Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Can External Data Predict System Failures?

Something critical just went down. Again. So you troubleshoot and find out everything's clean - logs, metrics, nothing seems out of the ordinary. You didn't think to look out the window, right? Let's rewind a couple of hours. The temperature spiked 15 degrees outside, the humidity was at 90% and a storm came out of nowhere. Meanwhile, your edge device is sitting in a box on a pole somewhere; it never stood a chance.

AI in IT: Great! Now What the Hell Do You Do with It?

The demand for organizations to minimize downtime, swiftly address issues, and proactively manage the infrastructure has never been greater. But how can teams be expected to meet that challenge with legacy tools and approaches? Enter Zero Ticket IT, a transformative approach where AI-driven automation eliminates traditional ticket bottlenecks, empowering IT teams to focus on innovation and strategy. But how do you know if your team is truly ready for this transformative leap?

Introduction to Puppet Security Compliance Enforcement

Take enterprise compliance to the next level with Puppet Security Compliance Enforcement. This video demonstrates how to shift from reactive to proactive compliance, automating security standards across Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Core environments. Discover how to implement CIS benchmarks with ease, achieve consistent compliance, and reduce risk across your Linux and Windows infrastructure with tailored configurations.

Tutorial: How to Remediate Vulnerabilities with Puppet Enterprise Advanced Patching

The rate at which vulnerabilities are being exploited is on the rise. The VulnCheck company, which specializes in vulnerability intelligence, found that in Q1 2025, 28.3% of vulnerabilities were exploited within 1 day of CVE disclosure. Keeping your systems up to date is more important than ever. The reality is that many security teams are running scans and then exporting to giant spreadsheets, which are “tossed over the wall” to the Operations team with little context.

EMEA Rundeck by PagerDuty Meetup - July 2025

Join us for an informal 1-hour virtual event where the open-source Rundeck by PagerDuty community comes together to share automation stories and use cases. Whether you're new to Rundeck or looking to elevate your automation game, this meetup is packed with valuable takeaways for everyone! Host: Martin Van Son, Automation Specialist & Strategic Solution Advisor at PagerDuty New OSS Dashboards & Enterprise ROI Plugin + Creating Rundeck Plugins with Claude Code.

AMER Rundeck by PagerDuty Meetup - July 2025

Join us for an informal 1-hour virtual event where the open-source Rundeck by PagerDuty community comes together to share automation stories and use cases. Whether you're new to Rundeck or looking to elevate your automation game, this meetup is packed with valuable takeaways for everyone! Host: Forrest Evans (Director, Product Management at PagerDuty) Rundeck by PagerDuty: A Swiss Army Knife of Automation.

Bridging the Gap: 3 Practical Strategies to Align Security and Operations in DevOps

The gap between security operations and IT operations poses significant risk. It’s increasingly clear that DevOps leaders, IT managers, and enterprise teams face an uphill battle to manage growing threat complexity, endless patches, and compliance requirements while operating in silos. Bridging this gap is essential to effectively manage risks and enhance operational efficiency.

Why Your ITSM Automation Isn't Smart Enough & How Agentic AI Can Fix IT

You can infer from Jensen’s keynote speech that moving forward, AI will need to be evaluated by operational outcomes, rather than by speed or accuracy KPIs, such as resolution rates or proactive service restorations in ITSM. ITSM was designed to make complexity manageable by modifying user interfaces, workflows, and playbooks for automation across sprawling operational environments. Automation has improved speed, but never changed the fundamental model: humans being the decision engines.

Security Compliance Management Scanning in Puppet Enterprise

In this session Jason and Nelson provide a walkthrough of Security Compliance Enforcement (SCM) scanning in Puppet Enterprise, emphasizing its seamless integration and ability to check compliance against CIS benchmarks. It highlights the compliance dashboard, which offers immediate insights into security status and supports scanning for up to a hundred thousand nodes.