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VMware enables businesses of all kinds to set up and employ virtual machines (VMs) and servers. These virtual instances provide an abundance of benefits, such as faster speeds, reduced costs, and reduced downtime. However, they can also be quite difficult to manage. Without proper VMware monitoring software, these virtual instances can suffer severe performance loss.

We took advantage of the quiet days between holidays to look back on the year past and thank our users and customers for their support in 2021 - and wish you a very happy 2022!

In an increasingly data-driven world, the ability to summarize and display data while making it easy to understand and actionable is more important than ever. Dashboards appear in all types of software with various approaches behind their design. Despite how they differ in appearance and the information they display, at a conceptual level all dashboards have the same goal and purpose.

Delivering value to customers quickly and efficiently is critical to the success of modern businesses. Understanding the process and timeframe during which an organization generates new ideas and then designs, develops and deploys them is vital to success. At the recent Illuminate User Conference, Drew Horn, Director of Business Development, held a discussion with Clara Ko, Director of Engineering at Sauce Labs, and Bryan Veselka, Director and Product Owner for Cloud and Automation at Vizient.

Automation. It’s a common term. Some may call it a buzzword, even. When it comes to building a network, it’s usually not your first consideration. After all, what’s most important is getting users and devices online—and keeping them there. Isn’t automating the network an advanced step? Are we even capable of making network monitoring and management automatic?

If you’re like most organizations, you’re leveraging Jenkins for all sorts of things. Deployment pipelines, automated API tests, even glorified CRON jobs just to name a few.

The National Retail Federation forecasted historic holidays sales this 2021 season, as retailers grappled with high volumes of in-store and digital traffic, along with a need for full visibility into the user experience. They turned to monitoring their Point-of-Sale (POS) systems for key analytics that revealed unique, real-time details about what customers were experiencing.

You’ve heard of observability, which has fast become one of the IT industry’s buzzwords du jour. But what about actionability, or the ability to translate observability into meaningful action? The latter term may not be a trending buzzword (not yet) – indeed, “actionability” perhaps sounds almost boring – but it’s just as essential as observability in managing complex, cloud-native environments.

OpsRamp was one of only two vendors to be recognized in 451 Research’s Market Map for Application and Infrastructure Performance Monitoring (AIPM) in the categories of Infrastructure Monitoring, Event Correlation and Alerting. 451’s AIPM Market Map offers a holistic perspective on key emerging categories in the IT monitoring and observability space.

Oh goody, I’m so tickled to get this one. *rubs hands gleefully* Funny story, back in 2016–2017 we thought we were building Honeycomb primarily for DB use cases. The use cases are that killer. I’ve never seen another tool do the kinds of things you can do on the fly with Honeycomb and databases.