Vendor Forum

November 07, 2022
Emily Arnott
Blameless

Incidents should be your best friend. It sounds like a controversial statement. It sounds like a lot of unnecessary work. The truth is, for companies engaged in delivering any online or digital experience, taking this point of view is absolutely E-S-S-E-N-T-I-A-L ...

November 02, 2022
Colin Fallwell
Sumo Logic

SRE is now an essential engineering practice for enterprises seeking to accelerate digital transformations to digital-first brands. So how can companies empower SREs and adopt the model across their entire IT organizations to improve digital experiences and ultimately the business? It first starts with addressing the workforce gap and then breaking down team silos ...

November 01, 2022
Hannes Lenke
Checkly

Configuring application Monitoring as Code (MaC) is the next logical step in modern software development ... Let's look at some key reasons why monitoring as code is here to stay ...

October 13, 2022
Rachna Srivastava
VMware

VMware's 2022 State of Observability found that companies are still grappling with increasing complexity and a lack of visibility — with 97% reporting challenges in their ability to monitor cloud application environments. In this blog, I'll outline key takeaways, including how cloud-native apps have rapidly grown in complexity, why the perception of observability has shifted, and what challenges still need to be addressed ...

October 12, 2022
Amol Dalvi
Nerdio

A recent survey indicated over half of the respondents (58%) expected to have AVD technology in production within two years ... While AVD is gaining traction, IT teams are looking for ways to better deliver application performance and satisfy the end user's expectations of seamless productivity. The survey found the two biggest complaints from IT pros are slow application performance (47%) and slow logons (40%). Supporting video calls, more efficient monitoring of all AVD elements and solving latency problems are among other key issues ...

October 11, 2022
Andreas Grabner
Dynatrace

IT teams need modern technologies to identify valuable data insights from the oceans of data businesses collect today, according to a new report. The report found that 71% of the 1,303 chief information officers (CIOs) and other IT decision makers surveyed say the colossal amount of data generated by cloud-native technology stacks is now beyond human ability to manage ...

October 05, 2022
Jason Walker
BigPanda

IT operations is a metrics-driven function and teams should keep score as a core practice. Services and sub-services break, alerts of varying quality come in, incidents are created, and services get fixed. Analytics can help IT teams improve these operations ...

October 04, 2022
Jason Walker
BigPanda

Big Data makes it possible to bring data from all the monitoring and reporting tools together, both for more effective analysis and a simplified single-pane view for the user. IT teams gain a holistic picture of system performance. Doing this makes sense because the system's components interact, and issues in one area affect another ...

October 03, 2022
Jason Walker
BigPanda

IT engineers and executives are responsible for system reliability and availability. The volume of data can make it hard to be proactive and fix issues quickly. With over a decade of experience in the field, I know the importance of IT operations analytics and how it can help identify incidents and enable agile responses ...

September 29, 2022
Phil Tee
Moogsoft

Our digital economy is intolerant of downtime. But consumers haven't just come to expect always-on digital apps and services. They also expect continuous innovation, new functionality and lightening fast response times. Organizations have taken note, investing heavily in teams and tools that supposedly increase uptime and free resources for innovation. But leaders have not realized this "throw money at the problem" approach to monitoring is burning through resources without much improvement in availability outcomes ...

September 27, 2022
Stephen Amstutz
Xalient

Users have high expectations around applications — quick loading times, look and feel visually advanced, with feature-rich content, video streaming, and multimedia capabilities — all of these devour network bandwidth. With millions of users accessing applications and mobile apps from multiple devices, most companies today generate seemingly unmanageable volumes of data and traffic on their networks ...

September 26, 2022
Marcus Merrell
Sauce Labs

In Italy, it is customary to treat wine as part of the meal ... Too often, testing is treated with the same reverence as the post-meal task of loading the dishwasher, when it should be treated like an elegant wine pairing ...

September 22, 2022
Emily Arnott
Blameless

As we shift further into a digital-first world, where having a reliable online experience becomes more essential, Site Reliability Engineers remain in-demand among organizations of all sizes ... This diverse set of skills and values can be difficult to interview for. In this blog, we'll get you started with some example questions and processes to find your ideal SRE ...

September 21, 2022
Mike Marks
Riverbed

US government agencies are bringing more of their employees back into the office and implementing hybrid work schedules, but federal workers are worried that their agencies' IT architectures aren't built to handle the "new normal." They fear that the reactive, manual methods used by the current systems in dealing with user, IT architecture and application problems will degrade the user experience and negatively affect productivity. In fact, according to a recent survey, many federal employees are concerned that they won't work as effectively back in the office as they did at home ...

September 20, 2022
Michael Olechna
SmartBear

Users today expect a seamless, uninterrupted experience when interacting with their web and mobile apps. Their expectations have continued to grow in tandem with their appetite for new features and consistent updates. Mobile apps have responded by increasing their release cadence by up to 40%, releasing a new full version of their app every 4-5 days, as determined in this year's SmartBear State of Software Quality | Application Stability Index report ...

September 19, 2022
Vinay Chandrasekhar
Elastic

In this second part of the blog series, we look at how adopting AIOps capabilities can drive business value for an organization ...

September 14, 2022
Ishan Mukherjee
New Relic

The findings of the 2022 Observability Forecast offer a detailed view of how this practice is shaping engineering and the technologies of the future. Here are 10 key takeaways from the forecast ...

August 30, 2022
Gregg Ostrowski
AppDynamics

With hybrid work now a permanent part of the employee experience, the role of IT has taken center stage. For many organizations, business continuity relies even more on having the right technology and systems in place to support increasingly distributed teams and customers ...

August 29, 2022
Dan McCall
PagerDuty

Every business is in a constant battle to maximize efficiency, minimize toil, and scale sustainably in a moment of macroeconomic pressure. These goals are challenging in the best of times, but our current environment — continued staffing shortages, hiring freezes, and economic uncertainty — all make it significantly harder ...

August 25, 2022
Quan To
Nobl9

Businesses need happy customers in order to survive, and infrastructure teams need to meet reliability goals efficiently. Large cloud-native companies pioneered the service level objective (SLO) method to create a scalable relationship between operational staff and software services while maintaining customer loyalty and cost controls ...

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