Carlos Casanova

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High-Performance IT: How IT Running Style Impacts Business Value

Carlos Casanova February 13, 2024
Style matters when running IT: too slow, and your business misses out on market opportunities; too fast, and you’re transforming operations that the business can’t fully utilize. Learn how the optimal balance of IT capabilities will let you run high-performance IT — the pursuit of continuously improving business results through technology.
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Unlock IT Operational Excellence In Seven Steps

Carlos Casanova February 12, 2024
AIOps and observability have become crucial for businesses seeking to optimize their IT operations. These technologies offer the promise of enhanced efficiency, improved decision-making, and better customer experiences. Learn how to successfully implement AIOps and observability by following a seven-step approach.
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AIOps And Observability Deliver Operational Insights

Carlos Casanova February 12, 2024
Implementing AIOps and observability solutions can be a challenging task for organizations. To ensure success, it is crucial to develop the right approach and strategy that aligns with your enterprise’s specific IT complexity and goals. Learn how you can begin exploring the best practices for AIOps and observability and the aspects that you need to consider when embarking on the delivery of these.
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Human Centricity: The Future Of IT Experience Monitoring

Andrew Hewitt January 30, 2024
IT organizations must evolve they way they monitor employee and customer experience technologies. Learn why in this blog post.
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Tap Into The Potential Of Synthetic Data For AIOps

Carlos Casanova January 19, 2024
Learn how leveraging synthetic data can help with the critical time to realize AIOps value, such as autoremediation capabilities and enhanced decision-making.
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Look! Up In The Clouds! It’s A Noun! It’s A Verb! It’s Super Observability

Carlos Casanova October 23, 2023
Insights from observability efforts are important but what happens if the word loses its meaning? The word is being used to describe everything from low level data pipeline to just recently, Generative AI. Where will it end?
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Splunk Is Good For Cisco, But Cisco Needs To Convince Splunk Customers That Cisco Is Good For Them

Allie Mellen September 22, 2023
Find out what Cisco's $28 billion planned acquisition of Splunk could mean for both observability and security.
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Rubrik Acquires Laminar: Data Resilience And Security Join Forces

Heidi Shey August 22, 2023
As security threats increase, data protection and security practices continue to merge. Data resilience firm Rubrik recently announced its acquisition of Laminar, a data security posture management (DSPM) vendor. Together, they aim to enable consistent and unified data security posture visibility that spans on-premises and cloud-based environments. Modern Data Resilience Is Increasingly A Cybersecurity Issue […]
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Process-Centric AI For IT Operations (AIOps), Q2 2023

Carlos Casanova July 14, 2023
The Forrester Wave™: Process-Centric AI For IT Operations (AIOps), Q2 2023, evaluated 11 vendors on 30 different capabilities. Read the report to see which vendor came out on top with the highest-ranked capabilities for the broadest set of organizations.
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Can Synthetic Data Help Deliver On The Promise Of AIOps?

Carlos Casanova May 9, 2023
Tools leveraging ML models in dynamic environments must be continuously fed new data in order to adapt to changing conditions and goals. They need to learn as much as possible about their new environments before being fully able and safe to provide service and ultimately deliver value. Synthetic data can help address these and other AI/ML challenges.
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Companies Have Agnosia About Experiences

Carlos Casanova March 23, 2023
We found that agnosia quite nicely describes what is happening with companies’ efforts around experience. Their inability to identify you as the same individual after having repeatedly interacted with them as a customer and user and employee over a period of time, might cause you to question your sanity when interacting with them. 
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HPE Ramps Up Hybrid Cloud Management With OpsRamp Acquisition

Carlos Casanova March 20, 2023
On Monday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its intention to acquire OpsRamp, which offers a multitenant AIOps-powered IT operations management (ITOM) solution for hybrid cloud environments. Its AIOps solution will be integrated into HPE’s GreenLake edge-to-cloud Platform. OpsRamp’s 300 employees will join HPE’s office of the CTO. Terms of the OpsRamp acquisition were not announced, […]
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Introducing The Forrester Asset Taxonomy

Carlos Casanova March 3, 2023
The definition of “asset” has broadened well beyond traditional financial boundaries in the earliest days of IT asset management. Technology stakeholders are often confused over what constitutes an asset, and the technologies to enable enterprise asset management frequently add to this confusion.
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The Landscape Of AIOps Is Changing

Carlos Casanova March 2, 2023
Understanding which vendor supports your perspective is your first step toward a successful AIOps implementation, and this Landscape report provides you with a starting point.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence For IT Operations (AIOps), Q4 2022

Carlos Casanova December 19, 2022
The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence For IT Operations, Q4 2022 evaluated 11 vendors on 35 different capabilities. Read the report to see the vendor that came out on top with the highest-ranked capabilities for the broadest set of organizations.
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The NVIDIA/Microsoft AI Supercomputer Cloud Is A No-Brainer

Tracy Woo November 18, 2022
Learn about NVIDIA's multiyear collaboration with Microsoft to build a cloud-based artificial intelligence supercomputer.
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Can You See Me Now? New Observability Reports!

Carlos Casanova November 7, 2022
Secure systems deliberately hide details and access points to fly under the radar. Poorly designed systems and poor tooling and instrumentation unknowingly expose sensitive details or hide vital operating telemetry. Be deliberate in your observability design and tooling.
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Misguided Fear Of AI And Automation: A Classic Horror Story

Carlos Casanova October 25, 2022
Classic horror movie quirks closely resemble what we’re seeing in firms looking to innovate and differentiate yet are running from rather than toward AI and advanced automation.
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You Say Tum-AY-Toe, I Say Tum-AH-Toe — What’s Your AIOps Perspective?

Carlos Casanova September 12, 2022
We all see and experience things through the lens of prior travels and encounters. This is no different from the path you choose to move forward with your AIOps implementations. An outcome of our Now Tech: Artificial Intelligence For IT Operations, Q2 2022 report was confirmation that more vendors have entered the AIOps market. I […]
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2022 AIOps Now Tech Data Overview Sheds Light On Current Capabilities

Carlos Casanova August 4, 2022
The 2022 AIOps NowTech generated a wealth of data that has been captured in the AIOps Data Overview, Q2 2022 report about AIOps software vendor capabilities. Three items from the overview report; digital experience, OpenTelemetry, and audit trails are highlighted in this blog. Read the full data overview report to learn more about the other capabilities that it covers.
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