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SREs can help Transform Enterprise IT

Transformation of IT Ops When I think of the term IT Ops I immediately think of Enterprise IT and the traditional attributes that make up this function – many of which are in the middle of an industry-wide disruption – and its associated impact. At LinkedIn, when we first looked at business process support, shadow IT and non-accounted-for IT spend, about 10 years ago, it was a bit of a revelation to me how the landscape had already changed by then.

OnPage Mentioned in Gartner's Hype Cycle for ITSM 2019 Report

Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ITSM report highlights tools or technologies that improve IT operations. It’s a comprehensive, in-depth document, allowing support teams to gain insight into the latest innovations, industry trends and recommendations. The OnPage team is pleased to be included in the latest Hype Cycle for ITSM report, listing OnPage’s solution as a trusted, reliable source for IT service alerting (ITSA).

Keep Your Business Stakeholders Updated While You Save the Day

Imagine this: An airline encounters a major IT incident in a data center that affects their ticketing system. Behind the scenes, technical responders are scrambling to diagnose and fix the issue. However, because today’s systems are so complex, this issue is taking longer than expected to resolve, and hours have passed since the system went down. Meanwhile, passengers are stranded and taking their anger out on customer service agents and sharing their frustrations on social media.

Intent-based Capacity Planning and Autoscaling with Kubernetes

Intent-based Capacity Planning is Google's approach to declare reliability intent for a service and then solve for the most efficient resource allocation plan dynamically. Learn how you can start using this approach to effectively manage the reliability of your services running on your Kubernetes cluster.

Reducing MTTR in the Field: 10 Simple Steps Using Retrace

The last decade has ushered in a golden era of software engineering. The rise of cloud computing freed companies from managing their own data centers and provided on-demand scaling. These services allow for provisioning servers on the fly using configuration and code. Treating that task as just another type of software development led to the advent of DevOps.

6 Best Practices For Outstanding Critical Incident Management

"Businesses need to face the inevitability of being hacked at some point. It's not a question of if, but when — and that's why being proactive to minimize the risk is essential." Robert Egan. When a critical incident hits, what happens to an organization without an efficient incident management plan? Essentially, all stakeholders are left "fighting fires," trying to recover their systems, and get their business back up and running.