For better or for worse, we have become a society obsessed with efficiency. There are watermarks of it in every corner of our lives—from digital banking and e-commerce apps to smart thermostats and doorbells. Yet, despite us using automation in almost all aspects of our personal lives, a joint study conducted by PagerDuty and Dimensional Research found that, in contrast, 90% of companies have little to no automation for issue resolution.

Our CTO and Field CTOs spend a substantial amount of their time talking to customers, industry leaders and domain experts, gaining extraordinary insights and subject matter expertise on the most current and burning issues in IT Operations. Listening to them speak at events, webinars, prospect meetings and even as part of random watercooler chats, we always thought it was a shame we didn’t have a platform to share their wisdom on a broader scale.

Achieving HIPAA compliance is a key objective of today’s healthcare facilities and treatment centers. It ensures that patient information and electronic health records (EHRs) remain protected. Though important, some healthcare facilities fail to achieve HIPAA compliance. The inability to achieve compliance results in the loss of sensitive patient information, and requires facilities to pay hefty fines as a result of the intercepted data.

In this final installment of this blog series, we’ll discuss the importance of monitoring your observability data. Collecting and analyzing your metrics, logs, and traces in real-time is incredibly important and will provide you with the cues, signals, and insights you need to build your service assurance strategy. Only when applied with AIOps will you achieve true operational scale and automation.

Richmond, June 15 2020 Today, Derdack, provider of critical alerting for operations teams, announced the availability of SIGNL4 in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Derdack customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, streamlined deployment and management.

Selecting the right AIOps platform is just the beginning. It’s crucial for the technology to be implemented quickly and efficiently, and to demonstrate value quickly. This is true for any major technology investment but it is particularly true of AIOps. Why? AIOps, and AI in general, has in recent years been the subject of extreme hype. Its promise seems boundless. At the same time, it is poorly understood by those outside — and even inside — of the IT community.