Recently Gartner released their top tech trends for 2015 with analytics taking a central role. Further Gartner reports and analysis emphasize the growing importance that analytics is having for IT in their ongoing support of the business.
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Check out the thought leaders for the fast rising area of IT operations analytics (ITOA). These industry influencers are playing a key role in forming the next stage in the evolution of IT operations
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Unplanned data center outages still present a difficult and costly challenge for organizations. How pervasive is downtime and outages in government data centers?
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Cloud provider Joyent suffered an outage, causing severe inconvenience to customers. Ironically for an operation of this size, Joyent's data center appears to have gone offline due to human error by a single administrator.
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The National Weather Service Warning System recently faced a severe outage as their systems went down just as massive thunderstorms, some spawning life-threatening tornadoes, erupted across the country and was unable to issue critical warnings about weather conditions, following an upgrade to the system.
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How should IT operations take a new look at change management and release management to better address the state of change in today's IT organizations.
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It's great to get outside validation about how we are doing. So we're proud to announce that Red Herring named us to their "Top 100 Technology Companies" list.
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IT Operations Analytics solutions can offer better visibility into the exploding complexity of today's technology services. Gartner recently dedicated a full webinar to explore IT Operations Analytics. In this post we share some of the exciting insights we discovered in this presentation.
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While society in the Lego Movie sang Everything is Awesome as a distraction from living under strict control, to keep your production environment available, your data center can't be locked down in the face of numerous and often unexpected changes. So how do you stay agile and meet dynamic business demands while maintaining stability?
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Google and most of its services were offline for 30 minutes on January 24th. Following an investigation, Google reported that a configuration issue sparked the outage. How can you best stay on top of the many configuration changes in your data center, and keep your production environment available?
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