IT Systems Management and Monitoring
The IT systems management topic center is dedicated to tools and technologies that enable more visibility into IT infrastructure, integration between IT management tools, tailored alerts for IT professionals and new areas of performance monitoring and management. Look here for expert tips and tech news.
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IT Systems Management and Monitoring News
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August 10, 2018
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Aug'18
AIOps platforms delve deeper into root cause analysis
AIOps tools offer fresh insights into the root cause of IT incidents, triangulating between application outages, code changes and infrastructure issues.
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June 28, 2018
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Jun'18
IT infrastructure management software learns analytics tricks
Not every enterprise IT shop is ready to take the AIOps plunge, but IT ops automation is increasingly data-driven -- even at mainstream companies.
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June 12, 2018
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Jun'18
Splunk's VictorOps acquisition extends alerts, but narrows lanes
Splunk's purchase of VictorOps, its fifth deal in the past year, adds DevOps incident management, on-call scheduling and alerting, and opens doors into adjacent markets.
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May 18, 2018
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May'18
IT pros test out fresh crop of serverless monitoring tools
Serverless monitoring is still more of an art than a science, but tools that offer comprehensive insight into serverless infrastructure dependencies are in development.
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Application Performance Index (Apdex)
Application Performance Index, also known as Apdex, is an open standard intended to simplify measurement and reports of application performance. Continue Reading
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IT monitoring
IT monitoring is the process to gather metrics about the operations of an IT environment's hardware and software to ensure everything functions as expected to support applications and services. Continue Reading
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Modern service management, DevOps streamline app administration
DevOps and service management are synonymous in modern IT, insofar as their guidelines match. Regardless of the term, ensure organizational practices are built for today's reqs. Continue Reading
Evaluate IT Systems Management and Monitoring Vendors & Products
Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.
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Three log analytics use cases set better ops in motion
The path to more resilient, bug-free and available IT deployments is hiding in plain sight, in log data. Parse short- and long-term data these three ways to improve operations. Continue Reading
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Log analytics tools gain application performance support skills
Log analytics tools are boosting real-time capabilities to monitor application performance, and users are in the market for tools that best slice, dice and store log data. Continue Reading
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Resolve problems right with a help desk management system
Help desk management tools keep employees working after problems and outages occur. Discover the extensive benefits the right platform can provide. Continue Reading
Manage IT Systems Management and Monitoring
Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.
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ITSM automation helps advance network automation
IT service management helps close the gap between IT staff and business needs, as AI and machine learning work with ITSM automation to usher in IT and network automation. Continue Reading
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Find the ideal incident management automation tool or tools
Unless the data center floods or a digger cuts a network cable, incident management takes place via software tools. The quality of these tools determines how quickly work can resume. Continue Reading
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How the Nagios monitoring tool tracks IT environment details
Nagios users can monitor diverse components of an IT infrastructure, across Linux and Windows OSes, networks and servers, so long as they roll up their sleeves and dig into agents and plug-ins. Continue Reading
Problem Solve IT Systems Management and Monitoring Issues
We’ve gathered up expert advice and tips from professionals like you so that the answers you need are always available.
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Don't panic! The definitive guide to IT troubleshooting
IT problems can cause distress, chaos and, well, panic -- but they don't have to. These tips and tools guide admins through IT troubleshooting for the best chance of success. Continue Reading
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Sharpen IT effectiveness to go from cost center to business nexus
IT departments must work to keep user experience positive to avoid a perception as a resource vacuum. If users can't manipulate the app effectively, what does uptime matter? Continue Reading
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Monitor VDI with these top tools
VDI monitoring is critical to understand why problems occur. IT can use tools in XenApp, XenDesktop and Horizon or try third-party options from the likes of Quest Foglight. Continue Reading