Major Announcements From Splunk Bring Observability and Security to the Forefront
Observability and security have come to the forefront of IT service delivery, a convergence that was long overdue. This was the urgent theme of the 2022 Splunk conference in Las Vegas.
Atlassian Outage – Thoughts on What to Do When Your Provider Goes Down
The latest Atlassian outage goes to show that every cloud provider is prone to unplanned downtime sooner or later. While every company strives to achieve that unicorn status of zero downtime, it is almost impossible to achieve that in the face of “Unknown Unknowns.” I analyze it and offer some solutions on how to mitigate that if disaster strikes you.
In Digital Economy, You Should Fail Fast, But Must Also Recover Fast
In digital economy, you must move fast to survive. Not in six-month release cycles. But moving with fast release cycles, continuous releases, a mature CI/CD pipeline is only a portion of the solution. If you continue to break your systems at a faster rate but are unable to fix them faster as well, you are setting up for unplanned disasters that will hurt your business sooner than later. I discuss some of the fixes in this blog.
Report: Data Done Right for AIOps with RDA
Most of the AIOps companies are doing the process right, some use AI and ML properly, but most fail on how to automate data processing, or DataOps, on how to get the right data to AIOps tools at the right time. In this eBook "Data Done Right for AIOps," I discuss this in detail and offer some possible solutions including Robotic Data Automation (RDA).
What are the criteria for selecting a good AIOps solution? I have the top 5 – do you have more?
What are the criteria for selecting a good AIOps solution? How do you compare and measure the solutions one against another? Especially when there are so many solutions out there all claiming to solve the problem better than the others! In this article, I outline the top 5 criteria that all buyers should keep in mind when considering an AIOps solution. Let me know if you have more.
What does AIOps mean for the networking world?
The network is the foundation for all applications. With the increase in distributed applications and their hybrid nature, the network has become even more important. Delegating more and more tickets to AI will not only help reduce pressure on support team resources, but also fundamentally shift operations from being focused on reactive troubleshooting to proactive remediation.
The #1 Reason AI/ML Projects Fail in Your Organization…
The shine on AI and ML projects has never been brighter. The C-suite is excited about the prospects of these projects and is throwing money at them. Why then, with all this enthusiasm, can’t AI/ML projects gain more traction across the business? Why are so many of them failing?
The short answer: your business executives are not getting timely insights or sometimes even the right insights.
Edge visibility & architecture chat with Mark Thiele, CEO, Edgevana.
I am very honored to be part of the Edgevana podcast series talking to the legendary Mark Thiele on various edge, AI, AIOps, total observability at edge, and other related topics.
AIOps Has a Data(Ops) Problem
Modern complex systems are easy to develop and deploy but extremely difficult to observe. Their IT Ops data gets very messy. If you have ever worked with modern Ops teams, you will know this. There are multiple issues with data, from collection to processing to storage to getting proper insights at the right time.
Report: Observability deep dive report for Zebrium
Summary I did a deep dive vendor research report on Zebrium which specializes in automatic root cause analysis using machine leaning. Quick summary from the report: Zebrium is an Observability/AIOps platform that uses unsupervised machine learning to auto-detect software problems and automatically find root causes, reducing manual labor and speeding […]
