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SCOM 2019 UR2 Features unveiled at SCOMathon 2020

Aakash Basavaraj, Program Manager in the SCOM Team at Microsoft, showcased their latest plans at SCOMathon 2020. So, what can we expect to see on SCOM’s roadmap in 2020? There will be some standard bug fixes for SCOM 2016 to keep this version ticking over, but for all of you planning to upgrade, the great news is the next rollup of SCOM 2019 is where the SCOM Product Team are focussing their efforts.

The 2020 State of DevOps survey: quarantine edition

Normally we would have launched our 2020 State of DevOps survey a couple of months ago instead of today. But with all of us adjusting to working from home, often with kids also at home or other loved ones to care for, we recognized that the last thing anyone should focus on was taking a survey. So we’re late. The additional time to plan, however, gave us the chance to consider some new and interesting pathways to explore.

Grafana and NGINX are partnering to give the open source community a turnkey experience for visibility

Over the past few years, NGINX users have naturally gravitated toward Grafana, and vice versa. These days, it’s not uncommon to see these two open source tools used together in the wild. And for good reason. F5, which acquired NGINX last year, is prioritizing building visibility across the entire product set, to make it easy for customers to quickly gain the insights that they need. Meanwhile, Grafana has evolved into the primary visualization and analysis tool in the open source market.

Circonus Offers Free Edition of its Kubernetes Monitoring Solution

After careful design and development with real-life input from our clients and beta testing with major organizations such as Major League Baseball, we announced this past spring the release of our new Kubernetes monitoring solution. Now, we’re excited to share that organizations can sign up for a free, no commitment 45-day trial of our Kubernetes monitoring solution. It’s simple. The solution installs in minutes, and turnkey health and performance dashboards instantly auto-populate.

Hybrid Working Environments and the Impact on IT Effectiveness

Over the past few months, many organizations have transitioned their employees from mostly onsite to fully remote work environments. Now we’re entering into a phase where roughly 30% of the workforce will soon head back to the office, while the rest continue to work from home.

Zoom and ServiceNow partner to make the best work-anywhere experiences even better

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. and ServiceNow today announced a commitment to each other’s technology solutions to make work-anywhere experiences work even better. With the ongoing pandemic and shelter in place orders Zoom’s usage rocketed to 300 million daily meeting participants in April 2020. Zoom deployed ServiceNow’s Customer Service Management (CSM) to scale its customer service operations and enable critical communications capabilities for its global community.

G2 Crowd Users Rank Uptime.com Best in Support and Most Likely to Recommend

Uptime.com has been ranked #1 in Customer Support, and has been voted Most Likely to Recommend by the G2 Crowd Community. These terrific achievements cap off a year of activity and updates that have helped Uptime.com remain a market leader in IT alerting and web monitoring solutions. With top scores in IT Alerting and Web Monitoring, Uptime.com continues to grow alongside our userbase to create the most powerful and accessible web monitoring platform.

Sentry Data Wash Now Offering Advanced Scrubbing

Over the past week, we rolled out access to Advanced Data Scrubbing for all users. If you were one of our Early Adopters, you’ve known about this for a couple of months. As the name implies, it’s an addition to our existing server-side data scrubbing features, meant to provide greater control and more tools to help you choose which data to redact from events. One of Sentry’s main selling points as an error monitoring platform is the data it collects and aggregates.

NEW Magecart Attacks Affect U.S. City Governments

The COVID-19 virus epidemic has seen a 23% rise in visitors to UK independent ecommerce sites. On a global scale, many companies have transitioned to fully ecommerce-based business practices and are seeing an increase in online shoppers. This paradigm shift in business continuity means websites are increasingly vulnerable to being attacked.