Feature Articles

June 22, 2023

The roles and activities performed by IT professionals have evolved dramatically over the past ten years due to the convergence of modern development technologies, cloud platforms, and as-a-service offerings that can significantly improve overall productivity. Today, many of these professionals find themselves in hybrid roles that combine traditional development activities with activities that formerly were associated with operations professionals who historically had few or no development-oriented responsibilities ...

May 31, 2023

Optimizing existing use of cloud is the top initiative — for the seventh year in a row, reported by 62% of respondents in the Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report ...

May 30, 2023

Gartner highlighted four trends impacting cloud, data center and edge infrastructure in 2023, as infrastructure and operations teams pivot to support new technologies and ways of working during a year of economic uncertainty ...

May 24, 2023

As SLOs grow in popularity their usage is becoming more mature. For example, 82% of respondents intend to increase their use of SLOs, and 96% have mapped SLOs directly to their business operations or already have a plan to, according to The State of Service Level Objectives 2023 from Nobl9 ...

May 23, 2023

Observability has matured beyond its early adopter position and is now foundational for modern enterprises to achieve full visibility into today's complex technology environments, according to The State of Observability 2023, a report released by Splunk in collaboration with Enterprise Strategy Group ...

May 16, 2023

Gartner identified the top 10 data and analytics (D&A) trends for 2023 that can guide D&A leaders to create new sources of value by anticipating change and transforming extreme uncertainty into new business opportunities ...

May 10, 2023

As online penetration grows, retailers' profits are shrinking — with the cost of serving customers anytime, anywhere, at any speed not bringing in enough topline growth to best monetize even existing investments in technology, systems, infrastructure, and people, let alone new investments, according to Digital-First Retail: Turning Profit Destruction into Customer and Shareholder Value, a new report from AlixPartners and World Retail Congress ...

May 04, 2023

Data downtime — periods of time when an organization's data is missing, wrong or otherwise inaccurate — nearly doubled year over year (1.89x), according to the State of Data Quality report from Monte Carlo ...

May 03, 2023

In Episode 7 of the Cybersecurity Awesomeness Podcast, Chris Steffen and Ken Buckler from EMA observe Star Wars Day ...

May 02, 2023

An uncertain economy is impacting network and security team investments, but CIOs, CISOs and IT leaders are doubling down on investment in the cloud, according to the Enterprise Network Transformation report from Aryaka ...

May 01, 2023

Built-in monitoring/native instrumentation ranked as the most important feature of an AIOps solution, cited by nearly 55% of respondents in a new study from OpsRamp, The State of AIOps 2023 ...

April 27, 2023

Digital business transformation efforts have accelerated among organizations, as 93% said they have adopted or have plans to adopt, a digital-first business strategy, according to Foundry's 2023 Digital Business Study ...

April 26, 2023

Although 78% of organizations surveyed have an observability practice in place, 91% said they face challenges that prevent them from realizing the full potential of the systems they have already deployed, according to Observability and Demystifying AIOps, a report from Chronosphere and ESG ...

April 25, 2023

DataOps as a practice is maturing, according to a survey from Unravel Data. This year, more than 44% of respondents reported they are actively employing DataOps methodologies, compared to just less than a quarter (21%) of respondents in 2022 ...

April 24, 2023

In today's digital landscape, providing a seamless customer experience (CX) has become a top priority for IT operations teams. They are increasingly turning to observability and AIOps to achieve this. However, a study conducted by ManageEngine — State of ITOM in 2023— found that organizations face several challenges while adopting both technologies ...

April 20, 2023

Almost all (98%) of senior IT leaders have been impacted by increasing cloud complexity in some capacity, potentially leading to poor IT performance, loss in revenue and barriers to business growth, according to the 2023 Cloud Complexity Report from NetApp ...

April 17, 2023

Software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) technology transformed the networking industry nearly a decade ago by allowing IT organizations to replace or supplement their expensive and bandwidth-constrained private and managed WAN services (e.g., MPLS) with public internet connectivity. SD-WAN provides security, visibility, and centralized control over these new hybrid networks. Now, a new wave of innovation has arrived with secure access service edge (SASE) ...

April 12, 2023

Many companies are unable to complete transformational work due to immature operating models and management systems, according to the 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report from Planview ...

April 11, 2023

Audience hijacking is a widespread phenomenon that is estimated to disrupt up to 15% of e-commerce site visits, according to a survey conducted by Akamai Technologies ...

April 06, 2023

When it comes to digital transactions, Americans are loyal to the experience, not necessarily the brand, according to a survey commissioned by FullStory. This research reveals that 40% of US consumers say they don't care where they buy from "as long as it works" ...

April 04, 2023

DEVOPSdigest and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) are teaming up on the Cybersecurity Awesomeness Podcast. In Episode 2, EMA experts discuss the security ramifications of ChatGPT ...

March 30, 2023

APMdigest and leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) are partnering to bring you the EMA-APMdigest Podcast, a new podcast focused on the latest technologies impacting IT Operations. In Episode 2 - Part 2 Pete Goldin, Editor and Publisher of APMdigest, discusses Network Observability with Shamus McGillicuddy, Vice President of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA ...

March 23, 2023

APMdigest and leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) are partnering to bring you the EMA-APMdigest Podcast, a new podcast focused on the latest technologies impacting IT Operations. In Episode 2, Pete Goldin, Editor and Publisher of APMdigest, discusses Network Observability with Shamus McGillicuddy, Vice President of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA ...

March 22, 2023

CIOs have stepped into the role of digital leader and strategic advisor, according to the 2023 Global CIO Survey from Logicalis ...

March 15, 2023

Harnessing the power of network-derived intelligence and insights is critical in detecting today's increasingly sophisticated security threats across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, according to a new research study from IDC ...

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