Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Gartner predicts that large enterprise exclusive use of AIOps and digital experience monitoring tools to monitor applications and infrastructure will rise from 5% in 2018 to 30% in 2023. And this prediction is soon turning into a reality. AIOps is showing promising business value as it impacts measurable metrics such as mean time to detect (MTTD), mean time to acknowledge (MTTA), mean time to restore/resolve (MTTR), service Availability, percentage of automated versus manual resolution, and so on.

Azure Storage is like an all you can eat buffet, except the more you eat, the more you pay! This has provided organisations an almost limitless supply of storage, and as we all know, the more that’s available, the more we’ll use. Azure Storage has changed the way many organisations operate both in terms of availability and service.

Once you’ve committed to changing your culture in order to automate your database deployments, what’s next? You’ve already done the hard part, making the decision to shift the culture. Now, what’s involved is just lots of labor. There are three things you can do to begin your Database DevOps journey: Let’s discus these in detail. It’s important to understand, not just why these are your first three steps, but why they should occur in this precise order.

When it comes to your business’s global internet access, network speed, security and performance are paramount. Many enterprises use a premium internet service to meet the needs of their global operations. One option available to them, which we have covered extensively already on this blog, is to use dedicated internet access across a private MPLS network. The other is to use an IP transit service.

Today, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon ECS Exec, a powerful feature to allow developers to run commands inside their ECS containers. Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service by Amazon Web Services. ECS allows you to organize and operate container resources on the AWS cloud, and allows you to mix Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate workloads for high scalability.

What are shared services? How does a shared service business model work? In this article, we will be breaking down everything you need to know about shared services. Are you trying to build a request-centric operations model that places an emphasis on simplified customer experience? We will be exploring the key benefits of adopting a shared services model. There has never been a better time to start exploring the consolidation of business operations.

Technology and end users have an almost dichotomous relationship; as technology gets more complex, end users expect a more seamless experience. At the same time, end users are also looking for maximized application availability and performance. How can a federal IT team meet these increasing demands? The answer is monitoring. Most monitoring instances have been implemented as an afterthought or as a way to solve a single, specific problem.

How would you like it if your application shut down or started running slow without any warning? Let’s say, for instance, users who like your application try to access it, but aren’t able to. How would you know whether low traffic to your site is because users weren’t satisfied or because they simply weren’t able to access it? Users definitely won’t be satisfied when your application starts crawling with long response times.

Government IT organizations must demonstrate and maintain compliance with a large and growing number of regulations and standards around network access control (NAC), ensuring that all connected devices to their environment are not vulnerable is a key requirement. Comply to connect (C2C) simplifies this by enforcing that patches and hardened configurations are applied to devices before they connect and updated continually.

Businesses are always looking for ways to increase efficiency and eliminate waste. For software-driven companies, DevOps is one approach that helps to achieve this. The goal of DevOps is faster software delivery to the end-user while maintaining high software quality. DevOps enhances collaboration between operations and development teams for faster code deployment. When evaluating the effectiveness of your DevOps model, it is critical to use metrics relevant to your organization.