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Azure DevOps success with out-of-box dashboards & monitoring

In previous roles I have been both an Engineering Manager responsible for a team, and a Program Manager responsible for branching strategy and process around CICD pipelines. In both of those roles (but for very different reasons), my product's build quality has been critical to product success. The obvious "why" to this is no builds, no product, but the real why is much more nuanced.

Azure Virtual Machine out-of-box dashboard makes it easier to get started

I first started my career in IT support back in 2003 when VMs where something that was “coming” rather than mainstream, so I had the privilege of witnessing the birth of VMs first hand when my company made the switch from bare metal to VMware GSX running on top of Windows Server 2003.
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Microsoft Unveils System Center 2025

Microsoft recently announced the upcoming release of System Center 2025, the next Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) iteration of its comprehensive suite of management tools for IT infrastructure. Building on the legacy of System Center, which was first introduced in 2008, this new version is slated for general availability in Fall 2024, aligning with the release of Windows Server 2025.

Monitoring the IBM Power Ecosystem using Microsoft Azure | Webinar by NiCE

In today’s interconnected and hybrid cloud environments, effective system monitoring is crucial for maintaining performance, reliability, and security. This technical presentation explores how Microsoft Azure enables comprehensive monitoring of the IBM Power ecosystem, explicitly focusing on AIX, Linux on Power, and Linux on Z Series operating systems. Further, active monitoring of HMC and VIOS is considered.

GripMatix Launches Free Citrix Logon Simulator and SCOM MP

MetrixInsight for Citrix Logon Simulator is a robust solution built around the advanced capabilities of the GripMatix Logon Simulator for Citrix. It continuously conducts and monitors synthetic logon transactions, ensuring 24/7 operation. By complementing real user logon monitoring, synthetic user logon monitoring offers a proactive approach to assessing Citrix environments.

Are dashboards dead? Not quite. They just haven't evolved

In discussions across the tech and data communities in recent years, a provocative idea has been gaining traction: the notion that dashboards are dead. The first time I came across this was in the article by Taylor Brownlow of the same name, "Dashboards are Dead". A worthwhile read. The article suggests that dashboards, as we known them, no longer serve the needs of modern data-driven organizations. Not through their own fault as such, more through misuse or over-asking.