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It's Time to Start Talking about Digital Operations

IT operations teams have some of the most stressful jobs in IT. Keeping data centers online, servers running, enterprise systems functioning, and applications performing — all while responding to incidents and requests is hard work. While there are monitoring systems in place to provide visibility and change management practices give IT some control over the network and environment, IT operations teams constantly feel like they are fighting a losing battle.

AlertOps Announces Playbook Automation Focusing on Critical Enterprise Needs in Fast-growing Incident Response Market

CHICAGO, Oct. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Illinois-based digital operations management and real-time collaboration platform AlertOps, announces a renewed focus on Enterprises in the IT Operations Management, DevOps, and SecOps spaces. CIOs and IT leaders need vendors that can merge technology and business scenarios to solve complex collaboration and communication problems.

6 Ways to Avoid the 'Swivel-Chair' Effect

When an incident occurs, do you shudder when either you or your team proceed to open multiple browser tabs for each of your monitoring tools? This is the picture painted by the “swivel-chair” effect, context-switching between tools to gather information needed to determine a path of resolution.

Survey reveals rapidly growing role of IT Service Alerting

In a survey conducted at Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Orlando, Florida, Derdack investigated the state of IT alerting solutions among businesses. The survey is based on 368 participants, randomly selected among IT professionals visiting the expo showfloor. The survey revealed if and if yes, which IT alerting solutions (ITSA / “IT Service Alerting”) businesses use to support their IT operations and to respond faster to major and critical IT incidents.

PagerDuty Drives Digital Operations for Atlassian Users

IT Operations, DevOps, and Developer teams count on PagerDuty’s 300+ integrations to power their end-to-end real-time digital operations, no matter which tool stack they use. Because PagerDuty’s customers span all sizes, industries, and digital maturity levels, our product team is constantly talking to customers about which tools they use for needs like communications, APM, and IT Service Management (ITSM).

Incident Response: Should You Prioritize Quality or Quantity?

There are two common approaches to incident response: qualitative and quantitative. Each approach has its pros and cons. Meanwhile, an enterprise’s decision to take a qualitative or quantitative approach to incident response could have far-flung effects on the business, its employees and its customers.

Monitoring Social Signals to Reduce Alert Fatigue With SignalFx and PagerDuty

“I need to be notified if there’s a significant event ongoing with SignalFx.” This is what I tell my team. However, despite being the CTO of a monitoring company, creating the right set of alerts for me to stay informed of incidents in progress or potential issues was harder than it seemed at first glance. Why?