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What's New in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2022 UR1

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) has been a cornerstone for IT professionals and system administrators for years. It provides essential tools for monitoring and managing an organization’s IT infrastructure health, performance, and security. With each new release, Microsoft introduces enhancements and updates to make SCOM even more powerful and user-friendly.

Why you should monitor Kubernetes in SCOM

Why you should monitor Kubernetes in SCOM Kubernetes is one of the most prominent container orchestration platforms available today. As cloud-native and container solutions gain attention, so does Kubernetes. With the new incline towards cloud-native application development, there is a big focus on software development and how to migrate to the cloud. What cannot be forgotten is what needs to be taken care of once the applications are up and running – monitoring.

Advancing Seamless IT Infrastructure Monitoring

We hope you’ve enjoyed a fantastic summer and are all eager to gear up for the next phase of advancing seamless IT infrastructure, services, and performance monitoring. As a seasoned SCOM administrator, you know the intricacies of orchestrating IT infrastructure monitoring. The landscape has evolved dramatically in recent years, with an exponential surge in monitoring alongside the expected depth of observations.

Dashboard Stories: Gamified bug bash tracking

We love a ‘bug bash’ here at SquaredUp, so we regularly encourage our developers and testers to down tools on major features to go after smaller issues that have been 'bugging' them. This dashboard helps us measure the success of the teams latest bug bash and adds a little gamification for some competitive fun! Using the Jira plugin in SquaredUp, we can stream our data on demand into this centralized dashboard for the whole team. Now we can easily see how we're doing against our target, without having to trawl through Jira.

Dashboard Stories: Observing Garden Irrigation water usage with SQL

This useful garden irrigation dashboard built in SquaredUp displays a series of data on system availability, water usage and weather conditions. Using the SQL plugin, it pulls data from the Arduino device, allowing me to quickly visualize water usage across any timeframe I choose. This means that I can spot irregularities in usage, which could indicate a leak. I chose to use SquaredUp dashboards for this project, as even though I’m only working with simple data, once you surface it there’s a lot you can do with it!
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VMware Horizon Monitoring

Regardless of whether you are a system administrator or an end-user, convenient and secure access to essential apps and desktops is essential to perform your tasks efficiently. Due to the new imperative of working remotely, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions such as VMware Horizon, Citrix VDI, and many more have significantly boosted over the past few years. In fact, the VDI market is expected to grow from about $14 billion in 2022 to about $50 billion by 2030. Today we want to take a closer look at VMware Horizon, the importance of having proper monitoring, and what options to choose from.