Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

During the past few months while working on Icinga DB, we have tested our existing libraries on how we work with data and how we present them programmatically. Maybe it was because we were doing something new with Icinga DB or we weren’t entirely happy with the existing code. In any case, it was time for new libraries :-). The IPL – Icinga PHP Library was born. And we want to share that work starting with ipl/Sql an OOP SQL abstraction for PHP.

Gradually, brick by brick, we will get the necessary toolkit to build a company and maintain it. If on previous occasions we have emphasized the importance of monitoring a company’s IT systems, today we will review what it is and what advantages we when we centralize monitoring. The goal is pretty simple: we want to have maximum control over the IT of a company moving unbridled to the summit.

Close to IT 400 professionals from some of the most prominent enterprises in the retail, financial, technology, pharma and manufacturing industries attended our “Face of IT Ops from Home” virtual conference, enjoying a keynote session featuring Sony Playstation and State Farm Insurance, and three breakout sessions with Ulta Beauty, AWS and BlackRock 3.

Taking economics into account Most enterprises consider economics when deciding which AIOps platform to purchase. Often, their conception of economics is narrow, reduced to the resolution of three issues: 1) the cost of the technology; 2) its ability to replace human labor; and 3) its ability to displace deployed products and, hence, defray future maintenance and subscription charges. In other words, AIOps economics becomes almost entirely a matter of cost.

IT leaders need a well-defined strategy for managing patches and upgrades for software applications and technologies. Planned patch management rollouts help combat security vulnerabilities as unpatched systems are highly vulnerable to data breaches and attacks from hackers. During Covid-19, IT organizations have struggled to keep systems updated using remote teams, especially as software vendors have recently released a record number of patch fixes and upgrades.

The cybercrime threatscape is constantly changing as hackers adapt and repurpose the use of many different types of tools and attack vectors, and a recent report by Kaspersky Lab indicates that the use of remote administration tools (RATs) has increased during 2018. RATs are commonly developed as legitimate software suites with bundled functionalities to support system administrators and other power users.

There has been a lot of talk about transforming employees’ digital experiences, but what does this really mean, and how can it be achieved? This is what Nexthink and its partner Fujitsu are solving each and every day. Employee experience refers to the evaluation that employees make regarding their work environment.

If you have been using computers for some time now, you probably have fond memories of this or that piece of software from the past, an application or a game that was fun, useful and just plain great, but which isn’t available any longer.

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. It assists in identifying where important events happened during the loading process. They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site.

Vue.js is a front-end JavaScript framework that you can use to build progressive Single-Page Applications (SPAs). Evan You, an ex-Google employee, created Vue.js in 2014 with an idea of building a lightweight solution that had the best features from Angular and React. Since the day of its inception, Vue.js has been steadily gaining in popularity. Currently, its user base is triple to that of Angular, and a little more than Facebook’s React framework.