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Join us in NYC for Dash 2019

Please provide me with the article "A look back at DASH 2025"! I need the text of the article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content here, and I'll ha…

Monitor all your CI pipelines with Datadog

This article details how to integrate SonarQube with Datadog to proactively monitor code quality directly within your observability platform. By connecting the two tools, developer…

ITIL 4 Update Launch is Almost Here

01/22/19 Common criticisms of ITIL's shortcomings have led to the creation of other frameworks that attempt to either replace ITIL or complement its application, depending on the I…

SolarWinds Lab Episode 72: Two Geeks and a Goddess II: Azure the Easy Way

01/21/19 IT pros are discovering a smarter way to manage servers. In this episode, Microsoft Cloud advocate Phoummala Schmitt (@ExchangeGoddess), Head Geek™ and 10-year Microsoft M…

Samanage Moves Up the List of G2 Crowd’s Best Software Companies for 2019

01/16/19 Samanage moves up six spots on G2 Crowd's top software companies in 2019. The post Samanage Moves Up the List of G2 Crowd’s Best Software Companies for 2019 appeared first…

5 Simple Ways You Can Boost Customer Satisfaction with the Service Desk

01/15/19 With a modern service management solution, you can take advantage of the following five capabilities to boost internal customer satisfaction within the service desk. The p…

Deploying and configuring Datadog with CloudFormation

This article details how to use Datadog's new CloudFormation Registry integration to define and manage monitoring configurations – like dashboards, monitors, and alerts – as infras…

How To Improve ITSM Metrics With a Millennial Workforce and Gen Z

01/11/19 In this article, we will look at some of the challenges and opportunities that ITSM can expect as the younger generations come into their own, driving businesses even furt…

Three Ways to Become Data-Centric

01/10/19 The conservation of quantum information is a theory that information can neither be created nor destroyed. Stephen Hawking used this theory to explain how a black hole doe…

How Consumerization is Changing IT Support Models

01/08/19 Expectations surrounding the services supplied by IT desks are growing as rapidly as digital work life is transforming, and the overall quality of the customer experience …

2019: The Year of Meshing Around and Creating Chaos

01/03/19 It’s that time of year again—the time to reflect on the past year and anticipate the year ahead. For a number of years now, organizations of all sizes have been running co…

The Evolution of ITIL

01/02/19 Unless you’re a current, aspiring, or former IT professional, you probably don’t know exactly what ITIL is. But it also stands to reason that if you’re reading this blog r…