A cautionary tale Faced with limited financing and a high burn rate, many startups focus on product development and application coding at the expense of back of operations engineering. The reasons for this focus are understandable to some extent. Companies need to develop product and unseasoned CEOs don’t always see the value in investing in … Continued
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OnPage brings Secure Critical Messaging to Telemedicine SAGE Neurohospitalist Group began in 2012 when two neurologist recognized that there was a growing shortage of neurologists. This shortage was most acute in small towns and underserved communities. So, in a call back to the aphorism of “if the mountain won’t come to Mohammed …”,the SAGE’s founders … Continued
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The Great Wall of China began construction in 7 B.C. to protect the Chinese kingdom from Eurasian warriors. Chinese soldiers would marshal forces to protect the Great Wall from enemy attack by using smoke signals to send alerts from tower to tower. This method of alerting enabled messages to be sent to garrisons hundreds of miles … Continued
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Is this the end of IT management tools? Happy holidays! Your Ops team can pack their bags. IT management and IT management tools are dead. Or at least that’s the word according to a new blog from Tech Target on AWS’s new Managed Services (MS) offering. According to the blog, AWS is launching their AWS … Continued
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IT alerting and IT monitoring are not what they used to be. In years past, software releases were scheduled a few times per year. Often, one monitoring tool would review the infrastructure and would catch and spit out alerts. Sorry, but those days are gone. Nowadays, start-ups use containers and microservices, continuous integration and delivery. … Continued
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Alert fatigue, or alarm fatigue is one of the most common challenges facing IT teams, DevOps engineers, and managed service providers (MSPs) today. When dozens (or even hundreds) of alerts arrive everyday, it becomes harder to separate the critical issues from the noise. Engineers miss sleep, teams lose focus, and sometimes the most urgent problems … Continued
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OnPage facilitates Cygnus Systems’ growth of 25% per year through efficiency, cost reduction and improved response to critical alerts By using OnPage’s cloud-based, virtual paging app in conjunction with ConnectWise, Michigan-based MSP Cygnus Systems Inc. has grown faster than Plasticman. Through OnPage integration, Cygnus has been able improve its response time to critical IT alerts , grow … Continued
read moreHow to play by the rules Email integration has been our bread and butter since we started the company in 2011. As such, we think it important to explain how using the powerful, dependable and reliable logic inherent in Microsoft Office’s email platform, allows you to easily set up a framework to get notified in … Continued
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Proper IT management requires proper incident management. Otherwise, you court Murphy’s law at your peril. In the IT world, if a server can fail, a cache overload or traffic overload the network – it will. And the consequences are significant. Many IT organizations face database, hardware, and software downtime, lasting short periods to shutting down … Continued
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Priority Alerting as a Service for MSPs Strong demand at IT Nation 2015 over the recent ConnectWise integration, spurs a new program offering for MSPs. Hot off of a hugely successful showing at IT Nation, OnPage Corporation, a leader in cloud-based Priority IT Alerting announced today the availability of OnPage’s award-winning Priority Round-Trip Alerting as a … Continued
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