With the aim to cut down development cycles and time to market, increase the frequency of deployment and ensure high-quality software releases, it is no surprise that DevOps has come to be a popular approach to application development.

SquaredUp 5.4 is here and it’s got some brilliant new features and upgrades to help you troubleshoot and find answers faster than ever. You’ll find the upgrades across all three SquaredUp editions – for SCOM, Azure, and the free Community Edition. Here are the highlights in the new release: Check out our release webinar for a detailed walkthrough and demo.

When it comes to sophisticated software like System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), where a structure is vital to maintain your environment, your naming conventions are the key to long-term success. Many different people are involved in the process of monitoring. To maintain documentation and procedures, you must define how you should name parts used in SCOM. Everything from the management group name to groups, management packs, override management packs, views, and folders.

As cloud-native solutions are gaining recognition and becoming a common approach to developing applications, more attention has been directed towards container orchestration and Kubernetes. Both concepts within the realm of IT have been around for a while. Thanks to the technologies' maturing and cloud adoption, they've recently gained significant attention. We all know that software containers are far from traditional shipping containers, yet they function similarly: they standardize and combine.

The Big SCOM Survey 2021 results are available and we are happy to see that at organizations the use of SCOM is still expected to grow according to more than half of the respondents. It is a survey executed by SCOMathon. But above all, our Citrix Ready Management Pack solution for monitoring Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops scored as second-most used 3rd-party Management Pack of all 3rd-party Management Packs out there.

Today OpsLogix announces the upcoming release of their new Kubernetes Management Pack. This product is designed to help organizations monitor their Kubernetes clusters using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The management pack provides comprehensive monitoring of all aspects of your Kubernetes environment, from individual nodes and pods to entire clusters.

Every business is different, and every IT environment has its own set of challenges. Customized SCOM Management Packs are created to meet the monitoring and automation requirements of your company's critical applications. OpsLogix offers a wide range of off-the-shelf monitoring products, but for companies working with niche applications, these are not always applicable.

If you’re a SCOM Admin these are the questions you should be asking yourself when it comes to measuring your monitoring success! So, here’s how to tackle these challenges and get the best out of SCOM.

In today’s monitoring world most SCOM admins are pulling data from a range of tools and applications, as well as cloud platforms. It can be difficult to sift through all this data, let alone distill it down into a useful format. SCOM is a great resource for making this happen, and if it’s done well can be a superb monitoring hub for your other applications. But how do you get SCOM to consume data from other sources?

Saving time, money, and resources while keeping your IT infrastructure better monitored than ever – that’s what one of our customers in the refinery and base oil industry did. By implementing our Monitoring as a Service, they managed to turn unstructured monitoring into high quality, consistent such. Their biggest pain point was the lack of time allocated for monitoring activities.