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ROELBOB | April 17, 2024 | email, humor, parody, satire

We're going to send email messages that say, "Hope this finds you in a well" and see if anybody notices ...

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Edge Computing Requires DevOps at Scale

Mike Vizard | March 22, 2024 | convergence, devops, edge computing, MLOps, networking, OT

The rise of edge computing will drive a long-overdue convergence of DevOps, data engineering, security, networking, OT and MLOps best practices ...

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Controlling Cloud Costs With Efficient Ramp Plans

Zach Almeida-Beers | March 14, 2024 | cloud, cloud cost management, cloud costs, FinOps, resource utilization

Ramp plans are becoming a vital tool for containing cloud resources as companies try to control cloud sprawl and spending ...

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AWS Cost Management in 2024

Gilad David Maayan | February 23, 2024 | AWS costs, cloud cost management, cloud costs, FinOps, savings, spot instances

As businesses scale and diversify AWS services, it becomes crucial to manage costs to ensure cloud expenditures align with strategic objectives and budgets ...

IT Professionals Have Mixed Emotions About AI

Mike Vizard | February 14, 2024 | ai, automation, careers, devops, it, jumpcloud

A JumpCloud survey revealed IT pros are excited about the potential positives of AI, but also realize the possible negative security implications ...

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Azure Cost Optimization: A Complete Guide

Gilad David Maayan | February 1, 2024 | budget, cloud, IT spending, Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is one of the “big three” cloud providers, and is a primary part of IT expenditure for many companies. Azure cost optimization is a strategy that involves managing and controlling ...

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Mike Vizard | January 29, 2024 | careers, devops, engineer, hiring, jobs, Remote work

Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Rackner, Cogility Software and more! ...

New Relic Adds Ability to Correlate IT Events to Business Processes

Mike Vizard | January 25, 2024 | business process, change management, incident management, natural language processing, New Relic

New Relic Pathpoint enables DevOps teams to better understand the potential business impact of any change to an IT environment ...

SREs Say There’s Plenty of Room to Improve Incident Management

Mike Vizard | January 22, 2024 | catchpoint, incident management, site reliability, SRE, uptime

A global survey of site reliability engineers (SREs) found diagnosing issues is the most difficult aspect of incident management ...

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Broadcom Survey Surfaces Raft of IT Automation Challenges

Mike Vizard | January 9, 2024 | automation, Broadcom, observability, RPA, service level agreements, SLAs, SRE

A Broadcom survey found islands of automation that operate independently can cause organizations to fail to meet SLAs ...

Skillsoft Survey Sees AI Driving Increased Need to Retrain IT Teams

Mike Vizard | January 2, 2024 | ai, artificial intelligence, IT training, Skillsoft

More organizations than ever will need to invest in IT training as advances in artificial intelligence (AI) transform roles and responsibilities in the coming year ...