Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

De Watergroep is responsible for the supply of water to more than 3 million customers and hundreds of companies in Belgium. An organisation operating in the public sector, De Watergroep's main goal is to continuously ensure the availability of high-quality drinking water. De Watergroep also is constantly engaged in technological innovation, focusing on keeping distribution costs low, and making maintenance more cost efficient.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the Google Cloud Private Service Connect integration with Elastic Cloud. Elastic Cloud VPC connectivity is now available to all customers across all subscription tiers and cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud).

The OpsRamp Monitor captures the latest buzz around what’s trending in the world of ITOps and related technology, and August was an especially busy month. Let’s dig in.

IT leaders’ experiences with data lakes have been a roller coaster ride since their inception in 2010. To some, that roller coaster ride might resemble the canonical Hype Cycle graphic, trademarked by Gartner to show the maturity curve of technologies in a given category over time. This year’s Hype Cycle for Data Management report was just released, revealing that modern data lakes are poised to exit the Trough of Disillusionment and enter the Slope of Enlightenment in 2022.

Netlify is a Jamstack web development platform that lets customers build and deploy dynamic, highly performant web apps. By uniting popular JavaScript frameworks, developer tools, and APIs into streamlined workflows, Netlify helps teams rapidly spin up and ship common Jamstack use cases, including e-commerce stores, SaaS applications, and corporate sites. Netlify supports these deployments with an integrated CI/CD tool, global multi-cloud edge network, and serverless backend.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a cloud-based compute platform that includes a fully managed Kubernetes control plane in order to simplify cluster operations. AWS introduced EKS Anywhere to bring the operational ease of EKS to organizations that manage on-premise environments (e.g., to meet data sovereignty requirements).

Jaeger and OpenTracing are both open-source projects. Jaeger was originally built by teams at Uber and then open-sourced. The OpenTracing project was also started by teams at Uber, and hence they are compatible with each other. While Jaeger is an end-to-end distributed tracing tool, OpenTracing is a set of APIs and libraries that can be used to instrument your application.

Dynatrace is a publicly-traded global technology company that provides a software intelligence platform based on artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to monitor and enhance application performance, development and security, IT infrastructure, and user experience for enterprises and government organizations around the world. The headquarters of Dynatrace is in Waltham, Massachusetts. Dynatrace's CEO is John Van Siclen.

Since the launch of uptime monitoring, we have received a lot of positive feedback. There were also a couple of much-requested additional features that we hope to address in this huge update.