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This eBook digs into the significant challenges that IT organizations and businesses face if they let monitoring tool sprawl get out of control.

One can justifiably say that virtualization is a mature technology. It has formed the basis for Cloud computing, and it epitomizes the continuous service delivery and consumption model that beckons in the era of IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS). For the most part, the benefits of virtualization, such as high availability, virtual machine (VM) mobility, and consolidation, have been thoroughly documented and are valued by businesses of all kinds.

According to The Ponemon Institute in its annual study, the average cost of a data breach is roughly $3.86 million USD, or an average of $148 USD per data record stolen1 . This number has increased from the previous year’s report, showing that breaches are growing costlier to businesses that get successfully attacked. Perhaps even scarier, the report claims that the mean time to identify a breach was 197 days. That’s almost 200 days that a cybercriminal can have access to someone’s data.

This book is about DevOps for the database, and why it’s different, hard, valuable and doable

The public cloud allows end-users to consume mission-critical services without involving traditional IT. At some point, though, end-users realize that the public cloud still requires IT skills or integration with on-premises IT systems.

The SOAR skills framework is about realizing value-add skills and quickly surfacing them for immediate consumption. The benefits start with instilling trust, exceeding Quality-of-Service expectations, extending scale and agility, and providing just-in-time justification.

Practicing IT asset management provides an understanding of the cost and value of assets, helping teams grasp the value of the services they are responsible for.

A theoretical discussion of observability and its implementation in simple language, with demonstrations to make your IT investments fully observant.

One can justifiably say that virtualization is a mature technology. It has formed the basis for Cloud computing, and it epitomizes the continuous service delivery and consumption model that beckons in the era of IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS).