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Design Thinking and Beautiful UX: Do They Matter for AIOps?

In this post, Pad Warrier, product manager at Zenoss, interviews Natalia Bakusevych and Carl Camera about the Zenoss design system. A beautiful user experience is the result of a purposeful, principled, and process-driven approach that begins with customer discovery. Natalia and Carl describe Zenoss' continual evolution with before and after examples that highlight increased productivity and efficiency for both Zenoss and our customers.

How Moneytoring Improves Your Daily Digital World

Imagine finding yourself doing everyday activities such as buying a soda pop in your favorite grocery store or analyzing your finances on your mobile banking app. You may drink your beverage and continue to enjoy your day. You may finish your task in an exceptionally ordinary fashion. You may also discover that your investments grew a tiny percentage since the last time that you reviewed them.

Zenoss Core Sunset

Last week, we announced that we are sunsetting Zenoss Community Edition, which was previously called Zenoss Core. (The title of this blog post refers to it as Zenoss Core, as that was the name for most of those 15 years and is the name by which most people know it.) Zenoss Community Edition was a free, on-prem monitoring tool the company made available for over 15 years, which had been downloaded millions of times. Zenoss Community Edition version 1.0 was released Nov. 15, 2006.

Tame the Alert Storm

In the past, troubleshooting an IT service issue could be quite simple. For example, an application disruption could often be isolated to a physical server or small group of servers that neatly fit into the domain of a single team that managed the company’s servers. However, with the dynamic landscape in modern IT environments, this is very rarely the case. Over time, you accumulate IT systems, which usually means you deploy tools to manage them.

New 451 Research Says Monitoring Tool Consolidation Has Become a Top Priority

Industry analyst firm 451 Research recently published a Business Impact Brief on how monitoring tool sprawl, which has long been a pervasive problem for large enterprises and government institutions, is creating even more challenges in modern IT environments.

AIOps for IT Ops - Part Two: Gartner Market Guide Insights

Industry analyst firm Gartner recently released a new report entitled Market Guide for AIOps Platforms. It’s a 20-page document that offers their perspective on the AIOps market. Unlike a Gartner Magic Quadrant, the Market Guides are not vendor comparisons. Market Guides are often precursors to MQs - they are used for emerging markets that may eventually have an MQ.

AIOps for IT Ops - Part One

Industry analyst firm Gartner recently released a new report entitled Market Guide for AIOps Platforms. It’s a 20-page document that offers their perspective on the AIOps market. Unlike a Gartner Magic Quadrant, the Market Guides are not vendor comparisons. Market Guides are often precursors to MQs - they are used for emerging markets that may eventually have an MQ.

Rethinking Anomaly Detection

John Sipple, Staff Software Engineer in AI, at Google Cloud presents Google's story about rethinking anomaly detection. In 2019, Google Smart Buildings asked the team to develop an AI-based fault-detection solution to help find and fix problems in climate control devices in large office buildings. Technicians were dissatisfied with conventional outlier approaches because they didn’t give the necessary insight to predict, diagnose and intervene. The result was a distributed deep-learning solution that provides explanations to aid understanding, prioritizing and fixing faults. We applied it to other domains, like data center monitoring and fraud detection, and then open-sourced the MADI machine learning algorithm behind it. We’ll describe our vision of how AI will shape the future of interpretable anomaly detection.

The Modern Monitoring Mullet: Business Intelligence in the Front, Machine Learning Party in the Back

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term mullet was "apparently coined, and certainly popularized, by U.S. hip-hop group the Beastie Boys," who used "mullet" and "mullet head" as epithets in their 1994 song "Mullet Head." But the term "mullet head" also appears in the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke." And the term "mullet head" was also used by Mark Twain in his novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," first published in 1885.