Salary Finance is a UK-based financial well-being employee benefit program. Over the last seven years, the company grew from a startup to a scaleup, earning rave reviews along the way from its more than 4,000 customers. However, with fast growth also comes natural growing pains. As their customer base expanded, so did the number of incidents they experienced, which also became harder to diagnose due to lack of visibility into their increasingly complex environment.
CloudOps, or Cloud Operations, is quickly becoming the standard for managing IT operations in the cloud computing ecosystem. By transforming traditional IT operations to harness the full potential of the cloud, businesses are experiencing greater automation, collaboration, agility, and resilience. This article is a deep dive into the concept of CloudOps, its core components, the advantages it offers, and the steps necessary to implement it effectively within an organization.
If you wanted to switch from one project management tool to another, what would happen to your data? As more and more business operations undergo digital transformations and move online, organizations have become more reliant than ever on their digital data. Many take for granted that their data is their own and that they can take it with them if they change tools. But for those who rely on third-party tools, control of data may not be so simple.
It’s one of the main use cases fit for network automation: the load balancer sanity reboot. Not to be left to manual executions, this long, tiresome task creates too much possibility for errors. Negative effects like unnecessary time and money spent are detriments that organizations can avoid, simply by automating the types of tasks—like load balancer sanity reboots—that include loads of repetitive steps.
In previous blogs, we explored how Elastic Observability can help you monitor various AWS services and analyze them effectively: One of the more heavily used AWS container services is Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service). While there is a trend toward using Fargate to simplify the setup and management of ECS clusters, many users still prefer using Amazon ECS with EC2 instances.
Cindy works long hours managing a SecOps team at UltraCorp, Inc. Her team’s days are spent triaging alerts, managing incidents, and protecting the company from cyberattacks. The workload is immense, and her team relies on a popular SOAR platform to automate incident response including executing case management workflows that populate cases with relevant event data and enrichment with IOCs from their TIP, as well execute a playbook to block the source of the threat at the endpoint.
