Vendor Forum

September 09, 2024
Cassius Rhue
SIOS Technology

For mission-critical applications, it's often easy to justify an investment in a solution designed to ensure that the application is available no less than 99.99% of the time — easy because the cost to the organization of that app being offline would quickly surpass the cost of a high availability (HA) solution ... But not every application warrants the investment in an HA solution with redundant infrastructure spanning multiple data centers or cloud availability zones ...

September 05, 2024
Abby Ross
Hydrolix

The edge brings computing resources and data storage closer to end users, which explains the rapid boom in edge computing, but it also generates a huge amount of data ... 44% of organizations are investing in edge IT to create new customer experiences and improve engagement. To achieve those goals, edge services observability should be a centerpoint of that investment ...

September 04, 2024
Ronda Cilsick
Deltek

The growing adoption of efficiency-boosting technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) helps counteract staffing shortages, rising labor costs, and talent gaps, while giving employees more time to focus on strategic projects. This trend is especially evident in the government contracting sector, where, according to Deltek's 2024 Clarity Report, 34% of GovCon leaders rank AI and ML in their top three technology investment priorities for 2024, above perennial focus areas like cybersecurity, data management and integration, business automation and cloud infrastructure ...

August 29, 2024
Mehdi Daoudi
Catchpoint

The consequences of outages have become a pressing issue as the largest IT outage in history continues to rock the world with severe ramifications ... According to the Catchpoint Internet Resilience Report, these types of disruptions, internet outages in particular, can have severe financial and reputational impacts and enterprises should strongly consider their resilience ...

August 27, 2024
Bill Lobig
IBM

When an IT issue is not handled correctly, not only is innovation stifled, but stakeholder trust can also be impacted (such as when there's an IT outage or slowdowns in performance). When you add new technology investments and innovations into the mix, you have a recipe for disaster ...

August 26, 2024
John Astorino
Auvik

To get a better understanding of the top issues facing IT teams in financial services, Auvik recently released its 2024 Financial Services IT Trends Report ... Not surprisingly, the experience of FinServ IT teams is significantly impacted by the onslaught of cyberattacks facing financial services organizations as well as the complex regulatory environment of this industry ...

August 22, 2024
James Millington
IGEL

The CrowdStrike outage serves as a potent illustration of the risks associated with complex security environments. Enterprises are increasingly advised to consider simpler, more robust solutions that do not rely heavily on reactive security measures ...

August 15, 2024
Lori MacVittie
F5 Networks

Optimizing the performance of applications remains a top challenge for most organizations, particularly when those applications are spread across a hybrid IT estate that includes core, public cloud, and edge. Even if there were a magic performance wand, organizations would still need to know there was a problem and then do something about it — at Internet speed ...

July 30, 2024
Tucker Callaway
Mezmo

In today's digital age, telemetry data (i.e., logs, metrics, events, and traces) helps provide insights into system performance, user behavior, potential security threats, and bottlenecks ... To maximize telemetry data utilization, organizations need to focus on establishing trust in their telemetry pipelines. Here are seven ways telemetry pipelines can help build confidence in data ...

July 24, 2024
Peter Pezaris
New Relic

In June, New Relic published the State of Observability for Energy and Utilities Report to share insights, analysis, and data on the impact of full-stack observability software in energy and utilities organizations' service capabilities. Here are eight key takeaways from the report ...

July 23, 2024
Melissa Burroughs
Alteryx

The rapid rise of generative AI (GenAI) has caught everyone's attention, leaving many to wonder if the technology's impact will live up to the immense hype. A recent survey by Alteryx provides valuable insights into the current state of GenAI adoption, revealing a shift from inflated expectations to tangible value realization across enterprises ... Here are five key takeaways that underscore GenAI's progression from hype to real-world impact ...

July 18, 2024
Asaf Yigal
Logz.io

As software development grows more intricate, the challenge for observability engineers tasked with ensuring optimal system performance becomes more daunting. Current methodologies are struggling to keep pace, with the annual Observability Pulse surveys indicating a rise in Mean Time to Remediation (MTTR). According to this survey, only a small fraction of organizations, around 10%, achieve full observability today. Generative AI, however, promises to significantly move the needle ...

July 16, 2024
Mike Marks
Riverbed

Enterprises are putting a lot of effort into improving the digital employee experience (DEX), which has become essential to both improving organizational performance and attracting and retaining talented workers. But to date, most efforts to deliver outstanding DEX have focused on people working with laptops, PCs, or thin clients. Employees on the frontlines, using mobile devices to handle logistics ... have been largely overlooked ...

July 09, 2024
Brian Adler
Flexera

At the forefront of this year's findings, from the Flexera 2024 State of ITAM Report, is the critical gap between software asset management (SAM) and FinOps (cloud financial management) teams. This year, 32% of SAM teams reported having significant interactions with FinOps teams. While this marks an improvement from last year's 25%, it highlights the persistent challenge of integrating these two essential functions ...

July 08, 2024
Destiny Bertucci
Auvik

Information technology serves as the digital backbone for doctors, nurses, and technicians to deliver quality patient care by sharing data and applications over secure IT networks. To help understand the top IT trends that are impacting the healthcare industry today, Auvik recently released a companion analysis for its 2024 IT Trends Report ...

June 26, 2024
Scott Henderson
Celigo

IT and Operations leaders across a range of industries are enthusiastically — and nearly unanimously — on board with artificial intelligence ... However, more than 1,200 global enterprise Operations and IT leaders surveyed in May also cited barriers to the widespread, enterprise-wide adoption of AI, identifying several issues they need to address before they can take full advantage of everything AI has to offer ...

June 24, 2024
David Lavin
Verinext

One of the key drivers today for modernizing legacy applications is to leverage the emerging capabilities of Artificial Intelligence ... In this blog, we will look at how Generative AI (GenAI) services are emerging in ways that can help reduce the effort and overall risk inherent in these initiatives ...

June 18, 2024
Arshad Shariff
ManageEngine

With the rise of digital transformation and the increasing reliance on applications for business operations, the need for application performance management (APM) has become more critical ... This blog explains what APM is all about, its significance and key features ...

June 17, 2024
Ritu Dubey
Digitate

Generative AI (GenAI) has captured significant attention by redefining content creation and automation processes. Despite this surge in GenAI's popularity, it's crucial to highlight the continuous, vital role of machine learning (ML) in underpinning crucial business functions. This era is not about GenAI replacing ML; rather, it's about these technologies collaborating to supercharge intelligent automation across industries ...

June 12, 2024
Peter Pezaris
New Relic

In May, New Relic published the State of Observability for IT and Telecommunications Report to share insights, statistics, and analysis on the adoption and business value of observability for the IT and telecommunications industries. Here are five key takeaways from the report ...

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