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IT just got smarter

Every company in the world needs to reduce risk and uncertainty in its IT operations, ITOM. The best way to do that is by combining AI and digital workflows. It’s all about applying machine learning to operational data so that you can generate insights about potential system issues, and then launch automated workflows that resolve problems fast—ideally, before they impact customers. Today’s partnership announcement between IBM and ServiceNow is great news for enterprise customers.

ServiceNow adds Health and Safety Testing app to Safe Workplace suite

At the start of the COVID pandemic, the business world shifted to remote work almost overnight, triggering a new wave of digital transformation. According to a recent study by ServiceNow in partnership with Wakefield, this was a welcome change – 87% of employees believe their company created new and better ways of working.

Integrating TA-Nix with Splunk App for Infrastructure

Previous articles in our series have introduced the Splunk App for Infrastructure (SAI) and provided getting-started guidance for Linux and Windows using native metric-collection tools such as collectd and perfmon. But did you know you can also use your existing Splunk Universal Forwarders (UF’s), together with the Splunk Add-on for Unix and Linux (TA-Nix) to send both the metrics and logs without the need of additional agents?

ManageEngine Positioned in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Tools

ServiceDesk Plus, ManageEngine’s flagship IT service management (ITSM) solution, has been named a Niche Player in this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Tools. The Magic Quadrant offers insights for organizations shopping for an ITSM tool for their business needs. The research names some vendors based on strict inclusion criteria that includes vision, capability, size of operations, number of large customers, and more.

Jaeger Essentials: Distributed Tracing from Dapper to Jaeger

If you are dealing with microservices, serverless architecture, on any other type of distributed architecture, you have probably heard the term “Distributed Tracing.” You may have been wondering what it’s all about, and where should you start, in this post, I’ll tell you about the journey we passed at Duda, from the day we heard about distributed tracing and started to explore whether it will be useful to use it in our company, to the exploration on what is distributed tracing a

Top 5 API monitoring tools

The performance of your APIs is a critical factor that influences the success of a project. After implementation, you will want to constantly monitor your APIs. You may want to monitor response time on a regular basis or you may have more extensive monitoring scenarios. MetricFire specializes in monitoring systems, including APIs. You can use our product with minimal configuration to gain in-depth insight into your environments.