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NiCE Oracle Management Pack 5.10 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

The NiCE Oracle Management Pack enables advanced health and performance diagnostics for Oracle. Health and performance measurement is displayed directly in your Microsoft System Center console. NiCE integrations into SquaredUp dashboards and Cookdowns’ Easy Tune make it even easier to tune Oracle monitoring. Leverage your existing investment, reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies that will last beyond your expectations.

Top 3 Concerns of IT Admins Regarding AI Ops

AI Ops is about enabling developers, program managers, service engineers, website reliability engineers etc. to efficiently build as well as run online services or applications at scale with AI & ML techniques. AI Ops is expected to help improve service quality. customer satisfaction, enhance technology productivity, and reduce cost. With hype all around the world regarding artificial intelligence, IT leaders are sceptical whether it will actually be useful to them or will it add to their costs.

The Incident Response Approach to Remote Work

In response to recent events, many organizations are implementing social distancing programs such as remote work. Successfully transitioning to remote work does come with challenges, but the right practices and attitudes can make it much less painful (and safer for you than heading into the office). We like to think of incidents as “unplanned investments,” and a sudden switch to remote work could be considered an unplanned investment of its own.

Telstra Ventures Invests in Rancher!

Today, we announced our $40M funding round led by Telstra Ventures. We have been working with Telstra as a customer for many years. When Telstra Ventures, who was familiar with Telstra’s success in using Rancher and Kubernetes, approached us for a potential funding round, it was a no-brainer. A leading telco like Telstra exemplifies Rancher’s vision to Run Kubernetes Everywhere.

Contribute to Netdata's machine learning efforts!

Netdata contributors have greatly influenced the growth of our company and are essential to our success. The time and expertise that contributors volunteer are fundamental to our goal of helping you build extraordinary infrastructures. We highly value end-user feedback during product development, which is why we’re looking to involve you in progressing our machine learning (ML) efforts!

Monitoring Kubernetes with Grafana and InfluxDB

Most software architects and developers know that they need to monitor their systems. What often prevents them from implementing an effective monitoring solution is the plethora of choices they face. To set up a monitoring solution, you first have to decide what you want to monitor and how you want to monitor it. Then you have to settle for a collection and storage method. Next, you have to implement the interesting metrics in your system and start collecting them.

Mattermost 5.21: ChatOps integration with AWS, GitLab, and CodeShip, and more

Mattermost 5.21 includes improvements that will help your team work together more effectively. Some of these improvements, including the following ChatOps integration and plugins, were built during our successful open source chatbot hackfest that brought together 2,000 contributors from around the world.

Three Steps to Better Insights and Better Outcomes

In the past, IT asset management and IT service management processes have been separate disciplines with different objectives and goals. Given this reality, Ivanti recently surveyed over 1600 IT professionals to better understand the alignment of asset and service management processes. Some results weren’t surprising. Laptop and desktop computers are the most common managed assets, while niche industry-specific devices are the least managed. Our key finding, however, is clear.

Service Management in This Time of Widescale Remote Work

With the current focus on social distancing and other health precautions, service management leaders are probably already thinking about short-term implications of these rapidly incoming changes. The large-scale increased use of remote work is one implication. This might be a new option or an immediate mandatory requirement for all employees. Regardless, many IT organizations may not be ready.

Releasing Icinga DB v1.0 RC1

We have talked about it for a long time, but now it is here: The Icinga DB RC1 In case you managed to avoid all of the talk about it, Icinga DB is the replacement for our IDO (Icinga Data Output). What does this mean for you? It means SPEED. Especially for larger environments. So, what’s in the RC? It is basically a finished product. We want to give both you and us some time to test it out, find bugs and get comfortable with it.