’s monitoring investments align more often with automation than any other technology. Automation is one of the principal objectives of DevOps to reduce toil, i.e. manual work. This helps keep engineers happy and engaged, allowing for better scale in building and operating applications. Automation typically spans infrastructure and application technologies. The challenge is that many organizations just have too many automation tools.

What Observability Means to Digital Experience Monitoring

It would not be wrong to say that Observability is the new buzz word for the last couple of years at least and often we find organizations burden themselves with questions like – The answer to these questions lies in understanding the concept of Observability and how it ties in with the digital experience monitoring strategy of your organization and only then can you determine where you stand in terms of Observability.

Dogfooding for Deploys: How Honeycomb Builds Better Builds with Observability

Observability changes the way you understand and interact with your applications in production. Beyond knowing what’s happening in prod, observability is also a compass that helps you discover what’s happening on the way to production. Pierre Tessier joins us on Raw & Real to talk about how Honeycomb uses observability to improve the systems that support our production applications.

Using Observability as a Proxy for Customer Happiness

Today, users and customers are driven by response rates to their online requests. It’s no longer good enough to just have a request run to completion, it also has to fit within the perceived limits of “fast enough”. Yet, as we continue to build cloud-native applications with microservice architectures, driven by container orchestration like Kubernetes in public clouds, we need to understand the behavior of our system across all aspects, not just one.

How to Assess Your IT Operations Discovery to Resolution Pipeline

The 2020 State of the Cloud Report finds that 60% of enterprises will increase their cloud infrastructure usage due to Covid-19. Hybrid infrastructure adoption creates new management challenges for IT operations teams which are further exacerbated by shrinking technology budgets and staff skill shortages. Gartner predicts that 40% of IT operations teams will deploy AI-augmented automation by 2023 to keep up with customer expectations and changing business models.

An effective hybrid cloud migration project can yield 145% ROI in three years, global study reveals

San Jose, CA, July 14, 2020 – Organizations that embrace hybrid cloud migration projects can yield a 145% return on investment within three years, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Virtana has revealed. The study, which reviewed customer projects completed in the last three years, found that a composite organization achieved benefits of $2 million by adopting planning and optimization platforms, such as as Virtana’s CloudWisdom and VirtualWisdom.

Reputation Matters - Nexthink's Execs Share Favorite Customer Stories

Perhaps one of Nexthink’s most endearing qualities is that it has never been a “drink the kool-aid” type of company. Yes, we are proud to be the leading experience management platform in IT, but that honor is most championed from outside, not within. From its beginnings, Nexthink has been used by enterprise IT to narrow the gap between what employees expect at work and what they receive.

How Artificial Intelligence is Shaping the Industry of VPN

Artificial intelligence refers to the machine's ability to learn and think. Given that it sort of mimics how humans think and reason, AI's application is virtually endless. AI reduces human error, do a task that is risky for humans to do, help humans solve complex, and so much more. With the emergence of artificial intelligence, concerns about data privacy have been brought into the light. Artificial intelligence relies on our personal information to learn.

BREAKING NEWS: SCOMaaS from Microsoft is coming

Before we get into it, let’s get one thing straight, by SCOMaaS, I am in no way referring to Azure Monitor here. I truly mean that the SCOM Management Groups themselves would be hosted and managed by Microsoft SaaS style! This is the biggest announcement from the SCOM Product Team at SCOMathon 2020, for this single reason – it sets the direction on the future of SCOM as a product and clearly positions it along side Azure Monitor.