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Five Ways AIOps Can Improve IT Incident Management

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is an emerging technology that can help IT operations teams make sense of operational data. As hybrid infrastructure and cloud-native technologies present new levels of complexity, AIOps is showing great promise in simplifying and transforming digital operations management. In our recent Tech Talk, Five Ways AIOps Can Transform Your Enterprise, OpsRamp’s Eric Cook spoke about the need for AIOps in today’s multi-cloud environments.

How OpsRamp's intelligent Escalations Enables Remote Workers

OpsRamp alert escalation policies allow an administrator to configure escalation rules that determine which alerts that need attention, which users are required to take action, and what actions should be taken. In this interactive session we'll dive into why this is more important than ever as organizations adopt remote work strategies and need to be able to not only understand the signal from the noise, but also get to the root cause faster and ensure information is getting to the right people at the right time to reduce meantime to resolution.

Parsley Health: Bringing Telemedicine to the Front Lines

As a child with a cancer survivor and heart disease patient for parents, I developed a psychological discomfort for visiting hospitals and the doctor’s office in my adult years. For me, the feeling of restlessness while sitting in a waiting room coupled with fear of the medically unknown can create the perfect breeding grounds for stress and anxiety—and apparently, I’m not alone.

Rackspace Boosts IT Operations Management with AIOps

As part of its pledged “fanatical” commitment to the success of its 125,000 customers across the globe, Rackspace optimizes its IT operations to the fullest. That way, this leading MSP ensures the highest quality and reliability of its vast portfolio of IT services across public and private clouds, and dedicated servers. “We support everything from gaming to e-commerce, telecommunications, medical, aviation — you name it.

May 2020 Update: Alert management and chat in web portal and upcoming duties in the mobile app

Our May update brings new features to our Signl Center in the web app and adds a new view that displays your upcoming duties to the mobile app! When part of an on-call duty team, your private life and work-life-balance are pretty much affected. Knowing about scheduled duties in advance and having such information at hand, can simplify things a little bit. That’s why we have added a new feature to our mobile app. The mobile app now displays the next 3 upcoming duties if those have been scheduled.

Maze Ransomware Attack Hits Cognizant

New Jersey-based service provider Cognizant is the latest victim of the Maze ransomware attack. This is an unfortunate reality check, proving that hackers don’t stop their calculated, malicious activities for COVID-19. Accordingly, managed service providers (MSPs) are still largely vulnerable to these malicious crimes.

Best Practices in Incident Management

In an always-on world, companies look to systems and processes to keep their services up and running at all times. The most important part of maintaining this uptime is having an Incident Management process in place to restore your services in the event of an interruption or unplanned downtime. Incident Management processes are typically used by SRE, DevOps, NOC and other IT teams to respond to incidents that affect services and work on restoring their uptime.

The Face of Success: Insights from BigPanda's "IT Ops from Home" Virtual Summit

Close to IT 400 professionals from some of the most prominent enterprises in the retail, financial, technology, pharma and manufacturing industries attended our “Face of IT Ops from Home” virtual conference, enjoying a keynote session featuring Sony Playstation and State Farm Insurance, and three breakout sessions with Ulta Beauty, AWS and BlackRock 3.

Assessing the Economic Value of AIOps

Taking economics into account Most enterprises consider economics when deciding which AIOps platform to purchase. Often, their conception of economics is narrow, reduced to the resolution of three issues: 1) the cost of the technology; 2) its ability to replace human labor; and 3) its ability to displace deployed products and, hence, defray future maintenance and subscription charges. In other words, AIOps economics becomes almost entirely a matter of cost.