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“Have you tried shutting it off and turning it back on?” While AIOps won’t likely remove this query from our vocabulary any time soon, technology is certainly here to take on a bulk of the heavy lifting. For all-sized companies, service calls are still going to continue to pour in. And, there’s no sign of any of the world’s CompTIA certs going to waste in the near future. Still, thanks to AIOps, many jobs within the world of IT will become more streamlined.

In today’s lightning fast digital age, I&O leaders across the globe are finding themselves under increasing pressure to find new and innovative ways for improving efficiency, optimizing costs and delivering fast, quantifiable and sustainable value. In order to achieve these goals, these leaders must not only be willing to adopt cutting-edge technologies, but be strategic about what tools in particular they choose to pursue and how they should prioritize them in terms of potential ROI.

Amazon CloudWatch has recently launched Metrics Insights (Preview) — a fast, flexible, SQL-based query engine that enables you to identify trends and patterns across millions of operational metrics in real-time. With Metrics Insights, you can easily query and analyze your metrics to gain better visibility into the health and performance of your infrastructure and large scale applications.

It takes a lot to run a modern business. From websites to technical solutions and everything in between, it’s no surprise we need better monitoring systems to make sure everything is operational. With multiple gears turning at once on any given platform, incidents are inevitable—especially for companies that are constantly growing and innovating. And the impact of incidents can affect user services, operations, and even business reputation.

AWS re:Invent 2021 was an especially unique event, as it was the industry’s first big in-person event since the start of the pandemic. After nearly two years of virtual events, being able to walk the expo halls in-person was an adjustment to say the least.

The Arm architecture dates back to Acorn Computers’ BBC Micro in 1981. The BBC Micro was a conventional machine, yet it ran nearly twice as fast as its contemporaries, such as the Apple II. About the same time, research on a microprocessor design based on the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) demonstrated that simple chip designs could easily outperform the current high-end 32-bit offerings.

NinjaOne released our custom field functionality in 2021, adding a new level of flexibility, customization, and automation power to our platform. Custom fields are an advanced feature that requires set up to use, but once you start, the power and flexibility of this feature is almost limitless. In part one of this guide, we’ll walk you through two powerful use cases for custom fields in NinjaOne.

SAP’s products, technology and development are rapidly changing. Once focused on on premise applications, SAP’s focus on rapid innovation in cloud technologies brings exciting, transformative change to your business. But it has also upended the way these new business critical applications need to be supported and administered.

What makes the Avantra platform incredibly powerful for our customers is the ability to extend the standard checks and automations available with your custom business logic. While Avantra has an opinion of the key things to monitor in your landscape, we often hear of our customers building business critical checks and automations to extend Avantra and add features to look after the things your business cares about.

As all of us at WebPageTest and Catchpoint celebrate one year of partnership, Jeena James, WebPageTest, sat down for a Q&A with Dritan Suljoti, Chief Product and Technology Officer and co-founder, Catchpoint, to look at the key milestones from the last year, and ahead at what's next! Hope you enjoy!