Last week’s container event of the year, KubeCon, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, attracted more than 12,000 attendees to the San Diego convention center. While there, I attended numerous sessions but I also spent a good portion of time chatting with DevOps professionals, Kubernetes practitioners, and vendors to understand the practicalities behind deploying and managing containerized workloads and microservices.

It’s that time of year again. If you work in IT, you might be more excited about the upcoming AWS re: Invent show than attending holiday dinners and parties. The prognosticators are out in full force, foreshadowing what the cloud leader will unveil. The OpsRamp team has a few of our own predictions, as we head to Las Vegas. By the way – did you know that OpsRamp has integrations with AWS for monitoring and management??

While infrastructure and application discovery for datacenter environments is a mature discipline, real-time discovery of public cloud and cloud native services requires an innovative approach. Digital operations teams have to not only onboard invisible and short-lived infrastructure at scale but also ensure visibility, track consumption, and pinpoint service dependencies across dynamic multi-cloud environments.

In enterprise IT, technical debt comes in the form of legacy hardware and software, inefficient maintenance processes, lack of scalability or resiliency, poor user experiences, outdated communications or code that's inadequately maintained.

At its recent conference in Barcelona, the third in its 2019 Symposium series, Gartner analysts spoke of how companies need to win in the turns to survive and thrive in the digital era. That means looking beyond apps and cloud, to disruptive forces in the digital economy as guideposts for IT strategy.

The OpsRamp Fall 2019 Release introduced alert similarity reinforced correlation, real-time discovery for GCP platform resources and many more updates to the OpsRamp Platform. OpsRamp customers can now access all the new features introduced in the November 2019 update. Customers and partners should review all the details in our release notes. Here’s a summary of what’s new this month.

Today on the blog we feature a conversation with Jonathan Reichental, an award-winning former CIO who now travels the world to speak, teach, and consult on emerging trends including the fourth industrial revolution, urban innovation, the future of cities, and blockchain technology. We got his take on cloud adoption and digital disruption in government.