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Why Network Automation Is an I&O Imperative

While network automation tools can help infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams improve their agility, lower their costs, and reduce the risk of manual errors, network management stubbornly remains a largely manual process. According to a recent Gartner report, less than 35% of enterprise network activities are automated today, forcing enterprises to run largely using a ClickOps model.

MSP Automation: Transform & Scale your MSP Business

MSP Automation was the main focus of our recent webinar, which covered how Managed Service Providers can transform the scalability of their businesses by removing the headaches of manual request processing. The webinar was widely attended by enterprise IT staff too , particularly those with an ethos of delivering an experience (rather than a service level). The same principles apply, so here’s an overview of what was covered during the session.

Squadcast + HaloPSA Integration: Enabling Streamlined Incident Response & Alerting

HaloPSA is a modern and intuitive all-in-one professional services automation (PSA) solution, designed for service providers. HaloPSA’s cloud platform helps you manage your entire business, modernize customer experience and automate your service. If you use HaloPSA for PSA requirements, you can integrate it with Squadcast, an end-to-end Incident Response and Reliability Workflow platform, to route detailed alerts from HaloPSA to the right users in Squadcast.

Platform Engineering 101: Origins, Goals, DevOps vs SRE & Best Practices

Platform engineering is the practice of automating infrastructure operations and enabling self-service infrastructure capabilities within collaborative Dev, Ops and QA teams. It involves designing and building platforms, technologies and workflows that enable self-service capabilities to automatically manage, provision and operate complex modern software architecture environments.

Harnessing the Power of AZCopy with Azure Storage

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to efficiently and effectively manage vast amounts of data is crucial. As businesses increasingly rely on cloud services to store and manage their data, tools that can streamline data transfer processes become indispensable. AZCopy is one such powerful tool that, when combined with Azure Storage, can greatly simplify data management tasks while maintaining optimal performance.

Azure Resource Monitoring: The key method for Holistic Monitoring

When your organization has started to adopt Azure, the continuously increasing number of Azure resources throughout all your Development, Test, and Production subscriptions make it hard to keep on top of the health of all those resources. So, it is important to have proactive Azure resource monitoring to know when something unexpected happens.

Scaling DevOps: 6 Tips for Starting Out + 4 Pitfalls to Avoid

Growth is universally considered a good thing for businesses. Do more work, make more money, get your products and services to more people. But you’ve got to make sure your IT tools and processes can keep up. For organizations experiencing change, scaling DevOps is one of the most important factors to consider in sustaining that growth. In this blog, we’ll share some of the most salient criteria, use cases, and considerations for scaling DevOps in your organization.

Introduction to Azure Storage Service Encryption

Microsoft Azure is a leading cloud service provider that offers a wide range of storage solutions. One of its essential features is the Azure Storage Service Encryption (SSE) which helps organizations protect their data at rest. This article will dive deep into the world of Azure Storage Service Encryption, discussing various encryption types, their applications, and best practices for implementing encryption in your Azure storage accounts.

Developer environments should be cattle, not pets

Cattle, not pets is a DevOps phrase referring to servers that are disposable and automatically replaced (cattle) as opposed to indispensable and manually managed (pets). Local development environments should be treated the same way, and your tooling should make that as easy as possible. Here, I’ll walk through an example from one of my first projects at incident.io, where I reset my local environment a few times to keep us moving quickly.