Headquartered in the Netherlands, BCD Travel manages global business travel. It operates in 109 countries with annual revenues totaling $25 billion and employs nearly 11,000 people worldwide. To meet the current and future needs of a growing virtual workforce, the Network Operations Center (NOC) group at BCD Travel had to adapt and scale its IT infrastructure operations. Additional capabilities were needed to monitor Microsoft 365, Azure, Active Directory, AWS, Teams, and other critical SaaS services.

We have an exciting announcement. Blameless is providing early access to our Microsoft Teams integration. SRE and engineering teams can now resolve incidents faster without leaving the comfort of their favorite messaging tool. With the Blameless incident resolution product, Microsoft Teams users can now reduce toil in routine incident response processes through automation, codify processes with checklists, and craft retrospectives with the ‘add to timeline’ command.

Today, we’re excited to announce a new completely free pricing tier for observIQ: the 3-day free plan. With the observIQ free plan, you can ingest and index up to 3 gigabytes of logs per day with a 3 day rolling retention period.

Arm processors have long been at the center of mobile computing, powering billions of smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and other IoT devices. Today, these processors are beginning to see broader adoption in the cloud as they promise better performance, higher energy efficiency, and lower costs than their x86-based predecessors. Just this week, Oracle announced its new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ampere A1 Compute platform, built on the Ampere Altra Arm processor.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a managed compute platform for containers that was designed to be simple to configure, with opinionated defaults to help users get started quickly. ECS customers can run containerized workloads on either Amazon EC2 instances or the serverless Fargate platform without having to maintain a control plane—and can easily integrate ECS with other AWS resources, like Network Load Balancers, to architect their infrastructure.

Argo Rollouts, part of the Argo project, recently released their 1.0 version. You can see the changelog and more details on the Github release page. If you are not familiar with Argo Rollouts, it is a Kubernetes Controller that deploys applications on your cluster. It replaces the default rolling-update strategy of Kubernetes with more advanced deployment methods such as blue/green and canary deployments.

Today, at our DevOps user conference swampUP, we were thrilled to announce a new groundbreaking innovation from JFrog: The industry’s first Private Distribution Network! Private Distribution Network (PDN) enables enterprises to easily set up and manage a secure, massively-scalable, hybrid distribution network for software updates.

Gartner Market Guide for AIOps Platforms, Pankaj Prasad, Padraig Byrne, Josh Chessman, April 6, 2021 Gartner Market Guides are used extensively by end-users building out their vendor shortlists for I&O leaders focused on Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Management initiatives.

For me, it’s been 20 years since eG entered the US marketplace-at that time, I was one of their first customers and have remained close to them ever since. For a company to survive two decades in an unbelievably complex and competitive performance monitoring landscape is no small feat, and I believe we are still a ‘gem’ in an often confused and fragmented marketplace.

There are some marketing campaigns that just work. They resonate with their audience, they add value, they’re interesting and topical – but they’re also rare. In 2020, the MobileIron (now Ivanti) communications team launched a new campaign to tell the story of the Everywhere Enterprise (a precursor to Ivanti’s Everywhere Workplace).