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Demo Roundups! Automation Standardization (Runbook Automation)
Solution consultants Asif Ahmad and Justyn Roberts show how PagerDuty's management and orchestration for the enterprise helps organizations connect and automate work across teams, systems, and environments. Level up your digital operations expertise with PagerDuty Demo Roundups — a series of live, interactive webinars where you can deepen your knowledge in the Operations Cloud and see how PagerDuty can work for you.
Achieving your AI Strategy with Automation
AI must be the hottest topic in the business news at the moment whether its public offerings like ChatGPT or the plethora of business offerings starting to appear. In a recent Gartner survey1 92% of CIOs believe AI will be implemented in their organizations by 2025 but turning the promise of AI into reality is not easy, in the same survey 49% of leaders highly involved in AI report that their organizations struggle to estimate and demonstrate the technology’s value.
Feature Friday #29: Variable class expressions
Did you know you can use variables in class expressions? If you are reading this, you probably are already familiar with the ability to use class expressions to restrict the context of multiple promises. For example, here we have three reports type promises, all guarded by the class expression linux::.
Understanding Automation Essentials Challenges, Solutions and Beyond
Automation is one of the main considerations when defining a cloud strategy. It is essential that enterprises implement automation within their cloud infrastructure so that they can not only enhance efficiency and generate opex savings, but also to scale operations and improve service delivery to their customers. Despite its importance, automation still has its challenges. Organizations must know how to automate tasks across often complex cloud architectures, in addition to meeting security expectations and navigating implementation costs.
Runbook Automation and Rundeck v5.6 Release Notes
The Runbook Automation and Rundeck product team are back with release v5.6, featuring some security updates and fixes, plus lots of contributions from Rundeck’s amazing open source community. Plus, Forrest takes us through some of the projects that community members can contribute to themselves, including the documentation and plugins.
Overcoming the Alarm Avalanches Era
As networks become increasingly complex, I&O teams face a new challenge: alarm avalanches. In today’s world of interconnected technologies—on-premises data centers, private clouds, public clouds, and hybrid environments—the sheer volume of alarms can overwhelm teams, drowning out critical issues that need immediate attention.
NIS2: Compliance Requirements, Deadline & Instructions for the New NIS2 Directive
The compliance landscape for organisations in the European Union (EU) is heating up again — this time with the second landmark Network and Information Security (NIS2) Directive, set to take effect on 17 October 2024. But what does NIS2 compliance entail? What's the difference between the original NIS1 vs. NIS2? Who needs to comply with NIS2, and what are the penalties for not complying with the new directive?
Feature Friday #28: Restricting individual promises using if and unless
Class expressions are powerful. They let you restrict the context for multiple promises in a single statement. What if you want to further control the context of a specific promise? Let’s take a look at a contrived example: /tmp/feature-friday-28-0.cf command output Here, we have a report showing the distribution we’re running through class expressions protecting the individual promises. We would see I love Linux! on Linux hosts.
Trends in AI - Agentic AI with ReAct Agents for Network Automation
AI Agents are here, and they’re making headlines! Featured in recent articles from Forbes and The New York Times, Agentic AI is making waves. Even NVIDIA’s CEO sees the limitless promise of AI Agents to shape the future of tech. In this video, I demonstrate the power of ReAct Agents for Network Automation, using cutting-edge technology.