In healthcare details matter, and providing the services and support patients need means that zero quality compromise is key. As the pandemic has put a strain on most industries, those in healthcare may have had the heaviest burden. Regardless of speciality and size, operational inefficiencies and poor patient communication and service remain highly prevalent in medical practice today. These can lead to high rates of physician and administrative burnout as part of a stressful and busy career.

Imagine being part of an overactive group chat that causes your phone to buzz every few minutes. In the beginning, you open every message but soon realize that most of them aren't important-or at least are not relevant to you. So, what do you do next? Maybe you let the messages pile up and check them later. Or perhaps, you mute the group chat and ignore the incoming messages altogether. You can blame this tendency to ignore or avoid incoming messages or notifications on one culprit: alert fatigue.

Achieving operational excellence will ensure your business is firing on all cylinders. This is the point at which everything just falls into place and works seamlessly. If you do not yet have a clear path toward operational excellence, this guide will offer a few practical ways for you to unleash the potential of your organization. But first, let's break down operational excellence.

There is a multitude of options on the market when it comes to open source and commercial monitoring platforms that are available for cloud management. It can be hard to sift through the various tools and come to an informed decision on what is the best fit for your team. In this article, we will explore the strengths and weaknesses of both open source and commercial tools and when each option is suitable for deployment.

World Youth Skills Day is celebrated on July 15th each year. It aims to raise awareness around the importance of equipping young people with skills for employment and entrepreneurship. With many countries experiencing a skills shortage, young people have a lot to bring to the table. Below, you can find insights from business leaders who are ready to welcome the next batch of young talent into the workforce.

API Observability isn't exactly new, however it's popularity has seen rapid growth in the past few years in terms of popularity. API Observability using open source is different from regular API monitoring, as it allows you to get deeper and extract more valuable insights. Although it takes a bit more effort to set up, once you've got an observability infrastructure running it can be immensely helpful not only in catching errors and making debugging easier, but also in finding areas that can be optimized.

In cloud-native organizations and software as a service (SaaS) businesses, cloud security automation is becoming a must-have feature. You can't stay ahead of threats across several levels of your cloud environment using manual procedures alone, and you can't rely exclusively on cloud providers' security technology, which doesn't operate across different clouds and lacks advanced automation features. Managing these infrastructures and apps in multi-cloud settings becomes increasingly difficult and compounds the operational issues that you face today. Automation is the way to go if you want to stay ahead of the game and meet the expectations of your customers.

The Great Resignation comes at an inconvenient time for IT leaders. Needing to accelerate plans for IT transformation because of the pandemic, organizations required more digital technology and services to support the shift to a hybrid workforce. Unfortunately, now organizations are struggling to find enough IT employees-with the right skill set-obstructing these digital transformation initiatives.