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Understanding Automation Essentials Challenges, Solutions and Beyond

Sep 27, 2024 By Ribbon In Ribbon
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.
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Runbook Automation and Rundeck v5.6 Release Notes

Sep 25, 2024 By PagerDuty In PagerDuty
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.
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puppet

NIS2: Compliance Requirements, Deadline & Instructions for the New NIS2 Directive

Sep 23, 2024 By Robin Tatam In Puppet
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?
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Feature Friday #28: Restricting individual promises using if and unless

Sep 20, 2024 By Nick Anderson In CFEngine
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.
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Trends in AI - Agentic AI with ReAct Agents for Network Automation

Sep 20, 2024 By Selector In Selector
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.
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iOPEX

A Complete Guide on Intelligent Automation for Business

Sep 19, 2024 By Sep 19 2024 , In iOPEX
Intelligent Automation (IA) is the next-generation technology that combines Robotic Process Automation with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. While traditional automation handles repetitive, rule-based tasks, IA takes it a step ahead by enabling systems to learn, adapt, and make real-time decisions.
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pagerduty

Unlocking Automation: A New IDC Report on Automation Standardization

Sep 19, 2024 By Joseph Mandros In PagerDuty
Innovation in automation is transforming what’s possible in operational dynamics at an unprecedented pace. For modern enterprises, this shift is not just a technological evolution; it’s a strategic imperative. C-suite executives and boardrooms increasingly recognize the potential of technologies like GenAI as powerful tools for enhancing productivity, reducing risk, and optimizing costs.
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puppet

MFA Configuration: How Automation Lets You Configure & Enforce MFA Compliance at Scale

Sep 18, 2024 By Robin Tatam In Puppet
You probably used multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access the device you’re using right now. Maybe your phone scanned your face or fingerprint to unlock. Maybe you got a text with a verification code while logging into your work browser profile. Configuring MFA is a go-to measure for system hardening, but MFA enforcement can get unruly, especially at the scale required by enterprise IT.
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puppet

How to Achieve Zero Trust Adoption in U.S. Government

Sep 17, 2024 By Robin Tatam In Puppet
Zero Trust adoption is critical, especially for U.S. government agencies. With changing policies and requirements, it can be tough to stay ahead of everything you need to know. We’ll provide a high-level overview of Zero Trust adoption + share how automation can help you achieve compliance.
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pagerduty

Revolutionizing Remote-Location Operations With PagerDuty Automation

Sep 17, 2024 By Joseph Mandros In PagerDuty
Consistency is key in today’s ultra-competitive retail environment. Whether a customer walks into a store in New York City, London, or Tokyo, or shops online, they expect the same seamless and personalized shopping experience, regardless of where they are. These consistent experiences are what creates customer loyalty and keep them coming back From an IT perspective, delivering these experiences across multiple distributed locations presents unique challenges.
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