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What are AIOps use cases?

The past decade has seen organizations embrace AI and data analytics at scale. In 2022, IBM found that 35% of organizations have embraced AI—a 4% increase from 2021. The trend of AI adoption will continue to play out in the next several years across virtually every organizational function. At the vanguard of this movement is AIOps, which sees AI used to improve IT operations (ITOps).

Elasticsearch Open Source Monitoring Tools [2023 Comparison]

This article is the third of a four-part series of articles about Elasticsearch monitoring. In the first article, we put together an Elasticsearch guide, covering how Elasticsearch works and why the setup and tuning of Elasticsearch requires a good knowledge of configuration options and performance metrics.

How to Communicate Value as an MSP in 2023

What’s the difference between a successful MSP and a very successful MSP? While it might seem like technology must have something to do with it, quite often the answer is far more human and interpersonal. It’s far too easy to forget that an IT business isn’t just about the IT -- and that the business component is very reliant on communication. From generating new leads, to closing deals, all the way to serving and retaining clients, you have to talk the right talk.

The Big SCOM Survey 2022 - 2023

The Big SCOM SURVEY is up and running viral again across the entire SCOM community. SCOM lovers of all regions and countries gather for this yearly event to share their perceptions, usage, and plans for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. This year is the third round of the Big SCOM survey, conducted by SCOMathon, the learning and community hub for all SCOM-related topics.

Infovista unveils NLA Cloud Platform to unify cloud-native network planning, testing and automated assurance and operations

Extends proven cloud platform to scale and integrate telco-specific data, automation and analytics across operators' network lifecycle to reduce CSPs' network operating costs and time-to-market of new services.

Monitoring with Prometheus vs Grafana: understanding the difference

Observability has become one of the most important areas of your application and infrastructure landscape, and the market has an abundance of tools available that seem to do what you need. In reality, however, most products - especially leading open source tools - were created to solve a single problem extremely well, and have added additional supporting functionality to become a more robust solution; but the non-core functionality is rarely best of breed. Examples of these are Prometheus and Grafana.

How Ubuntu Pro delivers enhanced security and manageability for Linux Desktop users

At the end of last year Canonical announced that Ubuntu Pro, our expanded security maintenance and compliance subscription, is now available for data centers and desktops as a public beta. This week, Ubuntu Pro entered general availability, giving Ubuntu users access to extra hardening and security patching. If you’re a developer using Ansible, Apache Tomcat, Apache Zookeeper, Docker, Nagios, Node.js, phpMyAdmin, Puppet or Python 2, you’ll want to read on.