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From Alert Madness to Incident Response Nirvana: An AIOps and ITPA Strategy

Complex environments are notorious for generating a high volume of alerts. For IT teams, this deluge presents a critical, time-consuming challenge. Managing alerts and incident response keeps these busy professionals under constant pressure and risks alert fatigue. Nonstop “noise” can desensitize people and actually lead to missed or ignored alerts—risking delayed responses and downtime. These high stakes make handling alerts a key security and productivity issue.

The 7 IT Automations for Highly Effective Organizations: Password Reset

In today’s digital world, we have logins for most everything that needs to be done online. With so many passwords to remember, its easy to end up in a situation where passwords are forgotten. Most organizations report Password Reset is one of the top requests that come into their service desk. According to Forrester large US-based organizations allocate ~1 million annually for password reset related support cost. Getting locked out also has a siginificant loss in productivity.

Platform Engineering vs. DevOps: Yes, There's a Difference - Here's Why It Matters

If there’s a difference between platform engineering vs. DevOps, it’s not immediately obvious. The terms have been thrown around in conversation for long enough that it’s tempting to think of them as either the same thing or as competing concepts. So what is the difference between platform engineering vs. DevOps? Are you “doing DevOps” when you create a developer platform?

Securing a DKP Cluster - Logging, Monitoring, & Compliance

This video discusses securing your D2iQ Kubernetes Platform clusters, and the importance of Logging, Monitoring, and Compliance to cluster security. Join Lauren to learn why she says, "...If you don't know what your assets are, where they are, and how they are performing in real-time, you have no hopes of securing your cluster!"

Scripting vs Automation: Which way is best?

Here at D2iQ we feel your pain! In a fast-paced world where doing your day to day is hard enough, understanding why you would want to automate, yet alone finding the time, is a daunting challenge. Check out this short video to see some of the benefits and why putting in that up-front expense to get to true Cloud Native development and operations is worth the effort and pays off well in the future.

IT Automation: A Key Strategy for Maintaining Customer and Employee Satisfaction

The current state of the economy has left many companies in a state of uncertainty, with 58% of business leaders feeling the pressure of too many initiatives to be supported without the right resources. While these companies look for ways to stay competitive and, in many instances, to accomplish more with less, compromising on delivering high-quality experiences is not an option, particularly in a world where fast, seamless digital experiences have become the norm.

The 7 IT Automations Use-Case Series: Employee Onboarding

New hires today are expected to hit the ground running from their start date, especially in this landscape where businesses are under pressure to deliver high efficiency and high productivity. Yet, the onboarding process to set up the new employee up with systems, apps, and critical access remains broken and highly cumbersome at most companies. It’s time HR and IT team up to fix this to enable HR to focus on high value onboarding experiences, IT to ensure enterprise security compliance is always met, and for new team members to be ready to start from day 1.