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What’s at Stake With IT Failures?

Downtime and outages are events that are appearing with greater frequency and fiercer results. System failures are not just a challenge and frustration for organizations, but carry high stakes and broad costs. What is at risk when your systems go down? Read more...

Survey: 81% of IT Pros Expect IT Analytics to Finally Address IT’s Big Data Challenge

Survey results from webinar held with Forrester Research: IT operations professionals believe that IT Operations Analytics solutions will finally put to rest 15 years of chronic change and configuration management challenges. Read more...

15 Years of Chronic Change and Configuration Challenges

News headlines have remained consistent over the last 15 years. Change and configuration management challenges are chronic and these challenges can lead to critical operational issues that can even reach the news headlines. Read more...

Misconfiguration Strikes Again Setting Off Google Apps Outage

Google Apps went down this week, frustrating many users and organizations. Following an investigation, Google reported that a misconfiguration was source of the outage. How can you best stay on top of the many configuration changes in your data center, and keep your production environment available? Read more...

Coming up with a new configuration and change management plan

Change is a constant in IT operations yet has become more frequent, growing in complexity. Despite all the experience in dealing with change, doing so gracefully and efficiently is still one of the most challenging aspects of IT operations. Are you ready to effectively support change in your IT environments? Read more...

Weekly IT Highlights on Virtualization, Analysts, DevOps, and trends for Cloud and More

As Friday comes around, we want to recap some of the best stuff from our blog on Virtualization, Analysts, DevOps and trends for cloud and any other topics that we found interesting and shared over the week. Read more...

Chaos in IT Operations

Survey reveals that the IT operations tools most organizations rely on are generally considered ineffective, and most of the processes used are labor-intensive. How can IT operations management be more effective? Read more...

POWER100 - Top IT Management Analysts

POWER100 - Top IT Management AnalystsCheck out our POWER100, a handpicked list of analysts focused on IT Management. These analysts have a tremendous influence on the IT Management segment and on IT in general.
 
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Weekly IT Highlights on Hybrid Cloud, DevOps, IT Analytics and trends for Cloud and More

As Friday comes around, we want to recap some of the best stuff from our blog on Hybrid Cloud, DevOps, IT Analytics and trends for cloud and any other topics that we found interesting and shared over the week. Read more...

Super Bowl Outage Blamed on Configuration Change...OK. Not Really

Super Bowl 2013 will be long remembered for innovative commercials and a 34 minute outage, which may have turned the tide of the game itself. While unplanned or unauthorized changes to IT infrastructure configuration wasn't really responsible for this outage, this event drives home the tremendous costs and consequences of outages for an organization. Read more...