Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Organizations across a wide range of industries share a common goal: deploy stable applications that support their customers’ needs. Many of these organizations rely on the Datadog platform to get complete visibility into the health and performance of their applications, and we understand how important it is that our services are reliable. That’s why we leverage our own products to ensure that the platform works as expected.

IT is now seen as integral to business rather than a cost center ripe for layoffs. Technology, people, and culture are worth protecting during economic contractions. A recent piece in Silicon Angle by Paul Gillin said out loud what I see firsthand: Cloud spending seems immune to budget reductions during contractions in the economy.

As explained in the earlier “What’s ITOM?” blog, there are various definitions of IT Operations Management (ITOM). This variation has a knock-on for everything related to ITOM, including the relationship between ITOM and DevOps. This issue is further complicated when people and organizations have different views of what DevOps is and isn’t. Hence, we must start with a single definition for ITOM and DevOps.

In July, we released two new enterprise offerings, CivoStack and Edge! CivoStack is an enterprise-ready hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution built for security, performance, and scale. To find out more visit our product page! Edge is our purpose-built Kubernetes hosted infrastructure, designed for on-location edge computing. Created with security, compliance and low latency in mind, find out more here.

The manufacturing industry is one of the biggest industries in the world as almost all other industries are dependent on the manufacturing industry. It plays a crucial role in countries' growth and each manufacturing unit is equipped with lots of assets and equipment that are valuable to the organization. However, lots of manufacturing units do not keep track of their assets and as a result, their assets are lost, and operation delays occur frequently.

Most developers are familiar with the concept of tracking an application's performance. We've all had to undertake our performance debugging at some point. It typically occurs when there is a significant problem with potential cost or user impact. We don't take the time to examine the application's performance in various scenarios till after that. Of course, you can and should monitor various components of the application separately.