IT Administration

Datadog Cloud Security Platform Advances DevSecOps
Datadog has launched a Datadog Cloud Security Platform that promises to advance DevSecOps by identifying potential threats using the same agent software many DevOps teams already rely on to instrument applications. Renaud ...

Why You Should Embrace Incidents and Ditch MTTR
The cliché is that everyone in IT hates incidents, and the natural reaction when assembling incident response metrics is to look for numbers that you can lower over time. Fewer incidents and ...

Visualize Logs to Get More Value from Data
Why do you keep logs? Regardless of the type of logs we're talking about, you keep them because you expect them to provide some value for the organization. Maybe the logs will ...

Using ML/AI to Support Infrastructure Monitoring
Successful infrastructure monitoring enables IT teams to ensure constant uptime and performance of their company's systems. Technologies like machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) benefit infrastructure monitoring by more quickly collecting ...

CloudBolt Adds Cloud Cost Tool to Hybrid Management Platform
CloudBolt Software this week added cost management capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure public clouds along with codeless integrations with additional platforms to its hybrid cloud management platform. Grant ...

IT Ops Takes Center Stage
When people talk about the last 18 months, most will remember it as a disruptive time when nothing felt certain. Yet, for many IT Ops and network operation center (NOC) leaders, it ...

The Evolution of SRE and Developer Roles
As an industry, we’ve seen cultures and roles shift throughout IT teams — specifically, the role of ITOps site reliability engineers (SREs), various developer roles and the culture of DevOps. Most of ...

ServiceNow Acquires Lightstep to Gain Observability Platform
ServiceNow today announced it has acquired Lightstep as part of an effort to add an observability platform to its IT operations portfolio. Terms of the deal, expected to close this quarter, were ...

ServiceNow Shifts to Single Unified Agent
ServiceNow today unveiled an Agent Client Collector (ACC) that makes it possible for IT teams to capture data from software, hardware and cloud infrastructure. Jeff Hausman, vice president and general manager for ...

Survey Shows Acceleration of Centralized IT Management
An OpsRamp survey published this week suggests large enterprises are looking to finally unify IT management at at time when it is becoming increasingly complex. OpsRamp, a provider of an IT management ...

Agile Divide Between IT and Business Is Narrowing
A global survey of 1,350 business and IT executives conducted by Jigsaw Research on behalf of NTT Ltd., a provider of IT services, suggests organizations are a lot more agile in the ...

What Amazon’s New CEO Means for IT’s Future
Amazon is placing its bets on the future of cloud. The announcement that CEO Jeff Bezos will be stepping down and passing the torch to Amazon Web Services (AWS) leader Andy Jassy ...

