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• Data center operations best practices checklist

  Independent experts guide you to better data center operations with tips and advice on best practices and the right management tools. Continue Reading

• Monitoring thresholds determine IT performance alerts

  An IT monitoring strategy depends on the applications and systems it governs. Static and dynamic thresholds each have benefits and drawbacks, but it's possible to find a balance. Continue Reading

• Use an IT incident management system to enable automation

  IT admins and gurus can't tackle every issue every hour of the day -- let alone predict them first. A dynamic combination of monitoring and incident management makes for better admins. Continue Reading

• Ensure container monitoring and control via smart tooling

  Don't try to stick with traditional monitoring tools when your organization matures to containers; they won't do enough. Seek out monitoring and management tools with targeted capabilities. Continue Reading

• Forgo outages with application dependency mapping

  Create a detailed map of application dependencies from the CMDB and cloud resources and help prevent unexpected outages. Continue Reading

• Reap IT automation benefits in every layer of the stack

  Automation technologies create an artificial brain for IT operations, but that won't turn skilled admins and engineers into zombies -- far from it.Continue Reading

• Nine DevOps metrics you should use to gauge improvement

  What's missing from your DevOps pilot and scale-up plans? Cold, hard, impartial numbers. Track these key metrics to ensure DevOps processes achieve stated goals.Continue Reading

• IT process improvements lurk in every onerous incident

  When an IT incident arises, the focus is often on what admins can fix in the moment, but unflappable organizations make process improvement the final step of issue resolution.Continue Reading

• DevOps support strategies for an effective, informed help desk

  In a DevOps shop, the help desk is just as important as every other group. Give them the resources they need to keep users up and running -- before you're out of a job.Continue Reading

• Cherry-pick from ITSM frameworks to achieve change control

  Don't let the horrors of ITSM implementations gone wrong turn your IT organization away from quality control and improvement. Discerning ITSM adopters know that the more frameworks there are, the merrier.Continue Reading

• Monitor IT infrastructure with an eye on customer experience

  It doesn't matter how many IT monitoring tools oversee your infrastructure; they're all looking in the wrong direction.Continue Reading

• Scale up DevOps processes against the odds

  DevOps is the change everyone wants, until it means new processes. The difficult but rewarding shift to a DevOps process flow reimagines everything from releases to incident response.Continue Reading

• Let's talk about IT infrastructure and emerging technologies

  Work closely with hardware specialists and engineers in the data center, as emerging compute, network and storage technologies have ramifications beyond the racks.Continue Reading

• What admins need to know to master containerization technology

  Running applications in containers makes sense when it comes to resource usage, but how will your operations team handle the related management tasks?Continue Reading

• A fresh approach is needed to manage containers properly

  IT operations teams can learn to manage containerized applications, but the approach and the tools are different from traditional app management practices.Continue Reading