Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

We gathered on February 10, 2020, for our Sales Kick off. We held it in Boston and, for the first time, had external speakers. We announced our president club destination. 2019 was a good year, and we were looking forward to 2020. When I went to visit some customers in Europe in late February / early March, I noticed the nervousness of the folks on the plane back from Barcelona. Some were even starting to wear masks. I landed in NY; everything was normal.

SaaS has rapidly become the go-to software and computing solution for businesses and industries across the world. While it’s costly to develop and deploy servers and infrastructure for your business out of pocket, you will be glad to hear that software-as-a-service seems to be a more affordable and more scalable solution for just about everyone. What are the benefits and drawbacks of SaaS?

The telecommunications world is in the middle of its fourth industrial revolution. Organisations are trying to bring out as many new services as possible to monetise their infrastructure, but despite their modern approach, they still own and maintain legacy — and most importantly — multi-vendor infrastructures. Due to complex organisational structures and decentralised management systems, most responsibilities are divided between multiple departments.

The Nexthink Library allows IT teams to extend and tailor their Nexthink Experience platform to cater to their specific business, IT and employee initiatives. By leveraging over 100+ out-of-the-box content packs and integration, users can use actionable content to overcome some of the most common IT challenges with ready-to-use dashboards, metrics, Engage campaigns, remote actions, targeted insights and more.

With a turbulent year and 2020 coming to its end, I’d like to thank you for your continued interest in my blog posts. In my last .conf talks I received a lot of positive feedback combined with the ask to have more posts with such content, so thanks for motivating me and here we go! Recently, my colleague Dimitris wrote about how you can set up DLTK on a AWS GPU Instance.

The Splunk Augmented Reality (AR) team is excited to share more with you. In our first AR post, "Splunk AR: Taking Remote Collaboration To The Future is Already Here," from .conf20, we talked about our new Remote Collaboration feature, which helps field workers and remote experts collaborate in AR. In today’s post, we'll talk about our advancements in Object Detection. This new feature makes it even easier to deploy Splunk AR with your assets.

Networks are rapidly becoming larger and more complex, with numerous different technologies playing into their expansion. Network mapping is increasingly important for network administrators tasked with handling these growing networks. Network mapping provides network admins with a visual map so they can check network performance, the status of connected devices, monitor the network, and analyse networks before initiating troubleshooting efforts.

Monitoring the performance of server infrastructure is crucial to any organization. While metrics such as health and availability will sometimes suffice for measuring overall efficiency, getting visibility into more details, such as the underlying processes, tasks, and scheduled jobs, is often crucial for not just identifying a performance problem but also isolating its root cause.

When investigating a complex system—or learning about it for the first time—you need to explore metrics, traces, logs, and other kinds of data. But as you navigate across different views of your data in dashboards, alert notifications, flame graphs, and so on, it can be hard to keep track of what you have already seen. When a potential issue comes up and time is tight, the last thing you need is to spend time remembering a crucial graph or finding the right browser tab.