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Automate and schedule shutdowns in Microsoft Azure without powershell.

See how to use the Azure Virtual Machine Scheduler and save time and money within Azure subscription. Automate and schedule the shutdown and power back on of your virtual machines within Microsoft's Azure Cloud with ease. Download a free 30 day trial and test it for yourself now.

The Met Office - Manager of Managers - a Video Case Study

A 5-minute video featuring Hilary Palmer, manager of the Met Office’s Service and System Monitoring team and technical lead, Eddy Hemmings. Across the world, every single day, people make decisions based on the weather. The Met Office produces over 4 million forecasts every day; providing weather and climate forecasts to help with those decisions - to enable protection, well-being and support the economy. The Met Office’s Service and System Monitoring Team provide the organisation with real time monitoring of application, data and infrastructure components that are vital to the delivery of Met Office services to their customers. IT staff within the Operations Centre, need to have visibility in to the events that occur in their environment, knowing how and when to deal with these events and be able to act proactively and quickly. The consolidated view the Manager of Managers (MOM) provides facilitates this - in a single pane of glass. Without it failures may occur that bring the business to a halt.

DevOps for Windows Administrators

Site24x7 offers unified cloud monitoring for DevOps and IT operations. Monitor the experience of real users accessing websites and applications from desktop and mobile devices. In-depth monitoring capabilities enable DevOps teams to monitor and troubleshoot applications, servers and network infrastructures, including private and public clouds. End-user experience monitoring is done from 50+ locations across the world and various wireless carriers.

SnaPatch Patch Management Software Configuration how to

This video shows how to configure SnaPatch by SmiKar Software for use in your environment. SnaPatch interacts with SCCM, VMWare and HyperV. It will automate Snapshots of your virtual servers prior to deploying updates from SCCM, and only if the snapshot were successful. Help alleviate the patching risk, with SnaPatch.

Network Configuration Management Best Practices

One of the biggest responsibilities of system administrators and DevOps professionals is ensuring networks are always functioning properly. Network configuration management used to be a simple task. Watch resource usage and make the appropriate tweaks when the occasional traffic spike occurred. Since then, the rise of agile principles within the DevOps field has required system administrators to adapt to rapid shifts in their field.