Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

June 2023

The Buzz for CloudFabrix at Cisco Live

In line with its platform strategy, Cisco launched a vendor-agnostic full-stack observability platform built on OpenTelemetry at its signature North American partner and customer event in Las Vegas, the Cisco Live 2023. With nearly 20,000 attendees, the show was full to the brim with product, strategy and partner announcements. Scroll to the end of the article to learn more about Cisco Full Stack Observability (FSO) and how CloudFabrix is helping bring Cisco’s vision to life.

HEAL's vital AIOPS features

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest topics in the world today, there are so much potential for this technology to help all sorts of Enterprise challenges. HEAL has been a leader in leveraging AI to help IT operations management for years. Our customers include some of the largest banks to the largest telcos in the world, working with them has enabled us to strengthen the AI in our core product to address many of the challenges faced by corporations large and small.

From Expense to Excellence: Transforming ITOps in 2023 through Strategic IT cost optimization

Most organizations view their tech and network operations center and their budgets as simply the cost of running their internal and external IT services. However, through IT cost optimization, you can improve how your Ops center team responds to service issues and save valuable resources too. So, what specifically is IT cost optimization?

How AIOps Revolutionizes Observability for TechOps Teams

Managing over 1000 services and applications is daunting for any organization’s IT and Tech operations team. With a diverse mix of on-premises legacy systems and modern cloud stacks, the sheer volume of activity can overwhelm even the most skilled ITOps teams. The task is made more difficult by the fact that observability is fragmented. On average, organizations depend on 21 systems that produce metrics, logs, traces, and alerts for various services.

The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to AIOps

The traditional approach to operations management is quickly growing extinct in organizations, given the replacement of siloed architectures by integrated systems that can work with the multi-cloud, microservices, Kubernetes and distributed architectures of the modern enterprise. While modernization of IT operations was already in full swing, the pandemic tipped it over. Through the pandemic, IT operations teams were on their toes and continue to be as organizations adopt hybrid work approaches.

Fast Track Video Series: See a demonstration of BigPanda's Incident Intelligence and Automation Platform

BigPanda transforms millions of events into a small number of actionable alerts, no matter where they originate. How? Watch this video to learn more. The video shows how BigPanda allows you to normalize tag values across all tools, aiding event enrichment and correlation. The open integration manager then makes it easy to pre-process the event data helping to filter unwanted events from the feed. The filtering strips out duplicate and low-relevancy events and keeps them from cluttering up the console.

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AIOps as a time, quality and customer enabler

Time is precious and not for sale. Or is it? UMB AG, a leading Swiss IT service and managed services provider, takes the opposite view. Under the company motto "Creating Time", UMB provides its customers with more time which they use for their core business instead of IT administration. A core UMB service is complete support for SAP landscapes, be it on premise, in the UMB data centers or in the cloud. Here, UMB has relied on the artificial intelligence of the Avantra AIOps platform for a good five years in order to manage both its own SAP systems and its customers' as efficiently as possible.

AIOps and DEX: The Future of IT Operations - Infraon

AIOps stands for Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations. It is a new approach to IT operations that uses AI and machine learning to automate tasks, identify and resolve issues, and improve system performance. DEX stands for Digital Employee Experience. It is the way that employees interact with their IT systems and tools. DEX is crucial because it can impact employee productivity, satisfaction, and engagement. If you're looking for ways to improve your IT operations, AIOps and DEX are two of the most promising technologies on the market.

Resolve Actions PRO - Network Ready for Service Checks

Discover how Resolve's customers are using Resolve Actions PRO to completely automate the request for service checks when delivering new network services to their clients. Request for Service Checks are typically performed by the Telco or Communication Service Provider AFTER their network configuration team have provisioned the requested network circuit, but BEFORE it is released to the paying business or client.

AIOps and ITPA: 7 Steps for Using Automation to Prevent Credit Card Fraud

Incident response is one of the most prevalent, time-consuming, and challenging processes in an already complex IT environment. At the height of digital transformation and organizational strategy, businesses are craving success and growth during a time when next to nothing seems certain.

Impact of AI on IT Operations

The rise of Artificial Intelligence in every domain is very apparent, and as a result, the impact of AI on IT operations needs to be comprehended by one and all. AI, or artificial intelligence, is a field of computer science that focuses on developing intelligent machines that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence and decision-making. But what exactly are IT operations?
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Revolutionize Your Enterprise Operations with CloudFabrix Observability Data Modernization

If you research modern observability solutions to manage multi-cloud and hybrid IT environments, you will inevitably learn about OpenTelemetry (OTEL or OTel). The technology has become so rampant that dev or ops professionals still unaware of it are afraid to ask what it actually means. Fret not, as we’ll describe it for you here.

AIOps and Automation: A Conversation Featuring Guest Speaker Carlos Casanova, Forrester Principal Analyst

At the beginning of 2023, I had a great conversation with Carlos Casanova, a Forrester Principal Analyst, in a recent webinar about how AIOps can help drive successful organizational change. According to our conversation, Carlos has divided the AIOps market into two camps: technology-centric (primarily APM/Observability players) and process-centric. PagerDuty is a process-centric solution leveraging multiple technologies.

The 7 IT Automations for Highly Effective Organizations - Load Balancer Sanity Reboot

According to a recent Gartner report, less than 35% of enterprise network activities are automated today. Manual network management can negatively affect the business, creating bottlenecks in provisioning and incident resolution, resulting in poor service delivery to lines of businesses, and reduced uptime. Watch Resolve's Brinda Sreedhar and Brent Hunter as they demonstrate how teams can leverage network automation to automate common use cases such as network management, optimization, and security. Automation can standardize processes and allow network operations teams to operate faster.

My Perspective on CloudFabrix Collaboration with the Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform

I am thrilled that CloudFabrix is a pioneering design partner for Cisco’s Full-Stack Observability Platform (FSO). The Cisco FSO Platform has been designed with a vision of providing a unified observability experience across all application and infrastructure aspects, thereby dismantling silos. The platform’s choice to adopt OpenTelemetry as the protocol for data ingestion via MELT opens up the possibility for comprehensive insights on the complete stack.

Automation in ITOps: An overview

IT networks are the foundation of businesses today. Robust networks enable organizations to conduct seamless business operations and deliver services continuously to customers. To maintain healthy, robust networks, companies depend on ITOps. ITOps refers to the provisioning, monitoring, and management of IT networks to ensure maximum uptime and a better end-user experience.