GREAT NEWS for us today: As of today we are listed in the Citrix Ready Marketplace. This means our product MetrixInsight for CVAD has been verified by Citrix and is now certified as Citrix Ready!

Our ServiceNow Discovery Connector extends your ServiceNow discovery sources into SCOM, allowing you to leverage the rich management pack discoveries and wide SCOM agent deployment to populate your CMDB with everything from servers and devices to databases, clusters, and services. All with no extra agents, so you are up and running in minutes not months! Our latest version also brings with it some new features.

So, what shiny new functionality have we added for you to enjoy? As well as all the great stuff Alert Sync did before, you can now benefit from even more features: Wait Rules allow an incoming SCOM alert to be held for a specified period of time; before being evaluated against Incident Creation rules. This is really useful for those incidences when a SCOM alert might open and close itself in quick succession (like a CPU usage threshold monitor).

Over the last few days, most of us have been getting to grips with this new, albeit temporary, norm of remote working. At SquaredUp, we’ve always been able to work like this as all of the tools we use day-to-day are SaaS products or hosted in Azure, but while we’ve always had the right tools, we’ve never actually had to experience everyone being out of the office at the same time.

We are proud to announce that our SCOM ServiceNow Incident Connector has now been published in the Azure Marketplace. The OpsLogix SCOM ServiceNow Incident Connector enables you to bring service desk and monitoring data together. It provides a bi-directional connection between SCOM alerts and ServiceNow incidents.

We’re teaming up with SCOM Experts, Apajove, to bring you a ‘tuning pack’ for our fantastic, but also FREE EasyTune download, allowing you to tune an entire management pack in a matter of minutes. The Apajove tuning pack is live on our community store now and incorporates the tips and trick of the trade, which they use in their own SCOM deployments everyday; many of which have taken root in the work of the notorious Kevin Holman.

The NiCE Oracle Management Pack enables advanced health and performance diagnostics for Oracle. Health and performance measurement is displayed directly in your Microsoft System Center console. NiCE integrations into SquaredUp dashboards and Cookdowns’ Easy Tune make it even easier to tune Oracle monitoring. Leverage your existing investment, reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies that will last beyond your expectations.

Over 100 million users across 400,000 organizations use Citrix virtual apps and desktops technologies for accessing different types of business applications. There are many software products for monitoring the availability, performance, and usage of Citrix technologies. Of these, Microsoft SCOM is the most popular.

We are excited to announce the release of new versions of our two flagship products: SquaredUp for Azure version 4.5 and SquaredUp for SCOM version 4.5. Our product engineering teams have been working hard on the first big update since the launch of SquaredUp for Azure in November 2019, and have added some great new features and improvements based on customer feedback, including these beautiful cost visualizations…

We’re delighted to introduce you to guest blogger Gabriel Mora, a Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator who has worked on multiple migration projects using Azure Site Recovery and other third-party tools like Zerto and Movere. By Gabriel Mora Hi everyone, my name is Gabriel Mora and today I will be giving you some tips on migrating to Azure using a few helpful tools.