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Making Critical Incidents Impossible to Ignore - Derdack SIGNL4 - The Alerting Experts

In this episode, Doreen Jacobi talks with Henri-Paul Bourassa, IT Administrator at exo, the public transit organization serving the Greater Montréal area. Like many IT teams responsible for around-the-clock operations, Henri-Paul's team already had monitoring in place. The challenge wasn't finding issues - it was making sure the right people were alerted quickly enough to respond.

On Call During the FIFA World Cup? Here's How IT Teams Stay Connected

Watching the FIFA World Cup with friends while on call? Being on call doesn't have to mean missing out on life's biggest moments. Whether you're at a packed sports bar, hosting a watch party, or cheering on your favorite team, critical incidents can happen when you least expect them. That's why IT teams rely on OnPage's persistent, attention-grabbing mobile alerts. Unlike emails, texts, or traditional notifications that can get lost in the noise, OnPage's critical alerts are designed to break through distractions and ensure urgent issues are never missed.

Incident Management Teams: Ready for Critical Situations

A malfunction in the baggage handling system at Berlin Brandenburg Airport disrupts the conveyor network that transports luggage across the airport. With more than 70,000 passengers traveling through BER every day and flight schedules timed down to the minute, even a small disruption can quickly lead to delays, missed connections, cancellations, and high costs. Fortunately, the Incident Management team receives the alert in real time and responds immediately.
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From firefighting to forward planning: a practical route to operational innovation

Operational innovation is often treated as a back-office efficiency exercise, but in practice, it is becoming a strategic discipline. As AI moves deeper into day-to-day operations, technical leaders need a clearer way to cut toil, reduce risk and build the capacity to innovate. For many operations teams, it starts with incident management. When responders are trapped in noisy alert streams, manual escalations and fragmented workflows, innovation is pushed aside by the urgent work of keeping services available.

Top Mobile Incident Notification Systems for IT Teams 2026

Modern IT incidents don’t stick to a 9-to-5 schedule. System failures, security breaches, and performance degradations can happen at any time, and today’s distributed teams must respond instantly, wherever they are. The ability to receive, acknowledge, and manage incidents directly from a smartphone is no longer a luxury—it’s a core requirement for effective incident response in 2026.

How to Reduce On-Call Burnout in IT Teams

On-call duty is a high-stakes reality in modern IT and digital ops teams. While essential for ensuring system reliability, the chronic stress it creates doesn’t have to be a given. On-call burnout is a serious threat to your team’s well-being and your organization’s performance, but it isn’t inevitable. It’s a systemic problem, not a personal failing.

We redesigned Spike

Last Christmas, after everyone had gone quiet for the holidays, I sat down with a pen and some paper and started drawing Spike. Not the Spike we actually had, but the Spike I wanted, the one I had been carrying around in my head for a long time without ever really putting it down anywhere. A little while later I brought a few of those screens into Figma and showed them to the team over coffee one afternoon.

Vendor Outage Monitoring for MSPs: Per-Client Status Pages and Custom Dashboards

Handling client calls when a third-party vendor has an outage - this will sound familiar if you are a managed service provider (MSP). Your first instinct would be to check if the vendor's status page or social media handle shows anything, or check crowdsourced websites like Downdetector. Or even ask your client to check themselves. These approaches do not scale when you have more than a few clients, many vendor status pages to check, and clients with different stacks.