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iGaming: Where Incident Management Meets Compliance

At times when players have multiple online choices and competition is fierce, safe betting and social responsibility is at the forefront of brand integrity. In fact, social responsibility has become a competitive edge for leading operators. Enter the era of the regulator. Regulation is now defining both the operator’s brand integrity and the player experience. Are online operators up to the regulation task? Some are, though some are not.

The Rise of FinOps

As usage-based pricing models have continued to increase over the past decade, particularly for technology companies, there has been a major shift in budget planning and resource allocation. Since CFOs can no longer predict or approve each and every expense before they’re incurred, variations in usage costs can often make or break a company’s profitability. For example, two of the most common usage-based costs come from online advertising and IT-related cloud costs.

Effective Communication Between Healthcare Professionals - Best Practices

Effective communication between healthcare professionals is critical for timely and effective operations. In a modern healthcare environment, communication technologies are critical for connecting healthcare professionals with other caretakers and healthcare entities, ensuring the best, most effective, immediate care to patients.

Here's the Top Tool Your IT Department Didn't Know They Needed

COVID-19 has impacted every single aspect of our lives as we knew them. Almost overnight, businesses had to create an entirely new working environment, parents had to become teachers and essential workers become the real heroes. As time goes on, more and more businesses are transitioning to 100% remote workforces.

Static Thresholds vs. Dynamic Thresholds

IT monitoring is a complex field with several approaches to manage monitoring and alerts. Most of the current monitoring solutions provide Static Threshold-Based alerting, where IT Operations staff are notified when resource utilization breaches the defined threshold. The problem with Static Thresholds is that these are manually adjusted, and tuning it to meet the specific environment and needs of an organization is a major challenge for IT Operations teams.

RampChats: IT Leadership in 2020 | Varma Kunaparaju, OpsRamp CEO

There’s never been a better time for sharp and compassionate leadership than the year 2020. IT leaders everywhere are rethinking plans and investments on the fly. Digital initiatives are continuing, although through a more targeted, tactical lens. Meanwhile, infrastructure resiliency and workforce productivity are key enablers to thrive and survive. Join us for a conversation with OpsRamp CEO Varma Kunaparaju to discuss these integral IT leadership topics along with a look at key IT operations management trends.

Keeping your teams and customers in the loop during downtime

Making your organization more transparent is not always an easy process. In our latest blog post, Adam Hammond, shares some tips and tools that can help you get started when it comes to keeping your teams and customers in the loop during downtime.The core message is that you need to make communication a cultural pillar of your organization.

Enable preconfigured alerts with Recommended Monitors

Datadog’s more than 400 integrations collect monitoring data from across your entire stack, giving you full visibility into the health and performance of your applications and infrastructure. Alerts are a crucial part of any monitoring workflow, as they draw your attention to problems in your system before they affect your users. But whether you’re migrating to a new environment or integrating a new technology into your stack, it’s not always clear what data you should alert on.