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SolarWinds Finds 70% of U.K. Tech Pros Need to Develop Skills to Confidently Manage Environments by 2024; Over 78% Lack Time to Train

SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2019: Skills for Tech Pros of Tomorrow examines confidence, current and future skillsets, career development, and barriers to career success. Tech pros still prioritize hybrid IT and security and look to develop deeper understanding in areas like AI and data science. According to more than 80 percent of tech pros, more training, time, and budget is needed to develop skills to manage environments in the next three to five years.

JBS Adopts a Monitoring and Operation Platform Compatible with Microsoft Azure for Its Managed System Service and Renews JBS Original Services With Cloud and Hybrid Environment Strengths

(Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative: Yukihiro Makita, President; hereinafter “JBS”) has adopted OpsRamp, an operation platform suitable for Microsoft’s cloud services as an operation platform for its enterprise outsourcing service, the MATRIX for Managed System Services, and renewed its services on January 29, 2019.

Atlassian acquires AgileCraft to scale agile to the enterprise

We’ve heard from our enterprise customers that these problems are really hard to tackle – and they need our help along the way. That’s why we’re excited to share we’ve entered into an agreement to acquire AgileCraft, a leader in enabling scaled agile transformations. Many Atlassian customers, including AT&T, Anthem, NCR, TIAA, and Duke Energy trust AgileCraft to scale their teams’ agile practices.

SolarWinds Extends IT Operations Management Leadership to Include Intelligent Anomaly Detection

New capability in Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) 12.1 accelerates problem identification; accompanied by broad portfolio updates to improve monitoring support for private cloud and converged infrastructure

OpsRamp Delivers Greater Service Centricity, Expanded AIOps and Cloud Native Monitoring

OpsRamp, the service-centric AIOps software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for the hybrid enterprise, today announced new topology maps, enhanced artificial intelligence for IT operatzions (AIOps) features and new monitoring capabilities for cloud native workloads.

Mergers & Acquisitions: Getting Your IT Integration Strategy Right Post-Acquisition

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in the private sector have been experiencing unprecedented growth, not only in terms of the number of yearly global transactions, but also in terms of their value. M&As are also well-reputed for their exceptionally high failure rates, as highlighted by the Harvard Business review in 2016: “…companies spend trillions on acquisitions every year. Yet study after study puts the failure rate of mergers and acquisitions somewhere between 70% and 90%”.