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The SharePoint Online Management Shell (SPO Management Shell) is an indispensable tool for administrators seeking to harness the full potential of SharePoint Online. Unlike the standard user interface, the SPO Management Shell offers advanced users granular control over their SharePoint environments. Whether you’re managing a complex network of sites or automating routine tasks, the SPO Management Shell provides the flexibility and power to streamline your operations.

Anyone who has been reading this blog or who has worked at Cortex can tell you that we are quite passionate about Developer Experience (DevEx). But just what is DevEx, and how does it relate to onboarding new developers? It's a fair question, since the word can mean different things in different contexts. We are even on the record as saying that definitions are necessarily vague to allow for DevEx being inherently subjective to a given environment.

Part two of a series on platform engineering myths, covering how it’s built, what it does, and what it doesn’t do.

It’s no secret that enterprise networks have grown more distributed and complex over the past few years. On top of this, conventional network monitoring tools are struggling to keep up with the rapid growth of IoT, new tech advancements, and intricate network architectures. A recent study by Enterprise Management Associates underscores this challenge, revealing that nearly 74% of IT organizations plan to replace their existing network management tools within the next two years.

The infrastructure and services running on public cloud computing services like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) produce massive volumes of logs every day. An organization’s log data provides details about their entire IT environment in real-time, or at any point in time in history.

Imagine one night you receive a notification from your team member that a critical production problem has caused chaos in your application. There is a sudden drop in sales as customers are unable to access the application and reporting issues relating to the same. Now, when you reach the office to fix the issue, you demand the team to run through all the files.

Unplanned downtime can cost large enterprises almost $1.5 million per hour, according to a recent survey by Enterprise Management Associates. AIOps offers a solution. With an effective AIOps platform in place, you can decrease the frequency and cost of outages by 30% and reduce their duration to under an hour. AIOps platforms apply AI and machine learning to complex IT data to enhance and automate IT operations.