In the dynamic landscape of IT operations, incidents are bound to occur. Incident management is a structured and proactive approach to address and resolve these unexpected events promptly and effectively. It forms a crucial component of IT service management (ITSM), ensuring smooth operations and minimizing the impact of incidents on an organization’s productivity and customer experience.

While most of the world knows us for on-call management, we’ve been hard at work expanding the PagerDuty Operations Cloud to other areas like AIOps, Process Automation and Customer Service Operations (CSOps). Underscoring our commitment to redefining digital operations management for our customers, our commitment to R&D and delivering the best products and platform has resulted in PagerDuty being recognized in 12 distinct 2023 Gartner Hype Cycle reports across nine unique categories.

A cold fact of SaaS Life™ is that you can’t make money when your product or website doesn’t work — and those lost dollars add up fast. Downtime, SLA breach paybacks, compliance fines, and other explicit costs are the easiest to quantify and they’re what most people think of when they think about incidents.

Each year, more than 296 million packages are shipped around the world via DHL and their premium service, Time Definite International. And at DHL Express Switzerland, a local unit of the international logistics and shipping company, the IT team provides solutions for tracking customs clearance progress, analytics, mobile and optical character recognition (OCR) scanning, and warehouse management on every package that moves through Switzerland.

CloudOps, or Cloud Operations, is quickly becoming the standard for managing IT operations in the cloud computing ecosystem. By transforming traditional IT operations to harness the full potential of the cloud, businesses are experiencing greater automation, collaboration, agility, and resilience. This article is a deep dive into the concept of CloudOps, its core components, the advantages it offers, and the steps necessary to implement it effectively within an organization.

Very few SaaS products exist completely independently. Between cloud service providers, payment processors, content delivery networks, and more, chances are you rely on external systems to keep your product working. When these systems fail, it can leave you feeling pretty helpless. In some cases you might have fallback options, but oftentimes all you can do is wait for recovery and clean up the fallout.