Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

October 2020

Lessons Learned in CI/CD Transformation

Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a methodology which helps technology teams deliver higher-quality software faster through automation. At OpsRamp, we have embarked on the journey of CI/CD transformation and have seen tremendous change in the way we build and release our products. Michael Fisher, Group Product Manager, OpsRamp explained the journey and lessons learned in this process during a recent webinar.

Hiring and Managing IT During a Crisis

Martha Heller is CEO of Heller Search Associates, an IT leadership executive recruiting firm. Martha is a frequent keynote speaker at IT industry events and author of two books: The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership, and Be the Business: CIOs in the New Era of IT. She spoke about IT career trends on a recent webinar.

OpsRamp Using OpsRamp for Saas Ops Excellence

Like many of its customers, OpsRamp needs to ensure 24 x 7 availability and performance for key services and applications. Challenges include how to effectively manage multiple pods across different geographies, how to control access and security, and how to ease alert management and improve metrics such as response and resolution times. In this live video discussion, OpsRamp’s director of cloud operations, PVV Raju, shares best practices and tips from our internal use of OpsRamp.

OpsRamp Integrates with Amazon EventBridge for Better Automation

Enterprises have relied on public cloud providers to shift and transform their legacy workloads using hyperscale infrastructure, but it is vital to ensure that business-critical services are running optimally. Cloud events help developers and operators understand how their workloads hosted on different cloud services are performing at any given time.

Gartner: What You Need for Cloud-Centric Monitoring

Enterprise IT organizations which are not doing anything in the public cloud are becoming a rarity. A global survey conducted by O’Reilly prior to the onset of Covid-19 found that 88% of organizations are using cloud in one form or another, and public cloud dominates. Several surveys since March have shown that public cloud adoption is accelerating and with it a preference for multi-cloud computing.

Avoiding Disaster With AIOps

AIOps is one of the fastest-growing categories in the IT operations management (ITOM) software space. With increasing demands on IT, the ability to leverage AI is critical to successful operations. The adoption statistics are quite staggering. Gartner reports that by 2022, 40% of large enterprises will use AIOps tools to support or replace monitoring and service desk tasks.

Monitoring Google Anthos Infrastructure with OpsRamp

Modern applications are platform-agnostic which means that they can run seamlessly in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Google Anthos, released in 2019, is an application management platform that allows developers and IT to build and run applications across on-prem and public clouds (including competing cloud providers). Hosted on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Anthos helps organizations create enterprise-grade containerized applications that are secure and portable across multiple venues.

Five Reasons to Switch from Broadcom DX Infrastructure Manager to OpsRamp

In November 2018, chip manufacturer Broadcom announced the completion of its $18.9 billion purchase of infrastructure software company, CA Technologies. While CA’s enterprise software division has seen many changes after the acquisition, the products in their AIOps and Observability portfolio consist of operational intelligence, application performance management, network monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring.

Avoiding Disaster with AIOps

There’s a growing acceptance that artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is critical to maintain uptime and service levels as infrastructure has become more complex and users more demanding. AI-enhanced tools can filter and manage data from systems efficiently, and discover patterns that can solve issues faster and even prevent them. But as with any new technology there are risks that threaten ROI and adoption.

Masaf Dawood on Google Cloud's Compelling Enterprise Story

Google Cloud has been gaining some noticeable traction in recent months: 43% growth in Q2 is nothing to sniff about, especially during a global recession. Masaf Dawood is director of Google Cloud services with SpringML, a premier Google Cloud partner with specialties in application development, data analytics, machine learning and marketing analytics. SpringML works exclusively with Google Cloud and has worked on 200 engagements with Google since the consultancy was founded in 2015.