Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a term that’s getting attention and gaining momentum – and for a good reason. SRE takes features of software engineering and applies them to various problems in infrastructures and operations. Organizations look to build SRE teams with a couple goals in mind, including to create and increase scalability and develop solid software systems.
Today, there is an explosion of data in IT. This data explosion of critical infrastructure living in the cloud, on premises in the data center, or even orchestrated in containers can be subjected to low disk space issues. How do you respond to the challenging inconvenience of low disk space?
Automation is gaining more power every day, as organizations realize how IT processes directly impact the business and can help it grow … or, hold it back. We’re seeing a staggering climb in task-related demands for IT service management (ITSM), as volumes of work seem to multiply overnight. Organizations are reaching a point where manual process methods can put the business in jeopardy, as human IT staff cannot keep up.
More than three decades have passed since Stephen R. Covey made the world highly effective. His 1989 bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, inspired just about everyone. How could anyone pass up the chance to become highly effective by adopting just seven new habits!?
There’s no end in sight for the more-than-fair share of technological advancements the telecommunications sector has seen. And with change, comes challenges. The infrastructures that establish digital communication and connectivity that nearly everyone depends on are in regular, ongoing need of upgrades, which calls for significant investments in building and maintaining them. Much of the relevant decision-making comes from Communication Service Providers (CSPs).
Automation at its best brings an impressive list of benefits to businesses today. When applied to the right use cases, organizations gain efficiencies, streamline IT processes, reduce costs, and get their hands on greater visibility and performance.
No-code, low-code, and bring-your-own-code (BYOC) platforms refer to different types of software development approaches that cater to varying levels of technical expertise, allowing users to create applications, websites, and automate tasks with differing degrees of coding requirements.
There’s an unfortunate mistake that’s too often made when the relationship between an employee and their employer ends, and when the offboarding begins: processing the termination steps too quickly and disregarding the importance of the employee’s last few days, which can mean that behind-the-scenes procedures, like those in IT, aren’t carried out so well.
If anything’s going to decide what the future of IT automation holds, it’ll be artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI. And if this past half-year hype has proven anything, it’s that we could see some serious, game-changing surprises. Did anyone see generative AI including tools like ChatGPT coming?
How can anyone forget the photos and images of mounds of luggage sitting wherever they could find a spot at most major airports, back during the winter storm of 2022? And what about the thousands of stranded passengers in dismay during the holidays, with plans and gifts that literally couldn’t get off the ground?
