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ServiceNow joins the prestigious Fortune 500 list

On behalf of ServiceNow Chairman and CEO Bill McDermott, and our executive leadership team, I’m honored to share that ServiceNow has been named to the prestigious Fortune 500® list for the first time in company history, joining an elite group of the largest companies in the United States. Since placement on this list is based on fiscal year revenues, ServiceNow’s inaugural appearance is evidence of our continued growth trajectory.

What Is Root Cause Analysis?

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a systematic process designed to uncover the fundamental, underlying issues that lead to IT incidents. These 'root causes' are often masked by surface-level symptoms, making them challenging to identify without a systematic approach. Root Cause Analysis serves as a metaphorical excavation, drilling past the initial problems to discover deeper, hidden issues.

A holistic approach to securing Spark-based data engineering

Apache Spark is an open-source toolkit that helps users develop parallel, distributed data engineering and machine learning applications and run them at scale. In this webinar, Rob Gibbon – product manager, and Massimiliano Gori – senior information security lead, will survey the state of big data security best practices and outline both high level architectures and pragmatic steps that you can take to secure your Spark applications – wherever they may be running.

ITIL Service Strategy Definition, Processes, and Implementation

The ITIL Service strategy is the first stage in the service lifecycle. It paves the way for the following four. This stage contains the guidelines for organizations to set out a solid strategy for their IT services, position them in the appropriate place in the service portfolio, and ensure they add value from a financial and experience perspective. This article will define service strategy, its purpose, and examine in detail the five processes that comprise it.

Understanding the network edge and edge networking

Generally speaking, a network ‘edge’ is the boundary between two separate networks - where one network ends and another begins. Edges are important, primarily from a security standpoint as they define the jurisdictions owned by different parties, and ‘the edge’ has become a more popular topic of conversation recently through trends which see network resources moved from centralised locations to network edges to make them closer to the end user.

Introducing powerful APIs and webhooks for Grafana Incident

Grafana Incident, Grafana’s powerful incident response tool, comes with a range of integrations out of the box, including Zoom and Google Meet spaces, GitHub and JIRA issues, and even a Google Doc template for post-incident review documents. However, every team has unique needs and workflows, and you may need to integrate with other systems not currently on our roadmap or even use your own in-house tools.

Do you think of software developer toil like Atlassian, LaunchDarkly, Okteto and Sleuth?

Do you think of software developer toil like Atlassian, LaunchDarkly, Okteto and Sleuth? Hear how leaders from these SaaS companies deal with toil on their teams. Toil for software developers includes repetitive tasks that could be automated, things that waste time and prevent you from investing in the future. These manual processes weigh down developers and the software development process, and can lead to burnout.