As digital transformation is now one of the main priorities for organizations across all industries, it is critical to have a solid strategy in place to ensure successful and lasting adoption. However, most technology leaders and decision-makers completely ignore some of the potential mistakes that stymie their organization’s digital transformation.
If you know anything about upholding the three pillars of observability for your business then you will know that centrally analysing and managing logs, metrics and traces is vital for improving how you observe the status of your business’s key infrastructure components.
Asset intensive organizations regularly struggle with keeping equipment, and different resources in compelling working conditions while likewise diminishing the expenses of maintenance and time-based inspection & fixes.
In recent weeks, international headlines have been dominated by the Russia-Ukraine war and its potential to escalate into cyberspace due to punishing economic sanctions by the west. On March 21st, 2022, the Biden administration released a statement calling for the public and private sector to “accelerate efforts to lock their digital doors” in light of the Russian cyber threat.
When Rolls Royce Power Systems recently needed to improve its operational efficiency within its manufacturing plants, it didn’t expand its use of a legacy process historian or purchase historian connectors to export data to their business intelligence systems. Instead, it decided to go with a modern time series database, InfluxDB. Graphite Energy, another customer we featured in our recent IIoT announcement, also chose InfluxDB over the legacy process historian vendors. Why?
A month and a half ago we released ValidKube, our first OS project that fused the capabilities of three other popular OS tools (kubeval, kubectl-neat and trivy) in a single easy-to-use microsite. Using the microsite, any user could ensure the security and hygiene of their K8s YAML, with just a few clicks of the button, pretty much on the fly. ValidKube was born out of a straightforward concept and we were happy to see its user-friendly approach resonate almost immediately.
A year ago, we launched the Orchestration center capability in Freshservice. At that time, little did we know that it would turn into a vital driver of customer delight with over 40 apps in just one year! With new third-party applications joining the Apps Marketplace almost every month, we are set to address an expanding range of business needs with an extensible solution that perfectly integrates with the organization’s ecosystem.
One of the most challenging things when writing about DevOps and ITIL is finding the perfect phrases to define both of them. They not only mean different things to different people and organizations but are also implemented & used very differently. Let’s glance through their definitions first.
