It has been clear to many IT practitioners for a while now that the fundamental nature of IT infrastructure monitoring is transforming, right alongside the rest of the IT landscape. Gartner’s latest Market Guide for IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools is a great tool for ITOM professionals, offering the market definition, market direction, key findings and recommendations for IT infrastructure monitoring tools.

Many of my fellow engineers ask me what it means to be an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer). When I tell them it’s a type of DevOps engineer, they get a glazed look in their eyes and then ask what a DevOps engineer is. I then find myself googling both job titles and reading twelve very different definitions until I reach the conclusion that these definitions vary wildly from company to company and from team to team.

As Stackery’s Ecosystems Manager, a huge part of my work revolves around meeting new people and developing relationships with them for the good of our company. I love this work not only because I’m passionate about people and serverless, but also because it keeps my curiosity muscle strong. To be good at my job, I need to do right by my personal connection to curiosity and learning— but sometimes I get off-track.

From Wikipedia: “Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority…” In developmental psychology, Maslow’s hierarchy is a classification system that reflects the universal needs of society as its base and then proceeds to more acquired emotions. Here is a graphical depiction of Maslow’s hierarchy.

If you’ve chosen Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, you’re almost certainly relying on Nutanix Prism to help you migrate, then operate, the “enterprise cloud.” There’s no doubt that Prism is an outstanding tool for managing virtual environments. But — when was the last time someone complimented you on a well-managed virtual environment. Never, right? Because that’s not your job.

Serverless has, for the last year or so, felt like an easy term to define: code run in a highly managed environment with (almost) no configuration of the underlying computer layer done by your team. Fair enough, but what is is a serverless application? A Lambda isn’t an app by itself, heck, it can’t even communicate with the world outside of Amazon Web Services (AWS) by itself, so there must be more to a serverless app than that.

With the rise of the containerization technology and increased attention from enterprises and technologists in general, more and more containerized applications have been deployed to the cloud. Moreover, research conducted by 451 Research predicts that the application container market will grow dramatically through 2020, which will continue to expand the number of containerized applications being deployed to the cloud.

“I want to optimize cloud costs, my monthly bills are running high and we are overshooting our budgets, I thought by migrating to cloud we would end up saving!” Heard that before? This is the basic question from the senior management as to how can we lower the high-infrastructure cost once on the cloud. If you are facing either or all the challenges below, this article is for you!