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5 IT Myths That Are Costing You Time and Money

In the fast-paced world of IT operations, myths often masquerade as truths, leading organizations down inefficient and costly paths. Let’s look at five of the most pervasive myths and explore why modern solutions like PagerDuty Operations Cloud are essential for thriving in today’s complex IT environments. Myth 1: Kubernetes is self-healing, and no other tools are required. The Reality: While Kubernetes is often touted as a self-healing platform, this is only partially true.

Ask the Expert: Heath Newburn on Balancing Innovation, Compliance and Resilience in Financial Services

Financial entities face increasing complexity in digital operations, making resilience, compliance, and incident management more critical than ever. Heath Newburn, PagerDuty’s Global Field CTO, shares his expertise on tackling these challenges, balancing innovation with compliance, and building operational resilience for lasting success. What are the top challenges that you hear from IT leaders in regulated industries like financial services?

Building Resilience and Compliance in Finance: Insights from PagerDuty's Lee Fredricks

In an era where regulatory frameworks like DORA and FCA PS21/3 and PRA PS6/21 demand higher standards for financial resilience, European financial entities face growing pressures to ensure compliance and operational excellence. To understand these challenges, we spoke with Lee Fredricks, Director of Solutions Consulting for EMEA at PagerDuty.

2025 Starts Here: PagerDuty Innovations to Help You Tackle What's Next

As we enter 2025, we reflect on a year committed to innovation and customer success at PagerDuty. In 2024, we introduced capabilities that empowered operations teams to mitigate risks, protect customer trust, and improve business outcomes. From managing global outages to addressing complex digital operations, the PagerDuty Operations Cloud enabled organizations to respond faster, work smarter, and build operational resilience.

The Real Beauty of Business: Beyond the Surface

One of the most frequent questions I receive from customers is, “What are the best practices to represent my services in PagerDuty?” This question is not easy to answer, but there is a general consensus that the representation needs to be both accurate and visually appealing. This idea got me thinking about our many customers in the beauty and fashion industry.

Automate Fast & Win: 11 Event-Driven Automation Tasks for Enterprise DevOps Teams

Event-driven automation is a powerful approach to managing enterprise IT environments, allowing systems to automatically react to enterprise events (Observability / Monitoring / Security / Social / Machine) and reducing or removing the need for manual intervention. This post discusses 11 common automation tasks that are ideal for enterprise DevOps teams looking to enhance operational efficiency, reduce downtime, and ensure business continuity. Struggling with ideas for where to start?

Survey: 88% of Execs Expect an Incident as Large as the July Global IT Outage Within the Next Year

By Debbie O’Brien, Chief Communications Officer and Vice President of Global Social Impact at PagerDuty In today’s digitally-connected world, IT outages can be inconvenient at best and extremely challenging at worst.

PagerDuty's AI-First Future with AWS: Key Announcements at AWS re:Invent 2024

At AWS re:Invent 2024, PagerDuty is strengthening its long-standing partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Together, we’re launching new AI and automation tools to enhance operational efficiency and help teams deliver superior customer experiences. With a plugin for Amazon Q, and integrations with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, PagerDuty Advance is redefining what it means to respond to incidents faster and smarter.

Ask the Expert: Insights from Paula Thrasher, Senior Director of Infrastructure and Platform, PagerDuty

In this blog post, Paul Thrasher, Senior Director of Infrastructure and Platform at PagerDuty, provides her takes on the challenges and opportunities facing tech leaders today. From managing complexity to driving operational resilience, Thrasher shares expert insights on how executives can get ahead of disruptions.