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There is confusion around the terms DevOps and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering). Indeed there is enough confusion to cause debate about what each actually is, whether they are new and what the differences are between them. This blog is about DevOps and its widespread adoption in Enterprise IT, but there are enough underlying similarities between the two that it seemed odd to mention one without the other. So what is DevOps?

If you are in an Application Support team chances are you started to experience the migration of your applications over to containers. For teams used to covering the “three pillars” of application health metrics, don’t be surprised if the engineers and dev ops teams tell you that monitoring in containerized environments will not be the same. But definitely take note if they insist that you no longer need to worry about any one of the three pillars. The three pillars that I am referring to are Metrics, Logs and Traces.

With the release of our Orchestrated Netprobe solution, collecting useful metrics from Java applications has become much easier. No longer is it necessary to manage JMX connections between Geneos and all of your applications. Instead, the Orchestrated Netprobe uses a push model where n applications publish metrics to a central agent via the Statsd protocol. This greatly reduces the operational overhead involved when spinning up new applications.

How ITRS Group London chose a charity to support for CSR and what we have done since.  We are fortunate to be a successful global software company in our 23rd year, operating from offices in 9 countries across APAC, EMEA and NA. Much of our success is of course due to having a happy and engaged workforce, which we spend a lot of time and effort on. One avenue for this is our People and Culture forum, whose remit is to sustain and develop our culture to create a great place to work.  

The pace of change might vary, but technology is an ever-evolving field. Today, enterprise-focused, business-critical IT is going through one of its periodic episodes of accelerated change. And that requires new tools to monitor, manage and control IT estates.

The Cloud has been trending as the hottest business destination for a while now. It’s scalable and flexible, with the potential to reduce IT costs. In short, it’s the must-have accessory for the ‘modern organisation’.

Time for a check-up When there are more UK banking outages than days in the year, it’s not a good sign of the health of the British financial industry. 2018 saw 375 incidents reported over a nine month period – and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is calling for a check-up.  Consumers are more reliant than ever on technology for banking services. Where once access to online banking was an exciting and convenient development of the digital age, it is now viewed as a given. Yet for millions of account holders in 2018, it wasn’t.   

When Neil Armstrong said those famous words in 1969, his boots forever imprinting the surface of the moon, it in many ways erased all that had come before and much of what was to come. The failures of those many other missions that both preceded and followed Apollo 11 are nothing in historical memory compared with that single moment.