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AIOps: Hype vs. Reality

What is AIOps? How does an AIOps platform help your observability practice? AIOps platforms analyze telemetry and events, and identify meaningful patterns that provide insights to support proactive responses. AIOps platforms have five characteristics:1 The above is Gartner’s definition and is part of the Gartner® “Market Guide for AIOps Platforms.” The Gartner definition is also aligned with our view.

Your Cloud Provider Will Fail You Eventually

Cloud has become the de facto way to build infrastructure, meaning cloud providers end up in charge of a significant amount of the apps we use every day. From the likes of Netflix, Slack, Ring and Doordash running on AWS or PayPal, Twitter and HSBC on GCP, it's easy to see how impactful a failure of any type can be. Let's look at some of the issues that have happened recently that have led business to consider how dependent they are on a single provider.

Video: Cloud Native Traffic Replay

With the introduction of new application platforms like Kubernetes, oftentimes the DevOps tooling around it needs to evolve. Cloud Native technology is powerful but complex. This 5 minute demo video shows how Speedscale provides production simulation capabilities so you can check for resiliency, quality and scalability in your Kubernetes clusters. You can record data and traffic in production and replay sanitized traffic on the fly against a new cluster.

Charmed Kubeflow 1.6 Beta is out: try it today!

We are happy to announce that Charmed Kubeflow 1.6 is now available in Beta. Kubeflow has evolved into an end-to-end MLOps platform for optimised complex model training. We’re looking for data scientists, ML engineers and developers to take the Beta release for a drive and share their feedback! Read on to learn more.

Introducing OpUtils' IP Request tool

Are multiple IT operators accessing, utilizing, or managing your network address space? If so, then you might have noticed that one of the time-consuming network management tasks you are undertaking regularly, is allocating IP addresses to the IT operators. This is an inevitable task since, as your network scales with new physical components or technology implementations, your operators require new IPs to enable network connectivity.

Distributed tracing and correlation through Service Bus messaging

Over the last few years, Microsoft has built excellent tooling around different technologies. Today, everything is available and achievable through the Azure Portal, which helps manage complex solutions. However, this brings in challenges when it comes to managing the distributed resources. The struggle to keep track of messages or know the flow of messages through these distributed resources is growing day by day.

What is Ansible: The DevOps Tool to Automate IT Tasks

Redhat Ansible is one of the most popular automation platforms in the IT industry. Since its launch, it has earned its place among some of the best DevOps tools. Powered by an open source community of more than 3550 contributors, it occupies more than 50% of the market share in the configuration management segment. This article will explore Ansible and how IT professionals and engineers use it to power their workflows. Read on to learn more about one of the most powerful automation platforms.