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The latest News and Information on IT Operations Management and related technologies.

Four Years as a Public Company

Four years ago tomorrow, our team rang the bell to open the NYSE for PagerDuty’s IPO. We spent two weeks traveling to meet hundreds of prospective investors in person, sustained by a diet of Cheetos and green M&Ms, sneaker-clad walks to meetings, and unwinding with bad karaoke. We’ve grown in many ways in our first four years as a public company. We have more than doubled the number of customers on the PagerDuty platform, and nearly tripled the number of users.

Will SaaS IT Operation Management Ever Rule the World?

SaaS is a cloud-based software licensing model that allows access to data from any device with an internet connection and a web browser. SaaS operations consist of minimizing the cost of unused SaaS products and maximizing their use. Across industries, software as a service has become a more viable option due to its functionality, accessibility, and versatility.
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What is IT Operations Management

The world of IT networking has countless acronyms for every component, metric, technology, function, and so on. ITOM, or IT operations management, is a function that encapsulates the administration of all network infrastructure components within an organization. ITOM is a critical function that can directly determine the fortunes of the company. It is for the same reason that we should clearly understand what it stands for, why it's needed, and what its benefits are. Let's dive in.

Learn ITSM and ITOM Key Differences and Similarities

ITSM and ITOM are two of the most critical concepts to understand when it comes to managing an IT department. Although both are related to IT management, there are key differences and similarities between the two that must be understood to maximize efficiency and ensure customer service. In this article, we will explain the key differences and similarities between ITSM and ITOM and how they should be used in tandem to ensure successful IT management.

Drinking Our Own Champagne: IT Automation Meets Marketing Automation

Operations management—whether IT, business, sales, marketing, etc.—has four essential main objectives: And in any industry, those objectives are driven by the most important goal, which is to generate revenue for the organization. While every single task or implementation may not directly impact revenue, the outcome of small improvements over time can be substantial. After a Google search for motivational quotes, I stumbled on James Clear’s “power of tiny gains” concept.

What's New: January 2023

We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Recent development and app updates from the product team include Incident Response, PagerDuty® Process Automation, the PagerDuty Mobile App, Integrations, as well as Community & Advocacy Events updates. We continue to help customers further automate to optimize cloud operations and reduce the amount of issues escalated to other teams. Get started now and learn about.

Create a Status Update Notification Template in less than 2 minutes

Now generally available! With organization-based templates, companies can now customize and standardize communications based on impact, service areas, and more. This functionality will be also available via API, so teams are able to customize and leverage status update notification templates to fit their needs in any tool or context.

IT Operations Management (ITOM) Best Practices

IT operations have always served as the infrastructure’s watchdogs and first responders, but they now do much more. ITOps experts are incorporated into build/run product teams where they will share ownership and accountability with the development team, testers, and system administrators. What change might be the most challenging for an experienced ITOps professional? Production is no longer owned by IT. Today, development and the production environment work together.
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Uptime monitoring: How to track your network availability, 24/7

When it come to measuring an organization's ability to support end users and provide services, network uptime can be a great yardstick. An inability to ensure optimum uptime can negatively impact your business delivery, resulting in financial and reputational losses. If you're doing it manually, ensuring 24/7 network uptime is a challenging exercise requiring considerable resources. It is way more convenient to have a monitoring mechanism in place that can monitor network uptime and notify the network admin proactively about any bottlenecks that might lead to network downtime.