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Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recently developed a report examining the business case for IT end-to-end observability and control and delved into how digital experience management was at the intersection of Microsoft 365 services and IT. Below you will find some excerpts from their report that detail how Martello solutions are able to use digital experience monitoring to provide Microsoft 365 service excellence to our clients.

Are you looking for ways to improve your data center performance and resource utilization? Consider employing virtualization. Virtualization offers a cost-effective solution to satisfy the growing need for storage capacities and IT support required by most organizations. It is a process that allows you to scale up your physical resources to meet your increasing demands. You can virtualize physical servers, networking, storage, and other infrastructure components to enhance your data center operations.

Monitoring Ceph with Prometheus is straightforward since Ceph already exposes an endpoint with all of its metrics for Prometheus. In this article, we will put it all together to help you start monitoring your Ceph storage cluster and guide you through all the important metrics. Ceph offers a great solution for object-based storage to manage large amounts of data even on economical hardware. Besides, the Ceph Foundation is organized as a direct fund under the Linux Foundation.

Elite software development teams automate and integrate monitoring observability tools more frequently than lower performing teams, per the Accelerate: State of DevOps report. Organizations that need the highest levels of reliability, security, and scalability for their applications choose Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Recently we introduced GKE Autopilot to further simplify Kubernetes operations by automating the management of the cluster infrastructure, control plane, and nodes.

The Grafana Agent team is happy to announce that Grafana Agent 0.14.0-rc2 includes improved Windows support. Up until now, running Grafana Agent — our tool for gathering metrics, logs, and traces — in Windows was difficult and not well supported for Windows best practices. In short, it was not a good Windows citizen. In the new release candidate, we’re making changes to improve the experience, based on feedback from GitHub issues, customer contacts, and our own experience.

I recently had the honor of moderating a webinar featuring Forrester Senior Analyst Rich Lane and Steve Breen, Head of Managed Services at ANS, titled “AIOps for the Modern Enterprise: Real-World Advice & Implementation Tips from the Pros.” In this informative session, Rich and Steve talked about the importance of building AI and automation into business strategy and provided tips, tricks, and real-life examples of how modern organizations are using AIOps to drive positive business outc

Continuous monitoring (CM), also referred to continuous control monitoring (CCM), is an automated process that allows DevOps teams to detect compliance and security threats in their software development lifecycle and infrastructure. Traditionally, businesses have relied on periodic manual or computer-assisted assessments to provide snapshots of the overall health of their IT environment.