Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

July 2023

What is Citrix ADC, and How Do You Use It to Streamline Network Operations

The rise of complex containerized software environments sees an increased need for reliable delivery solutions like application delivery controllers (ADCs). ADCs such as Citrix function as load-balancing intermediaries within a software delivery network. They are positioned between application and user servers where they manage traffic flow via various structured and centralized processes.

How Does Networking Work with Istio?

As organizations continue to digitally transform and expand their networks via cloud and multi-cloud environments, it has become increasingly critical to protect microservices and data flow. Implementing advanced technology such as service mesh helps your team secure data networks and manage system access policies by matching user intentions to workload states. Service meshes like Istio support the latest software application trends like containerization and microservice infrastructures.

How IT Teams Leverage AIOps' Capabilities

This article is the second in a 4-part series on leveraging artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) to provide a more efficient, reliable, agile, cost-effective, and optimized IT infrastructure. If Artificial Intelligence is the ultimate multi-tool for IT operations (as discussed in our first article), then DevOps, Network Ops, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and SecOps are the teams using it.

Extend visibility wherever your business demands

Keeping up with the speed of business requires the right tools and tech. You expect efficiency gains when moving to and from the cloud, but risks and visibility gaps happen when resources are monitored by separate tools and teams. And since on-premises infrastructure is likely managed by dedicated IT teams and monitoring tools, you can’t clearly see if migrated resources perform correctly. The results involve disconnected visibility, tool sprawl, and increased MTTR.

Application Performance Monitoring vs Application Performance Management: Understanding the Differences

Ensuring optimal application performance is a Herculean task tee’d up for today’s IT operations teams. Adding to the confusion is the shared acronym of the two most common practices: While the terms are similar, the approaches and use cases are different.

Automating IT Operations with Ansible

Think about all the IT tasks you carry out in your business. Now, imagine you could automate these jobs and shift your focus to more important assignments. Ansible could prove to be a solution to your IT challenges. It’s a software tool that streamlines IT operations, freeing up resources and labor in your organization. Learn more about Ansible and how it can help your company below.

A Guide to Juniper Contrail SD-WAN

Integrating SD-WAN into your organization allows you to leverage transport services for seamless connection to applications. Various technologies facilitate this process by routing traffic between different sites. However, Juniper Network’s Contrail SD-WAN offers enhanced routing, intelligent traffic steering, zero-touch provisioning, and other features that build on the capabilities of traditional SD-WAN architecture.

Digital Experience Monitoring: What it is and Why it Matters

The art of monitoring the influence of an application’s performance on business outcomes is constantly evolving. It used to be directing IT teams to act on insights from an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution was enough to drive business outcomes. Now we know the user experience has a heavy hand in determining whether a digital platform survives or dies. An APM solution keeps tabs on the performance of application components such as servers, databases, and services.

AWS AI: Introduction to Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Comprehend

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), ever-evolving fields that are subtly and stunningly transforming our world, are now firmly rooted in most aspects of the current tech landscape and business processes. Their growth is exponential, and their effects are largely positive – fostering business endeavors, enhancing our quality of life, and shaping how we live, work, and interact.

Exciting Innovations for LogicMonitor and AWS Joint Customers

Learn more about the upcoming innovations coming for joint customers of LogicMonitor and AWS. However, as your business continues to evolve, are you adequately monitoring your hybrid cloud infrastructure? Native monitoring can sometimes fall short. There’s a need to respond to pertinent alerts, manage costs effectively, stay updated with cloud service changes, and maintain a clear understanding of your cloud data. LogicMonitor offers a solution with comprehensive visibility across both your on-premises and AWS deployments within a singular platform..

Carrier reduced MTTR and gained visibility across multiple IT environments

Hear Rich Johnston, Director of Hosting Platforms, describe Carrier’s observability goals to create a unified view of their IT environment for predictive monitoring. Rich describes Carrier’s desire to see issues before customer complaints, and how LogicMonitor implemented extensive visibility on a single platform, including multiple cloud platforms, networking, compute, storage, and more. LogicMonitor helped Carrier quickly and easily deploy dashboards to see how their technology performed, while reducing root cause analysis and shortening resolution time.

Redcentric gained flexible monitoring capabilities across multiple cloud environments

Hear Paul Mardling, Chief Technology Officer, and Ed Jackson, OSS Manager, describe Redcentric’s complex hybrid infrastructure and their difficulties with monitoring tool sprawl when their cloud deployments expanded. Redcentric used LogicMonitor to gain flexible monitoring capabilities across multiple cloud environments to keep up with developer needs. Out-of-the-box data sources and fast, agentless monitoring helped them see everything across thousands of devices in their IT estate, with excellent customer support to help at a moment’s notice.

How Schneider Electric reduced MTTI and alert noise by consolidating monitoring tools

Hear Observability and Monitoring Strategist, Arun Mandayam, describe challenges that Schneider Electric faced around data interpretation and difficulties when using multiple monitoring tools. Arun describes how LogicMonitor helped consolidate monitoring tools, enabled them to onboard new cloud accounts, network devices, and on-prem systems on a unified platform, and helped significantly reduce MTTI and alert noise.