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The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

Incident Management in the Cloud Era: Challenges and Opportunities

The rapid adoption of cloud technology has revolutionized how organizations operate, collaborate, and innovate. With cloud solutions enabling on-demand scalability, data accessibility, and cost savings, they have become the backbone of modern business infrastructures. However, with this progress comes new challenges, especially in the realm of incident management.

How the ilert Team Achieved a Seamless Migration from Community MySQL to AWS RDS Aurora with Minimal Customer Impact

As our customer base and data demands grew exponentially over the years, scaling our database infrastructure became imperative. Our vision was to set up an active-active database architecture that would ensure regional independence and exceptional service quality globally. Here’s an in-depth look at how our team managed to migrate our production data to AWS RDS Aurora, incorporating cutting-edge strategies to minimize impact during the transitional phase.

DevOps Best Practices to Transform Your Development Process

Businesses are under constant pressure to deliver software faster and more reliably. Yet, the real challenge lies in maintaining quality standards without sacrificing speed. Traditional software development methods often lead to silos between teams, slower release cycles, and more frequent errors. These inefficiencies impact the speed of software delivery, risk system downtime, and customer satisfaction. The solution? Implementing DevOps best practices.

Five core incident response phases for ITOps

Effective IT event management is about more than restoring services. Managing and mitigating threats involves a comprehensive approach with five incident response phases: It’s crucial to take a structured approach to addressing disruptive events. Incident response involves multiple phases to minimize the impact and prevent service outages. An “incident” is any event that disrupts normal operations or threatens your information systems.

The Fundamentals of Enterprise Incident Management

These days, where businesses are more reliant on technology than ever before, ensuring operational continuity is critical. At the heart of this effort is enterprise incident management, a discipline that ensures organizations can effectively handle unplanned disruptions and restore services as quickly as possible.

The Ultimate List of Incident Management Tools in 2024

Incident management tools are important for organizations to effectively handle service outages. With so many incident management tools around with different feature sets, it's often difficult to find the one that is right for your needs. In this article, we attempt to make a list of incident management software available in 2024 with their features to help you arrive at the right one.

Better Database Incident Management | The Tony and Tonie Show

In this episode of The Tony and Tonie Show, we discuss how Redgate Monitor helps teams manage database incidents efficiently, by providing the right data to the right people, at each stage of a tiered incident response system. With fewer distractions from routine issues, specialist staff can focus on core tasks while teams resolve problems faster and prevent future disruptions.

xMatters Xenon Release

Blast off into a new era of incident resolution! Your teams may not have to choose between ground tanks or flying planes like they do in the arcade game, but with our Xenon release, resolvers will be able to quickly switch between strategies to ensure they’re always working as effectively as possible. So, let’s see what’s packed in this mission’s inventory.

What is a runbook for IT operations?

A runbook is a structured document detailing standardized procedures for completing routine IT operations processes. Runbooks are comprehensive guides that outline the steps and dependencies required to manage infrastructure, applications, and services within your IT operations. Runbooks bring order and organization to ITOps. These guides offer simple instructions for your team to handle challenges confidently and efficiently.

How to unlock $160.000 in annual cost savings - by using automated alert notifications

In today’s fast-paced world, time is money. The faster we can resolve one client’s issue, the quicker we can move on to the next, boosting client satisfaction and maximizing operational efficiency. However, the journey from identifying a problem to resolving it is often prone to delays and human errors. That’s why having an efficient, reliable and fast alert notification process is crucial for driving customer satisfaction and ensuring cost savings.