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What Is Cloud Networking?

The future is bright for the cloud. In 2019, 90% of companies were already in the cloud and this impressive amount is expected to jump another 4% in 2021. And it gets even more interesting. By 2024, more than 45% of IT spending will edge out legacy networks and replace them with the cloud. As this reality unfolds, the result will be a long-term change in enterprise IT and supplier landscapes. It also means that knowing the cloud is part of the new normal of IT. What’s helping to drive these trends?

The Role of IT Monitoring in Ensuring Good Citrix Work From Home (WFH) Experience

Many of the world’s largest businesses use eG Innovations’ ​solutions to enhance IT service performance, increase operational efficiency, ensure IT effectiveness, and deliver on the ROI promise of transformational IT investments across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. But what role will they play in the future of work? And how are Citrix and eG working together?

Martello iQ and Azure Monitor, How Do the Two Products Compare?

Microsoft Monitoring health and usage information is a critical maintenance task for any site or application, whether it’s running in your on-premises datacenter, hybrid or public cloud environment, or hosted environment. Today’s challenge is that enterprises still require end-to-end monitoring insights of their running (and not running) application workloads, while also knowing that they are losing ground on the physical characteristics of managing their own datacenters.

How can I convert SCOM alerts into actionable ServiceNow Incidents?

Firstly, let’s look at why it is so valuable to integrate SCOM and ServiceNow. There are lots of tools available to help you integrate SCOM and ServiceNow. So, the next step is to understand which one will provide your business with the best solution. To help you work through this decision we recommend you ask yourself the following questions.

How to get the most from your ITSM monitoring integrations?

Before talking about integration, let’s take a look at your non-automated Service Management processes. There isn’t a right or wrong answer as this varies based on your needs, think through the below questions to get a perspective on how tasks flow within your company today.

Communicating Strategically with Manual Reporting Availability (Part 3)

In my prior two blog posts, we focused on creating a bunch of Enterprise Applications (EAs), tagging those EAs, and then updating the Status dashboard to only show those EAs that are Critical Service Offerings (CSO). For this blog post, we will create some relationships and demonstrate how alerting behaves using SquaredUp's Manual Reporting Availability functionality available in the EAM tier of the product. For this post, we're going to do amazing stuff!

Datadog acquires Timber Technologies

Here at Datadog, we have always strived to build monitoring tools that are robust yet flexible. We are committed to continued innovation, and we believe that when it comes to creating new solutions that complement our customers' existing workflows, our work is never done. That’s why we’re excited to announce that Timber Technologies, the company behind Vector, is joining Datadog.

Recommended Server Room Temperature and Humidity

What are the ideal server room temperature and humidity levels where you store your servers? This is an important question you should know the answer to whether you are responsible for managing racks of servers or a small business owner with a single server. Servers house your data, files, and other information to make it easily accessible from any connected workstation. If the server room gets too hot or too humid, it can cause your servers to overheat and fail.

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips - the Easiest Way to Use and Create InfluxDB Templates

If you didn’t already know, one of the perks of InfluxDB 2.0 is having access to templates. InfluxDB templates allow you to easily apply a variety of preconfigured resources including Telegraf configurations, buckets, dashboard, tasks, and alerts to your InfluxDB instance. In this TL;DR we’ll walk through the easiest way to use and create a template.

IT Innovations in Personalization and End User Personas - Q&A with Prabhu Kaliaperumal

The days of the one-size-fits-all IT strategy are over. Employees have higher expectations for their workplace experience than ever before – which leads to growing tension when their unique needs are not met by IT. The only solution is a full embrace of personalized, right-sized IT services. Delivering consistent personalized service is easier said than done, however. Organizations must first develop a comprehensive understanding of their employees.