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Operations staff get a hard time. The lowly systems administrator (sysadmin), database administrator (DBA) and all the other operations engineering team members from cyber penetration specialists to user acceptance testing (UAT) and so on are generally unloved.

Dropbox is one of the oldest names around when it comes to cloud file storage, and the company has built a reputation as a reliable platform for file sharing and collaboration. Recently, Dropbox has been taking a few sidesteps from its roots and promising secure data backup features along with its staple file sync and share. Dropbox is not alone here. Most cloud storage solutions seem to be trying their hands at backup -- if not in practice, at least in terminology.

In June, the research firm GigaOm, published the 2022 edition of their annual Radar for AIOps Solutions, having had time to digest the contents, it seems a good time to summarize the key takeaways from the Moogsoft perspective. Firstly, in case you are not familiar with GigaOm, here’s a brief introduction.

Stock is one of the biggest costs for some associations, which is the reason most organizations are aware of stock levels. Before PCs, monitoring stock included single-stage estimations done by hand per thing, per area. This made it troublesome or almost impossible to accomplish complete visibility across huge supply chains. That is why an inventory-intensive organization must invest in an automated inventory management system.

The security of payments is underlined in multiple visuals we confront each day while visiting numerous websites and apps. Can businesses and customers benefit from that? Any company handling cardholder data, whether a startup or an enterprise, must adhere to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). You must validate your compliance annually in order to remain compliant.

MTTJ – The time taken to join a meeting, and delays caused in ensuring right people are available, can be avoided using software automation and tools. This is not an often talked about topic, but am sure everyone is affected directly from this. We discuss this in detail here. What, why and how it can be avoided?

This is an increasingly popular question for IT professionals. In part, this is driven by the need for organizations to use IT Operations Management (ITOM) in conjunction with more traditional IT service management (ITSM) because of the ever-increasing reliance on technology to enable business operations and outcomes. To help with your understanding, this blog explains what ITOM is, why it is needed, and what it entails.

Apptio announced on May 31, 2019, that it had acquired Cloudability, hoping to strengthen its mission through its new product. Cloudability is a multi-cloud financial management platform for enterprises looking for a more unified way to view, understand, and act on cloud cost insight. Cloudability lets enterprises analyze cloud costs across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Apptio Cloudability provides FinOps capabilities as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

If you’re a developer or site reliability engineer, you might have noticed options to use webhooks in your cloud monitoring or automation settings. And if you have a great deal of experience developing APIs, you probably know what a webhook is. For the rest of the world, a webhook (also known as a web callback or an HTTP push API) is a way for an application to provide other applications with information in real time.