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Configuration Drift: How It Happens, Top Sources + How to Stop It for Good

Bad news: Configuration drift is going to happen no matter what you do. It’s very easy to miss, caused by some innocuous mistake or patch and buried in paper trails that don’t exist. By the time you’ve found which configurations have drifted, it usually means something’s already going wrong. But here’s the good news: You and your precious configurations don’t have to take it lying down.

4 Important IT Automations Explained for Success in 2024

It’s safe to assume that planning ahead is everything to business leaders right now, as the start of 2024 is right around the corner. It’s a strategy-backed priority to get proactive and ahead of challenges that might be ahead of us. As IT’s role in driving business success continues to expand, putting automation to work inside of IT departments and functions today better positions organizations to reach goals and overcome future obstacles.

The Journey Into Automation: Optimizing Care Delivery

In a world where efficiency and precision are the cornerstones of progress, automation has become the unsung hero across diverse industries. From manufacturing floors to customer service, its transformative power has reshaped the way we work and deliver services. Today, we embark on a journey to explore the profound influence of automation on healthcare, where each automated process is a progressive step towards optimizing care delivery and reshaping the future of patient-centered care delivery.

Migrating from Travis to Github Actions

For CFEngine we manage several public and private repositories of code in GitHub for our Open Source and Enterprise products. In order to ensure quality we run many checks on the code both with nightly builds as well as on each pull request. We use a Jenkins server for nightlies which also includes more extensive deployment tests on all of the platforms we support. Previously we had used Travis for many of these checks but that system started to show its age and limitations.

Automation on the go with the Kelverion Portal Mobile App

The shift in remote working has seen an increase in demand to utilize smartphones to host meetings, check emails and message colleagues on Microsoft Teams. Keeping up with this trend, the Kelverion team have created a mobile app version of our popular Self-Service Automation Portal, which previously has been a web-based solution typically used on a desktop device. The portal is available for iPhone devices and can be downloaded from iOS app store.

Webinar: Streamlining Incident Management With Automation and Contextual Awareness

In the modern context of distributed teams & complex digital infrastructure, major incidents having a negative impact spanning multiple teams and services can cause a barrage of alerts. While a meticulously designed incident response strategy can aid in restoring order, it's essential to underscore the significance of providing responders with effective tools that offer contextual understanding and facilitate the identification of actionable alerts.

What is Hyperautomation and How Does it Benefit Business?

Hyperautomation is a holistic business-driven approach to automation that allows organizations to identify, examine, and automate almost all business processes. It involves the orchestration of disparate systems across various departments and delivers efficiency. Hyperautomation helps businesses leverage automation and enable a faster, more efficient, and effortless functioning of organizations.

AppDynamics Talks Optimized Self-healing with Full-stack Observability, Auto-remediation

From an IT perspective, technologists generally agree that the ability to monitor and have visibility into the IT stack across every one of their applications is essential with the now-permanent remote and hybrid work models. It also stems from the fact that digital transformation and IT growth has accelerated by seven years since the pandemic in 2020, analysts say.

What is Continuous Delivery? The Benefits of a Well-Tuned Continuous Delivery Software Pipeline

What is continuous delivery? And what are the benefits of the continuous delivery pipeline? This strategy has evolved in a world where platform engineering is on the rise and more and more organizations rely on automation through code to achieve their goals. Times have changed. Most organizations now rely on continuous delivery as an essential part of their development pipelines.