Application monitoring is experiencing a sea change. You can feel it as vendors rush to include the phrase “root cause” in their marketing boilerplate. Common solutions enhance telemetry collection and streamline workflows, but that’s not enough anymore. Autonomous troubleshooting is becoming a critical (but largely absent) capability for meeting SLOs, while at the same time,… Continue reading Observability: It’s Time to Automate the Observer
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Observability: It’s Time to Automate the Observer
Importance of Network Compliance for MSPs The managed services provider (MSP) industry is in something of a renaissance. By some estimates, the MSP market was sized at $243 billion in 2021 and is forecast to grow by nearly 33%, reaching nearly $355 billion by 2026. That’s good news for firms in the business of providing… Continue reading Top 5 Reasons Why Network Compliance Should Be a Major Focus for MSPs
What Is IT Change Management?
But those traditional organizations, and other tech-focused enterprises, still need good IT people to run their technology estates up to expectations. Meanwhile, technical professionals—recognizing the opportunity—have poured fuel on this employment fire by leaving their previous jobs in favor of places and positions that offer a better work-life balance. The Great Resignation, as the employment… Continue reading Cisco Live Preview: Limiting Operational Disruptions with AIOps
Cisco Live Preview: Limiting Operational Disruptions with AIOps
What to Do When an Incorrect Change Is Made Today we’re going to look at ways to mitigate the impact of poor change management, or somebody accidentally making an incorrect change. What we have set up here is in the same environment. I have another policy rule that checks that all devices are only using… Continue reading Minimize MTTR to Mitigate Impact of Change Management
Minimize MTTR to Mitigate Impact of Change Management
What are CMDB, Asset Management, and Incident Management? And why is having clean, accurate data so important to an organization?
CMDB vs. Asset Management: Differences Explained
1. AIOps in network management has expanded and evolved. This article by Forbes describes the evolution and expansion of AIOps in network management. Expected to be worth more than $40 billion by 2026, AIOps solutions are paving the way for improved IT operations. A major factor driving this is that traditional operations management models are… Continue reading News Roundup, June 3: What’s Happening in AIOps, ITOps, and IT Monitoring
News Roundup, June 3: What’s Happening in AIOps, ITOps, and IT Monitoring
Native machine learning for ElasticSearch was first introduced as an Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) feature in 2017. It came from Elastic’s acquisition of Prelert, and was designed for anomaly detection in time series metrics data. The Elastic ML technology has since evolved to include anomaly detection for log data. So why is a new approach… Continue reading Elasticsearch Machine Learning -An Improved Approach Using Correlated Anomaly Detection To Find Root Cause
Elasticsearch Machine Learning -An Improved Approach Using Correlated Anomaly Detection To Find Root Cause
You see a lab environment set up with Restorepoint managing the same set of Cisco devices synchronized between the two platforms, and Restorepoint is collecting configurations from those devices. On the Restorepoint side, we have set up a simple security policy. In a real production environment, you would use a policy like this to check… Continue reading See How Restorepoint Helps You Remediate After a Network Breach
See How Restorepoint Helps You Remediate After a Network Breach
Technology professionals, already in high demand before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, are in even shorter supply today thanks to the Great Resignation. This shortage of IT talent is exacerbating the difficulties associated with a number of top tech challenges organizations already face, as identified by EMA research, including: Lack of automation; Gaps in… Continue reading AIOps Means Business: IT Innovation for a Competitive Edge