WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 25, 2021 — OnPage Corporation, a Boston-based incident management and pager replacement company, today unveiled its fiscal 2020 year in review. OnPage delivered another year of strong results considering the uncertain situation brought upon the world with COVID-19. Past year results were driven by current customers that rely on OnPage for critical notifications and had to enlarge their deployment.

In the reliability era, many services are migrating from in-house servers to the cloud. The cloud model allows your service to capitalize on the benefits of large hosting providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. These servers can be more reliable than in-house servers for reasons including: However, as with all things, cloud providers present their own risks and challenges as well. Teams will want to take advantage of the benefits while accounting for these limitations.

IT incident management is a fundamental operational process designed to ensure rapid service restoration. This process is typically assigned to the help desk but is also very much entrenched in the day-to-day of DevOps. When incident management goes right, service is restored quickly and the impact on productivity, continuity, and customer satisfaction is minimal.

In today's "always on" world, Reliability is a primary business KPI. Plant the culture of Reliability by implementing these 7 simple tips to build a solid SRE team in your organization. Many of today’s hottest jobs didn’t exist at the turn of the millennium. Social media managers, data scientists, and growth hackers were never heard of before. Another relatively new job role in demand is that of a Site Reliability Engineer or SRE. The profession is quite new.

To incentivize reliability in your platform, there should be shared goals across your team to measure & quantify the capabilities of your product/service along with customer experience. Define the path of "Always-On" services by understanding few key SRE fundamentals and their implications - SLIs, SLOs & SLA. Framing SRE metrics for building or scaling a product is quite a daunting task.

We will compare AlertOps to PagerDuty in 3 broad areas: On-call management Whether your on-call management needs are basic or complex, AlertOps has a solution for you. Creating on-call schedules is simple whether there one person on-call, two or more people on-call, or even multiple teams on-call. Escalations Automatic escalations based on your on-call schedules. Expand the possibilities with Workflows and Escalation Rule.

Managed service providers (MSPs) need the right tools to get the job done quickly and securely. MSP tools dictate control over everything from virtual machine (VM) management and database administration to application and server monitoring. They can also help MSPs oversee IT infrastructure. MSP tools are valuable, but not all tools are created equal.

There’s no better time than now to dedicate effort to reliable software. If it wasn’t apparent before, this past year has made it more evident than ever: People expect their software tools to work every time, all the time. The shift in the way end-users think about software was as inevitable as our daily applications entered our lives, almost like water and electricity entered our homes.

In the world of SRE, incidents are unplanned investments in reliability. Why? Because they are valuable opportunities to learn and grow. This perspective can be difficult to communicate to other stakeholders. Some may be upset about the cost incurred or the affected customers. Others might not understand why incidents happen in the first place. It is important to show how the lessons of an incident are relevant to each stakeholder role.