Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Scott Sauber, Director of Engineering at Lean TECHniques Inc., covers the challenges and benefits of source controlling database changes, including a demo of Flyway.

Cost analysis and allocation tools like CloudHealth, CloudCheckr, and Cloudability play an important role in many organizations’ FinOps journeys by assisting with keeping Finance informed, enabling forecasting, and driving accountability. These tools may also help provide visibility and direction around long-term purchases like Savings Plans and RIs. But, slicing and dicing your cloud costs is only the tip of the FinOps iceberg: 85%+ of your cloud savings potential lies beyond refining how you buy cloud services. You also need to optimize what you’re actually purchasing.

Rob sits down with Charity Majors to discuss the journey to creating Honeycomb, business building practices, and the importance of proper CI/CD and monitoring. Charity gives us the latest insights on observability and the necessities for engineering team success. What metrics are meaningful for your team to measure? Which ones are not? Tune in today to find out. Watch, learn, and leave us a comment with your thoughts, questions, or ideas for future podcast episodes.

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly powerful and ubiquitous. This coupled with the rapid pace of AI adoption has many organizations scrambling to adopt some form of enterprise AI. However, many experts also believe that while AI adoption has accelerated in recent times, it may be moving too fast. In a bid not to get left behind, many organizations jump onto the AI bandwagon without fully understanding how it fits in with their organizational strategy. Many business leaders also believe that some level of control and regulations is required to ensure AI solutions achieve their full potential.

A brief walkthrough of how to use the Code function in Cribl LogStream.

OpenTelemetry has the ability to democratize integrations between so many programs, says Morgan McLean, Director of Product Management for Observability and co-founder of OpenTelemetry. The advantages for Splunk and our Observability Cloud are numerous.

In this session of ManageEngine's Masterclass 2020, we will help you uncover and extract the hidden value in your service desk data to understand customer needs, manage costs, and deliver high-quality customer service. Learn how Advanced Analytics for ServiceDesk Plus can help you run your IT like a business.

Shadow IT is, at best, an organizational distraction; and at worst, a team of people working at cross-purposes to the business and causing harm. But if shadow IT is such a bad thing, why does it still happen in so many organizations? In under 10 minutes, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg break down what shadow IT is, why it’s bad for the organization even if it seems to be “getting things done,” and how the cycle can be broken with a robust, mature, responsive service management solution and process.