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The OpsRamp Fall 2019 Release introduced alert similarity reinforced correlation, real-time discovery for GCP platform resources and many more updates to the OpsRamp Platform. OpsRamp customers can now access all the new features introduced in the November 2019 update. Customers and partners should review all the details in our release notes. Here’s a summary of what’s new this month.

What an amazing week we've had at Microsoft Ignite! Final day highlights include an insightful Azure Monitor expert panel discussion, our LEGO grand prize giveaway, as well as sessions on migrating to the cloud and Windows Admin Center.

Datadog provides full visibility into your environment through a wide variety of features, ranging from host and container maps of your dynamic infrastructure to customizable dashboards that provide a unified view of every layer of your stack. And now we’re pleased to announce that you can enjoy these visualization features and the rest of the Datadog platform in dark mode.

Discover the brand new way to monitor Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams and Dynamics CRM The new NiCE Active 365 Management Pack 3.0 comes with tons of stunning new features. Besides the already proven monitoring sets for Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams, a new extension for Microsoft Dynamics CRM has been added. Following the Microsoft licensing path, the former Active O365 MP is now available as mix-and-match combinations for Exchange, SharePoint, Teams and Dynamics CRM.

Managing devices and offering the security customers expect is what makes ManageEngine stand apart in the unified endpoint management (UEM) category. Our UEM offering, Desktop Central, delivers a wide range of features addressing all endpoint-based challenges. Desktop Central is under continuous development and offers support to evolving operating systems, hardware, applications, and technology.

In my role as work futurist and evangelist of open work practices, I spend time in more workplaces than the average bloke (and have the frequent flier miles to prove it). I talk to people up and down the org chart about how they get work done day-to-day, the improvements they’re trying to make, and the challenges they face. What I hear is quite consistent from company to company: we crave more autonomy and meaning in our work.

Employing AIOps for observability, monitoring and service assurance frees developers to focus on building better services.

In current development, Object Oriented Programming has proven more popular than its predecessor Functional Programming. Functional Programming was developed before Object Oriented Programming, with support for Lisp, Clojure, Wolfram, Erlang, Haskel, F#, and R. Object Oriented Programming is more modern with support for C++, C#, Java, Python, Ruby. PHP, Perl, Objective-C, Swift, and Dart.

Recent allegations of an ex-Tesla employee syncing the Autopilot source code to his personal iCloud account is yet another classic case of how poor data security is, even in some of the most technologically advanced organizations. The Tesla leak isn’t even the first time that a data breach of such immense magnitude pertaining to self-driving technologies has occurred; in July 2018, an Apple employee was caught using AirDrop to transfer 40GB of confidential data to a personal PC.

Our third day was a bit of a different one. We started off the morning with a SCOM roundtable session that featured presentations from Microsoft, NiCE, Cookdown and SquaredUp. Later in the afternoon, our CEO and Founder Richard delivered a talk on “Mastering Azure Monitor”, and then as usual we did a couple customer briefings, a few customer case studies, and loads and loads of demos – also gave out loads of LEGO!