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The vast majority of IT infrastructure problems relate to the network. Afterall, most of IT infrastructure IS the network. Makes sense. But its immensity and complexity make the network a bear to troubleshoot and root cause analysis as tricky as finding the proverbial needle in the network haystack.

Monitoring tools share alerts in a variety of formats, with inconsistent data points and crucial information missing. That leaves you and your team stuck in the middle, trying to analyze and act on incomplete or irrelevant alerts requiring lots of manual intervention, time, and energy to communicate and coordinate during incident response. Standardizing your alert payloads is a key starting point if you want to improve your alert correlation.

When you have questions about your software, telemetry data is there for you. Over time, you make friends with your data, learning what queries take you right to the error you want to see, and what graphs reassure you that your software is serving users well. You build up alerts based on those errors. You set business goals as SLOs around those graphs.

In the current competitive landscape, organizations are constantly pressured to increase efficiency, flexibility, and scale in response to market demands. Artificial Intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is emerging as a pivotal technology to help companies meet these imperatives and secure a competitive edge.

Remote server administration is a crucial aspect of managing and maintaining a network infrastructure. It allows system administrators to control and monitor servers from a remote location, eliminating the need for physical access to each server. One utility that greatly simplifies remote server administration is the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT).

In the dynamic landscape of modern IT infrastructure, vSphere stands out as a key player in virtualization. At its core, vSphere is more than just a virtualization platform; it’s a game-changer in data center management. From seamless resource allocation to enhanced scalability, vSphere offers a suite of features that redefine how businesses handle their IT environments.

We are thrilled to announce the addition of a powerful new Enterprise plugin in the Grafana ecosystem: the Sumo Logic Enterprise data source plugin for Grafana. You can now easily connect Sumo Logic to your Grafana instance and correlate your log data with telemetry from all your data sources in one unified Grafana dashboard.

Every successful IT strategy begins with IT procurement. You can't manage IT assets within an organization without purchasing them first, and this process involves a set of well-designed steps. The activities involved here are part of the broader framework of IT Financial Management (ITFM), and play a pivotal role in aligning financial decisions and planning across departments within an organization. Also, companies around the world are ready to keep increasing IT procurement.