Axcient gets $25m injection to compensate Channel Partners
Cloud recovery service startup Axcient has new funding and aims to fully compensate its SaaS-selling channel partners up front. Axcient offers Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) from the cloud and has...
View ArticleApplication Downtime Costs the Global 1000 $Billions per Year
My first summer internship during graduate school was with a very large IT company in Austin, Texas. My job, besides playing on the intramural golf team, was to interview users and figure out what I...
View ArticleChef And Microsoft Partner For Enterprise IT Automation
A new partnership being announced today points to the massive changes that are occurring within enterprises as they move from a monolithic, single-vendor approach towards IT to a far more heterogeneous...
View ArticleGrayLog Demo Overview
One of my favorite new tools in the IT Operations Analytics space is GrayLog. In the process of gearing up to perform my initial full blown product review I ran across a well done initial overview by...
View ArticleClosing the IT Security and IT Operations (SecOps) Gap
IT security and compliance are at the top of everyone’s agenda right now, and for good reason. The news over the past year seemed to be all about companies being breached in every industry. These are...
View Articledu Named Analytics’15 ITOA Innovation Award Winner
The Middle East region’s fastest growing telco recognized for innovation in ITSM (IT Service Management) Dubai, UAE, 9 March 2015: Nexthink®, the unique provider of real-time End-user IT Analytics,...
View ArticleInterview with Bill Keyworth, Adjuct Research Advisor at IDC on Information...
Information Technology Operations Analytics (ITOA) is already the “Next Big Thing” in Information Technology Operations (IT Operations). Leading the way with covering this new market and providing an...
View ArticleInformation Technology Operations Analytics (ITOA) Continuing to Emerge
Earlier this year, I added ITOA and IT Automation technology to the markets that I cover. Since that time, I have completed an extensive survey of the top Global 1000 CIOs on the topic of Information...
View ArticleDevOps is Trending as the New Agile IT Management Methodology
As a long time vocal advocate and user of Agile Development Methodologies, I have been very excited about the emergence of DevOps as a discipline that seems to have “some legs” to provide real ROI for...
View ArticleStonebranch Enters New Era of Company Growth and Expansion
ATLANTA, GA –(Marketwired – September 22, 2015) – Stonebranch, Inc., a leading provider of workload automation software, announced today following their Annual North America User Conference in Chicago,...
View ArticleSumo Logic Powers Digital Business With Continuous Intelligence
Delivers Machine Data Analytics and Security Through Integrations With Amazon Web Services, Accelerating Cloud Adoption REDWOOD CITY, CA — (Marketwired) — 10/01/15 — Sumo Logic, a leading secure,...
View ArticleRedHat Acquiring Open Source IT Automation and DevOps Platform from Ansible
Open source company Red Hat is acquiring Ansible, an open source provider of IT automation and DevOps solutions. The deal, according to VentureBeat, is worth more than $100 million. Red Hat plans to...
View ArticlePredictive Analytics and IT Automation is Next Frontier for Information...
Information Technology Operations Analytics (ITOA) is the application of Big Data Analytic techniques, best practices and technology to the Dark and Unknown World of Information Technology (IT). I...
View ArticleAutomation, innovation to reshape Infy’s future, says Vishal Sikka
Infosys has made steady progress in embracingautomation tools and technologies during the past two quarters which has helped it in redeploying people in other projects thus optimally using the human...
View ArticleStonebranch and Teradata Partner to Automate Data Supply Chain Beyond the...
ATLANTA, GA, Oct 15, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX) — Stonebranch, Inc., a modern workload automation solution provider that simplifies mission-critical IT business processes, announced today that it...
View ArticleA Fresh Look at Advanced IT Analytics – Why the Industry Continues to Get it...
Over the past 2 years I have expanded the markets that I cover to include Information Technology Operations Analytics (ITOA). Earlier this year, in pursuit of understanding the ITOA market, I added...
View ArticleThe Financial Services Market is Due for Big Changes
I have always spent a good amount of my career working with the CIOs and C level executives from technology vendors that support the Financial Services market. As such, I have a “soft spot” in my...
View ArticleIT Automation and ITOA Will Change and Create Jobs More Than Kill Them
I have been spending a lot of time the past 3 years working with CIOs and vendors in the IT Automation, Information Technology Operations Analytics (ITOA) and Predictive Technology / Machine Learning...
View ArticleIs There Life Beyond Automation?
In a followup to my November 9, 2015 article titled, “IT Automation and ITOA Will Change and Create Jobs More Than Kill Them,” I wanted to pass on a brilliant and informative yet funny article on the...
View ArticleCirba’s Software-Defined Infrastructure Control Now Supports EMC® Storage
Toronto, Ontario – November 18, 2015 – Cirba Inc., the leading provider of software-defined infrastructure control solutions, today released integration to EMC® ViPR® SRM, enabling organizations to...
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