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Civo Update - May 2022

In April, we made Civo Academy publicly available for all. This was a pivotal step to put developers first so anyone with an interest can learn everything they need to know to create and maintain their Kubernetes environment. We also released a new report called "The Cost of Cloud", a white paper looking into the complexity of cloud costs for businesses and alternatives beyond the hyperscalers.

4 Different Ways to Ingest Data in AWS OpenSearch

AWS OpenSearch is a project based on Elastic’s Elasticsearch and Kibana projects. Amazon created OpenSearch from the last open-source version of ElasticSearch (7.10) and is part of the AWS system. The key differences between the two are topics for another discussion, but the most significant point to note before running either distribution is the difference in licenses. ElasticSearch now runs under a dual-license model, and OpenSearch remains open-source.

Incident Commanders: where are they now?

BigPanda gives the Incident Commander award to IT Ops superstars—people who go above and beyond in this high-pressure, critical line of work. In 2021, Ben Narramore, Director of Operations/Service Management at PlayStation was a recipient for his ability to handle high-impact global incidents with exemplary professionalism and skill. Let’s find out what he’s been up to…

What is ITIL Demand Management? An Introduction

Predicting consumer demand and ensuring you have the resources to support that is key to the success of any organization. The same is true for IT, and this is where ITIL demand management comes in. Demand management is an ITIL process that interfaces with multiple processes and manages expectations on both customer and service provider ends. Let’s explore the demand management process, what it entails, and what good demand management looks like.

ScienceLogic: Automate and Virtualize the NOC: A Gannett/USA TODAY Network Case Study

Gannett - the largest media publisher in America and publisher of USA Today - aims to run its IT Operations at optimum efficiency. Following multiple acquisitions/mergers, Gannett was faced with duplicative datacenters, each with discrete platforms, tools, and teams. Like many public companies, mounting pressure to "do more with less" drove IT leadership to identify ways to cut costs and eliminate redundancies. Consolidation and automation of manual processes became a critical necessity to manage its globally distributed and diverse hybrid cloud environment. Join our webinar to hear Gannett share their successful journey with ScienceLogic to automate and virtualize its Network Operations Center.

ScienceLogic: AIOps Means Business: IT Innovation for Competitive Edge

IT technical talent, already in high demand, is now at a critical shortfall. The global Great Resignation magnifies the existing talent shortage which in turn heightens the need for automation. Digital transformation initiatives in hyperdrive, stumble when IT talent is hard to source and swamped with routine tasks. At the same time, businesses can't tolerate operational delays and service disruptions.

Cribl: I Spy Another Surprise

The year is 2014...and even though you are pissed Apple put the whole U2 album on the iPhone...you keep catching yourself singing an oldie but goodie from U2 the next day... But I still...haven't found...what I'm looking for... Look no further. Join us on May 25th at 10:30am PT as we unveil some exciting news and the next product joining the Cribl suite in our observability architecture.