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Teams are always looking for a speed advantage, and that comes from planning, crisp execution, and teamwork. To this end, we’re excited to release new enhancements to Incident Collaboration to help make life easier for DevOps teams during incident response. The Mattermost platform includes built-in Incident Playbooks with predefined response plans and task lists. Playbooks can be customized to your environment and specific use cases.

We recently launched the public preview of a new tool that lets anyone dashboard anything – for free. Meet Dashboard Server! You can download it free because we wanted to get our incredible dashboards in the hands of more people. The SCOM community know us well but our dashboards are perfect for so many use cases beyond System Center monitoring. And if you love them as much as we think you will, all we ask in return is that you share that love by spreading the word.

We are excited to announce the general availability of cross-cluster search and replication on Elastic Cloud. These two features allow you to search and replicate data across clusters in different regions and cloud service providers globally, making it possible to: Be sure to dive in and learn more about the features below! Cross-cluster search lets you search remote clusters across multiple regions and cloud service providers. When you break down regional data silos, you can get insights faster.

Mattermost v5.33 is generally available today. This new release offers the following new features (see changelog for more details):

We are delighted to share that ManageEngine has been recognized as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide UEM software 2020-2021 Vendor Assessment for the fourth consecutive year.

Cloud-native and serverless come hand in hand. One of the initial motivations to move business workflows to the cloud was related to cutting costs related to provisioning infrastructure and elasticity that on-demand allocation of resources is offering.

We are thrilled that Elastic has been recognized as a Leader and a Fast Mover in the 2021 GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud Observability. GigaOm Radar reports offer a forward-looking view of the market and are designed to help IT decision makers evaluate solutions with an eye to the future. Their analysts consider not just where the solutions are today, but also how the market is evolving and where the solutions are headed relative to that trend.

Today, Logz.io is thrilled to announce that Prometheus-as-a-service is now generally available for anyone to try themselves! I’d like to thank the Logz.io village for executing a huge milestone on our quest to unify the best open source monitoring tools on Logz.io’s scalable cloud platform.

I’ve learned a lot about serverless in my first full year at Stackery after joining from the Ops-focused automation company, Puppet. I’ve learned how to deploy rich CMS-backed web applications in a serverless way, how to cast incantations using CloudFormation’s intrinsic functions, but most of all I’ve learned that there’s a lot to learn in order to be successful in AWS.

On Friday, March 12th, ChaosSearch announced that its ChaosSearch Data Platform won Gold for two product categories in the 2021 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Best Security Analytics Solution and Best Security Log Analysis solution. Of course, we are thrilled to be recognized for our leadership and innovation in security analytics, but beyond that, these awards help to highlight ChaosSearch’s advantages in an area of growing importance to Security Operations (SecOps) teams.