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Observability in the Cloud-Native Age: Announcing the DevOps Pulse 2020

It’s that time of year again — the DevOps Pulse 2020 is here! Last year, nearly 1,000 engineers around the world provided their insights in the DevOps Pulse 2019 so we could get the community’s perspective on the growth and challenges associated with observability, cloud monitoring and more. As we discovered in last year’s DevOps Pulse, observability is still a major challenge for many organizations.

How SIGNL4 solves typical problems in network monitoring

A new article in the September issue of German magazine LANLine (“Automation creates productivity”) summarizes typical challenges and problems in network monitoring very well and is worth reading. I would like to briefly discuss some of the problems addressed and how our product SIGNL4 was developed as a solution for exactly these problems.

Nexthink Named in Gartner's Guide for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

We’re proud to announce that Nexthink has been named, once again, as a leading technology vendor in Gartner’s latest Market Guide for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). More than ever, the topics in the guide are striking a chord for many Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) leaders. According to Gartner, in the first few months of 2020 inquiries for end-user experience grew five times compared to 2019.

47% of Enterprises Lack Visibility/Insight Performance of IT Systems: Virtana integrates with Pure Storage to Provide Real-Time Intelligence

San Jose, CA, August 31, 2020 – Enterprises are struggling with their IT performance, as almost half (47%) admitted they lack visibility and insight into their systems in a recent survey. In response, Virtana, a leader in enterprise hybrid cloud migration and optimization today announced an integration with Pure Storage, an IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world.

Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.2.0

Today we are proud to announce the official release for Icinga for Windows v1.2.0! This includes v1.2.0 of the Icinga PowerShell Framework and v1.2.0 for the Icinga PowerShell Plugins. We collected plenty of feedback during the past months from our world-wide user base and focused on stability and usability in this release, but also added several new features!

A complete solution for installing Mattermost: Introducing Mattermost Omnibus

Some time ago, a group of Mattermost contributors sat down to think about how to improve the installation and maintenance flow of the platform. Managing a Mattermost install is quite straightforward already thanks to its binary distribution, but you still need to install and manage the different components that surround the application itself: the database, the web proxy, and the SSL certificate.

Secure and monitor your containers on Bottlerocket from AWS

Sysdig is pleased to support AWS today in their GA launch of Bottlerocket, a special-purpose operating system designed for hosting Linux containers. Orchestrated container environments run potentially hundreds of compute nodes. Operating general-purpose Linux on container hosts introduces complexity for IT teams who must patch and update packages across their clusters. Worse, features and packages that are not necessary for running containers, introduce unnecessary security exposure.

LM Container: Introducing Support for AWS Bottlerocket

Hybrid IT environments enable Enterprises to optimize factors such as performance, cost, agility, and security, but they also introduce complexity. Containers are a great way to reduce some of this complexity by standardizing how applications are developed and deployed.

ServiceNow named a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools

It’s an honor to be named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools (ITVRM)! ServiceNow Vendor Risk Management delivers a fast, smart, and connected way to manage third-party risk and build supplier resilience. This recognition as a Leader in the 2020 ITVRM Magic Quadrant comes shortly after Gartner also named ServiceNow as a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for IT Risk Management and in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Risk Management Solutions.