IT Administration
PagerDuty Bets on AIOps and Automation to Simplify IT Management
PagerDuty this week made generally available an artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform that leverages the data model embedded in its incident management software to reduce the amount of time required ...
Fiberplane Adds Open Source Libraries to Automatically Collect Metrics
Fiberplane today added an ability to automatically collect metrics in real-time and make them accessible either via its namesake notebook software for debugging infrastructure or an open source Grafana dashboard. Fiberplane CEO ...
Vega Cloud Commits to Reducing Cloud Costs
Vega Cloud today made a commitment to save customers at least 10% on their cloud infrastructure spending or it won’t charge for its software. Vega Cloud's software automates cloud infrastructure management. The ...
Cisco Streamlines Licensing Options for IT Operations Platform
Cisco has reduced the number of licensing options for its Intersight operations platform to two as part of an effort to make the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing on-premises and cloud computing ...
Zenhub Brings Issues Management to Project Management Platform
Zenhub today announced it is adding an issue management module that makes it simpler for stakeholders to collaborate with developers on application development projects without having to log into a GitHub repository ...
IT Teams Need to Do More With Increased Budgets
A survey of 600 C-suite and IT decision-makers published today found the majority of organizations are trying to make increased IT budgets stretch even further as costs rise and the number of ...
Five Tips for Moving IT Ops to DevOps
The era of siloed development and operations functions is rapidly coming to an end. The concept of DevOps has already closed the gap between IT and developers, but as I speak with ...
Technical Debt is a Major Threat to Innovation
A survey published today suggested that technical debt is starting to take a heavier toll as IT environments continue to become more complex to manage. The survey of 400 IT leaders at ...
Watching the Watchers: Solving the Problem of Meta-Permissions
The move to the cloud and microservices has introduced new challenges in managing permissions. Software has been broken down into small, independently-deployable microservices, each with its own unique set of permissions. These ...
Atlassian Extends Automation Framework’s Reach
Mike Vizard | | Atlassian, Atlassian Jira, automation, Confluence, project management, software developmentAtlassian this week extended its namesake automation framework to include its Confluence collaboration software. In addition, it's now possible to automatically create bi-directional branches in Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab platforms from within ...
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
Richi Jennings | | azure, BGP, DNS, gitops, it-as-code, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, MSFT, Office 365, outage, The Long ViewAll of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed ...
Cloudflare Adds Digital Experience Monitoring to CDN Portfolio
Mike Vizard | | cdn, cloud platform, Cloudflare, content delivery network, digital experience, IT services, ITSMAt an online CIO Week event, Cloudflare today added a digital experience monitoring capability to a portfolio of services layered on top of its core content delivery network (CDN). Corey Mahan, director ...
