Last month, the Digital Enterprise Journal (DEJ) recognized OpsRamp as a Top 20 Vendor for enabling best- performing organizations in managing IT operations. DEJ's recent report features OpsRamp in the Top 20 Vendors for Enabling Best Performing Organizations. Meanwhile, the field marketing team controlled the chaos at several industry events like IDG Chicago, ConnecTech Houston and CIO Summit by Sapphire Ventures.

OpsRamp offers different options to manage user identity, including built-in user management, SAML, and OAuth2 based authentication, and third-party authentication services. The OpsRamp Okta integration enables secure user authentication and seamless access without having to remember multiple passwords or re-enter login details.

The third quarter of 2019 has seen OpsRamp receive market recognition from three independent analyst firms, Digital Enterprise Journal, 451 Research, and Gartner. Leading media publications, DevOps Online News and ITOps Times, have also highlighted OpsRamp’s capabilities for DevOps and IT Operations Analytics.

The following first appeared in Cloud Tech News. In early June 2019, Google Cloud suffered a cascading set of faults that rendered multiple service regions unavailable for a number of hours. This by itself isn’t totally unprecedented; what made it significant was the way it propagated through the very software that was designed to contain it. Moreover, engineers’ initial attempts to correct the issue were thwarted by the failure of that same software architecture.

Digital Enterprise Journal (DEJ) just released their latest market study, The Roadmap to Becoming a Top Performing Organization in Managing IT Operations. DEJ surveyed 900+ organizations to uncover the best practices and capabilities of the top 20% of IT operations teams. The thirty-three-page report uncovers how top performing IT organizations (TPOs) are reaping operational and business benefits in the form of...

The August 2019 release introduced several platform updates for enhanced service-centricity with improved topology maps, machine learning transparency for intelligent event management, real-time visibility for public cloud monitoring, and deeper integrations.

Analyst firm Gartner recently predicted that “75% of all databases will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform by 2022, with only 5% ever considered for repatriation to on-premises.” Enterprise architects are deploying analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning workloads on cloud database platforms for greater scalability and lower operational overhead.

Monitoring and optimizing enterprise infrastructure is a complex undertaking with mission-critical workloads running across physical, virtual, container, and serverless resources. Agent-based monitoring delivers holistic control, rapid root cause(s) diagnostics, contextual alerting, and automated remediation for multi-generational infrastructure.

IT is in a state of change on a consistent basis, but never more so than now. With the increasing importance of the digital customer experience across all industries, technology is at a new inflection point in how it can fundamentally impact executive priorities. And while nobody can speak for the direction of IT as a whole, there are a few resources so comprehensive that they’re worth reviewing when they’re released.

Gartner Catalyst Conference 2019 is consistently a great venue for learning, sharing, and connecting. OpsRamp was a silver sponsor at this year’s event and our seven-member contingent had a wonderful time meeting with industry thought leaders, demoing OpsRamp to senior IT executives, and having fun in the streets of San Diego. In this post, I will summarize the most interesting themes that stood out from the conference keynotes and sessions, as well as other key takeaways from the week.