Is the SaaS Era Coming to an End?

The Software as a Service (SaaS) era is ending—at least, that’s what…

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Improving Incident Response by Uniting Technical & Non-technical Teams

Pre-planning and practicing internal communication in anticipation of the next incident is so crucial to improving your overall organizational response to incidents.

Words Matter

One of my biggest pet peeves with AI is the word itself. Words matter, especially in IT. Whether you’re trying to nail down a scope of work for a project,…

7 Most Useful Ticket Automation Rules

Automating processes within your service management strategy reduces repeat work to make it easier for your team to get stuff done. Your service management solution should allow you to customize…

Application Performance Monitoring: APM In An Agile World

Hopefully, you have been following along with this series and finding some useful bits of information. We have covered traditional APM implementations in part one, part two, and part three. In this post,…

12 Red Flags That Your IT Help Desk Solution is Behind the Times

Take a long, critical look at your IT help desk solution to see if it enables your organization to meet a growing list of demands. If you find any of…

Silo-Busting and Dream-Dashing; More Fun With Automation

With the popularity of Agile methodologies and the ubiquity of people claiming they were embracing NetOps/DevOps, I could swear we were supposed to have adopted a new silo-busting software-defined paradigm…

Why I’m Not Worried About Skynet

I’m 98% confident if you ask three data scientists to define Artificial Intelligence (AI), you will get five different answers. The field of AI research dates to the mid-1950s, and…

The Evolution of Network Operations

When I first began this post, my thinking revolved around the translation problems of a declarative approach to network operation, but having only procedural interfaces to work with. Further thought…

AI-nxiety

So far I’ve written about my love and hatred of what AI can do for me (or cost me) as a network owner. This post is going to cover why…

A Strong Customer Community Is Critical When Optimizing Innovation

Having a strong customer community for feedback and ideation is critical when optimizing innovation. It supports product strategy while removing blinders to product deficiencies and allowing a democratic approach to…