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Moogsoft: The Business Value of AIOps

AIOps is helping organizations transform and build virtual NOCs empowering their Ops teams to work smarter from anywhere, especially during this pandemic. Angeline MacIvor is an AIOps aficionado who has helped many enterprises swiftly transform how their IT Ops teams collaborate and monitor their IT environments, resulting in concrete business improvements. In this session, she will present real-life AIOps use cases and showcase the business benefits her customers attained.

Moogsoft: Maximizing Efficiency of your Virtual NOC with Dashboards

It can be challenging for Ops leaders in a virtual NOC to keep track of the big picture, such as how teams and individuals are meeting objectives like reducing downtime and maintaining service availability. This session explains how Moogsoft AIOps' powerful pre-built dashboards give everyone - operators, teams, managers - real-time visibility and insights into NOC performance. Now, even remote IT staff can easily access critical information that was previously only available in a physical NOC.

Moogsoft: How AIOps Optimizes Operational Workflows in a Virtual NOC

Forced to work from home, IT Ops teams must still communicate and collaborate effectively in a virtual NOC environment, so they can remain productive and prevent outages. This session explains how Moogsoft AIOps automates and streamlines the workflows of remote IT Ops teams. In a demo, attendees will see how faster MTTR is achieved by eliminating false positives, pinpointing root causes, engaging the right individuals and leveraging past knowledge for precise solutions.

Moogsoft: Dynamic Topology Builder: Simple as 1-2-3

Today more than ever, remote Ops teams need full visibility into their IT environments, as they strive to prevent outages of key digital services. This session focuses on Dynamic Topology Builder, a new feature in Moogsoft Enterprise 8.0 that provides insights into the overall health of infrastructures, including networks, cloud instances and applications.

Monitor Sidekiq with Datadog

Sidekiq is a Ruby framework for background job processing. Developers can use Sidekiq to asynchronously run computationally intensive tasks—such as bulk email sending, payment processing, and data importing—to help speed up the response times of their applications. If you’re using Sidekiq Pro or Enterprise, Datadog’s integration helps you monitor the progress of your jobs and the applications that depend on them, all in a single platform.

Monitor Windows containers on Google Cloud with Datadog

Many organizations already use Docker to containerize their Windows applications and often run mixed Windows and Linux container environments to support complex architectures. With Kubernetes’s support for deploying clusters with Windows nodes, organizations can leverage the orchestration platform to easily automate container provisioning, networking, scaling, and more for their Windows applications.

Securely execute a BYOD policy for your remote employees

From global pioneers to budding startups, almost every organization around the globe has adopted a mandatory work-from-home routine due to the COVID-19 outbreak. This shift has brought up numerous questions for decision-makers: How are we going to pull this off? Is work-from-home strategy feasible? Is our network security going to be compromised? Is BYOD the solution?

Everything I need to know about coping with crisis, I learned from the Agile Manifesto

We’re many weeks into the COVID-19 crisis and, I don’t know about you, but things still feel chaotic to me. Part of it is trying to work from home while also homeschooling a 6-year old and 9-year old. Part of it is trying to keep up with all the recommendations and requirements from our public health officials. The big reason things feel chaotic to me, though, is all the uncertainty.

Working with Solr Plugins System

Apache Solr was always ready to be extended. What was only needed is a binary with the code and the modification of the Solr configuration file, the solrconfig.xml and we were ready. It was even simpler with the Solr APIs that allowed us to create various configuration elements – for example, request handlers. What’s more, the default Solr distribution came with a few plugins already – for example, the Data Import Handler or Learning to Rank.