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NiCE DB2 Management Pack 5.40

NiCE is proud to announce the availability of the NiCE DB2 Management Pack 5.40, a new milestone in advanced monitoring and management for IBM DB2 environments. Version 5.40 introduces powerful enhancements that improve efficiency, compatibility, and ease of use: Cluster Synchronization Improvements Ensures more accurate and efficient configuration sync across clustered deployments.

Our latest Pingdom data improvements - to get more from your monitoring

At SquaredUp, we’re obsessed with making monitoring not just powerful, but a genuinely delightful experience for engineers and teams. When we first built our Pingdom plugin, the goal was simple: make website uptime and performance data easy to visualize alongside everything else you care about. But as our users pushed the boundaries—connecting more endpoints, demanding richer insights, and needing faster troubleshooting—we realized our plugin needed to keep up.

NiCE Expands Microsoft SCOM Services with New Expert Training Options

NiCE IT Management Solutions is excited to announce expanded service offerings and professional training options for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. In addition to our well-established consulting and monitoring solutions, we now offer custom and standard SCOM training programs tailored to varying skill levels and organizational needs. Our goal: empower IT teams to maximize performance, ensure stability, and deepen expertise in managing modern infrastructure.
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Hidden Risks in Linux Power Monitoring - And How to Fix Them

In today's enterprise IT landscape, Linux on IBM Power Systems plays a crucial role in powering mission-critical workloads. Industries such as finance, healthcare, telecommunications, and manufacturing rely on IBM Power's scalability, performance, and security to handle large-scale data processing, AI-driven analytics, and high-performance computing. As these environments continue to evolve, ensuring peak system performance and reliability is more important than ever.

Is SCOM dead? Not even close - It has just evolved

Is SCOM dead? Not even close - It has just evolved System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is far from dead. While a growing number of monitoring alternatives have emerged in recent years, SCOM in 2025 remains a critical tool, especially for organizations running hybrid environments. Thanks to its stateful, object-oriented monitoring model and a rapidly evolving ecosystem of modern Management Packs (MPs).

Getting Started with SolarWinds Orion Dashboards

SolarWinds is a popular IT infrastructure monitoring tool deployed on-prem, most well-known for its network and server monitoring capabilities. While it offers rich telemetry, it’s easy to miss the bigger picture. SquaredUp turns this complex monitoring data into clear, shareable dashboards that make it easier to spot trends, catch issues early, and keep everyone on the same page.

Future-Proof Your MariaDB-Based Services

We’re excited to announce the release of the NiCE MariaDB on Linux Management Pack, designed to deliver advanced monitoring and performance insights for organizations running MariaDB on Linux infrastructure. As MariaDB continues to power business-critical applications across industries, visibility into its performance, availability, and health becomes essential.

Getting started with ServiceNow dashboards

ServiceNow is a cloud-based platform that streamlines IT service management, operations, and various business workflows across organizations. Dashboards in ServiceNow can play a valuable role by offering a clear view of key metrics, trends, and performance indicators. While there are dashboards locally in ServiceNow portal, they often fail to provide a fuller picture of the impact of the incidents in context with other key metrics from external tools.

SQL analytics - unified querying across any API

SQL is just for querying relational data, right? Well, not necessarily! With our SQL Analytics feature, you can run SQL queries over all types of data from all kinds of backend stores. This gives you incredible flexibility and power – you can even combine different types of entity (e.g. a pull request and a pipeline run) in a single query. Equally, I could have datasets with job tickets from Jira, ServiceNow and Zendesk and combine them in a single query.