Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

August 2019

Ensure Optimal Performance and Contextual Visibility with OpsRamp Agents

Monitoring and optimizing enterprise infrastructure is a complex undertaking with mission-critical workloads running across physical, virtual, container, and serverless resources. Agent-based monitoring delivers holistic control, rapid root cause(s) diagnostics, contextual alerting, and automated remediation for multi-generational infrastructure.

Three Insights from the World's Leading IT Organizations

IT is in a state of change on a consistent basis, but never more so than now. With the increasing importance of the digital customer experience across all industries, technology is at a new inflection point in how it can fundamentally impact executive priorities. And while nobody can speak for the direction of IT as a whole, there are a few resources so comprehensive that they’re worth reviewing when they’re released.

Modernizing Infrastructure Monitoring and Management with AIOps

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), with its promises of smarter automation, data ingestion, and actionable insights, is all the rage in the world of IT infrastructure monitoring and management. But how do you fundamentally implement it in an organization that is simultaneously balancing the demands of legacy, cloud, and hyperconverged digital infrastructure?

Controlling the Chaos @Gartner Catalyst, San Diego 2019

Gartner Catalyst Conference 2019 is consistently a great venue for learning, sharing, and connecting. OpsRamp was a silver sponsor at this year’s event and our seven-member contingent had a wonderful time meeting with industry thought leaders, demoing OpsRamp to senior IT executives, and having fun in the streets of San Diego. In this post, I will summarize the most interesting themes that stood out from the conference keynotes and sessions, as well as other key takeaways from the week.

IT Operations in 2020: Five Things to Prepare for - From AIOps to Multi-cloud and More

The following first appeared in Cloud Tech News. The threat of digital disruption has forced senior executives and technology leaders to rethink business models, data assets, and distribution channels, in order to create innovative products and services that will delight customers and overcome nimbler competitors. Over the last decade, enterprises have completely transformed the way they build, deploy, manage, and maintain mission-critical services as a response to increasing digitization.

OpsRamp August 2019: Alert Management, AIOps, Cloud Monitoring, Integrations, APIs

The Summer 2019 release introduced: OpsQ Observed Mode, Learning-Based Auto-Alert Suppression and many more updates to the OpsRamp Platform. This week all OpsRamp customers are being updated to our August 2019 release. Customers and partners should review all the details in our release notes. Here’s a high-level summary of what’s new this month: Observed Mode is now available for Alert Escalation and First Response policies.

How Do Systemic Approaches to IT Operations Impact the Business Culture?

The following first appeared in Dataconomy. How are dynamic IT operations affecting company culture? What do businesses need to understand about data driven AI to successfully drive their operations into the future? Risks that previously stayed inside organizational units, such as IT Ops, now leak across domains, influencing decision-making for the entire company.

[OpsComm July] Helping Technology and Solution Partners Deliver Greater Customer Value with OpsRamp's New Partner Program

In July 2019, OpsRamp launched the new Partner Program to help reseller, service provider, and system integration partners build expertise around multi-cloud infrastructure monitoring and modern incident management. July was also a month of industry recognition, with CRN naming OpsRamp as an emerging vendor in the Cloud category. Our resident experts continued to contribute to industry publications with several articles and podcasts.

Gain Real-Time Insights for Hybrid Infrastructure with the OpsRamp Gateway

The 2019 RightScale State of Cloud report shows that 45% of IT leaders voted for hybrid infrastructure as their top operational priority (public cloud comes second at 31%). With enterprises expected to use a combination of legacy and modern infrastructure for the foreseeable future, how do digital operations teams drive greater availability and proactive system performance for mission-critical services running on hybrid architectures?

Just-in-Time Access via Secure Remote Consoles: The Right Level of Access for Improved Enterprise Compliance

OpsRamp controls and tracks access to modern hybrid infrastructure with secure remote consoles. Remote consoles help IT pros gain access to distributed resources and execute tasks on the target device/resource. All remote sessions are recorded for playback so that IT teams can use these session recordings for audit compliance, change management, and training.