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Today, at Microsoft Ignite, the release of Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance (SCOM MI) was announced. In recent years, the IT industry has increasingly gravitated towards cloud-based solutions. Microsoft, as a leader of innovation, has been at the forefront of this shift, by consistently developing the best possible cloud alternatives for their products.

Big news! Microsoft have just dropped Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance (SCOM MI), their cloud-based alternative to SCOM. It’s fully Microsoft managed, and so it promises to take the headache out of deploying, scaling, and managing your SCOM Management Groups. Read Microsoft’s announcement blog to learn all about it.

You'll often hear us saying "everyone loves a dashboard", and that's most certainly true, but nobody loves staring at a screen all day waiting for something to happen. Real magic is when your awesome dashboard comes to you, where you need it, when you need it. Over the last few months we've introduced a bunch of powerful features to make "taking action" as simple as possible... Monitors let you define the health of your data so you can see at a glance if something isn't right.

Sometimes, when building Runbooks in Orchestrator, it can feel like you’ve hit a dead end with no way to achieve the functionality or automation you require. For newer users, Orchestrator can be daunting because it is a completely blank canvas; there are no sample runbooks included or out-of-the-box automations. In addition, with a shift in focus to cloud automation, there is limited guidance and ‘how to’ advice available to help users.

With the Opslogix ServiceNow Incident Connector for SCOM, you get a bi-directional data sync between SCOM Alerts and ServiceNow Incidents and Tickets Most organizations rely on a number of different tools to keep their operations running smoothly. Getting these tools to integrate seamlessly with each other is an essential factor in streamlining your operations, but sometimes, additional connectors might be needed in order to do so optimally.

In the world of virtualization, VMware Horizon is a name that every expert is familiar with. This powerful platform has revolutionized the way employees access their desktops and applications, creating an unparalleled digital employee experience (DEX). With features like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS), VMware Horizon has become the go-to solution for organizations looking to streamline their IT infrastructure.