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Without a doubt, it’s important to ask yourself: how much do you know about your IT environment? When something goes wrong, are you the first to know about it? Are you able to detect patterns among tens or hundreds of thousands of regular events? Would you know if there was a security breach straight away?

Welcome to this decade's first newsletter from ITRS Group on OP5 Monitor. What a better way to start than to share with you what we have been up to lately and what we have in store for the future. Most of you reading this have been customers of ours for a long time. Throughout these years the IT landscape has gone through a number of different phases, most recently it has been the transition to private and public cloud environments.

ITRS Group are silver sponsor of foss-north 2020, an open source conference including community days filled with workshops, hackathons, conference sessions, training sessions and fun. Hosted in Gothenburg, it provides a meeting place for the extended Nordic community. Come meet us at our ITRS Group booth! More info. at: https://foss-north.se

In the cutthroat industry of financial services, only the fairest businesses of them all can reign supreme. But it’s not easy to stay on top. Complex IT systems combined with aging technology and cyber attackers can mean businesses are all too often finding themselves at the tail-end of a systems failure wondering what went wrong. And for the “always-on” customer, no reaction time is quick enough.

Observability seems to be a topic of discussion stirring debate around the argument that observability is different than monitoring. Observability is achieved when data is made available from within the system needing monitoring. Monitoring is actually the task of collecting and displaying this data. There is another term when having the debate between observability and monitoring that seems to be forgotten and that is analysis. After the system is observable, when you have collected the data via monitoring, you need to perform analysis either manually or automatically.

The demand for the “always-accessible” applications and services continues to grow, making network monitoring a fundamental requirement and priority for today’s IT Professional. Network monitoring solutions should provide a first line of defense when applications go down or when performance begins to deteriorate. Monitoring solutions should also scale as your needs and infrastructure grow providing an “all-in-one” solution.

ITRS Group partners with Intelligencia to enable Gaming and Casino businesses to remain always-on  

More than mobile: how rapidly diversifying telcos can avoid critical overload  As industry rivals go, telecoms businesses are among the fiercest and most competitive. For key players, the race to win market share is never ending and the finish line seems nowhere in sight. And although you might be in the mindset that a little competition never hurt anyone, for telcos, this environment could leave entire IT systems down and out.