The Summer 2019 release introduced: OpsQ Observed Mode, Learning-Based Auto-Alert Suppression and many more updates to the OpsRamp Platform. This week all OpsRamp customers are being updated to our August 2019 release. Customers and partners should review all the details in our release notes. Here’s a high-level summary of what’s new this month: Observed Mode is now available for Alert Escalation and First Response policies.

The following first appeared in Dataconomy. How are dynamic IT operations affecting company culture? What do businesses need to understand about data driven AI to successfully drive their operations into the future? Risks that previously stayed inside organizational units, such as IT Ops, now leak across domains, influencing decision-making for the entire company.

In July 2019, OpsRamp launched the new Partner Program to help reseller, service provider, and system integration partners build expertise around multi-cloud infrastructure monitoring and modern incident management. July was also a month of industry recognition, with CRN naming OpsRamp as an emerging vendor in the Cloud category. Our resident experts continued to contribute to industry publications with several articles and podcasts.

The 2019 RightScale State of Cloud report shows that 45% of IT leaders voted for hybrid infrastructure as their top operational priority (public cloud comes second at 31%). With enterprises expected to use a combination of legacy and modern infrastructure for the foreseeable future, how do digital operations teams drive greater availability and proactive system performance for mission-critical services running on hybrid architectures?

OpsRamp controls and tracks access to modern hybrid infrastructure with secure remote consoles. Remote consoles help IT pros gain access to distributed resources and execute tasks on the target device/resource. All remote sessions are recorded for playback so that IT teams can use these session recordings for audit compliance, change management, and training.

Having worked with managed service providers, technology integrators, value-added resellers, and cloud service providers across the world, OpsRamp understands what it takes to create great partnerships. Over the last five years, we have learned a lot about fostering smart and committed relationships with our partner ecosystem. Relationships are key in a world of rapid change and constant innovation. Healthy partner relationships require constant nurturing, collaboration, and enablement.

Research firm IDC predicts that overall data volumes will grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes by 2025. 50% of the data will come from IoT devices and nearly 30% of the data will get consumed in real-time by 2025. The data economy has changed the game on how enterprises will need to work with digital technologies to become more effective, competitive, and innovative.

June 2019 saw the launch of The OpsRamp Cost Savings Calculator, a simple and powerful tool which helps IT experts quantify how much they can save with OpsRamp's service-centric AIOps platform. Our field marketing team had a blitz with two major events - HPE Discover and CloudExpo Santa Clara where we showcased our AIOps and hybrid IT monitoring capabilities. June also saw our resident experts making several contributions across different media outlets and events.

This is a companion post to a recent webinar with an OpsRamp partner, Flycast Partners. Check out the recorded webinar on YouTube and slides on SlideShare for the potential impacts of ITSM and ITOM silos and how a modern ITOM platform can help improve bi-directional collaboration and reduce mean-time-to-resolution.

Auto-alert suppression management in OpsRamp delivers first-response actions to reduce redundant and noisy alerts. Learning-based first-response policies ensure that IT teams no longer have to create static rules for a target set of resources by configuring alarm thresholds, defining filter criteria, and specifying time intervals.