When the media discuss carbon footprints it’s often in conjunction with images of aeroplanes, traffic jams or smoking chimney stacks but very rarely do they blame IT for the world’s issues. However, the reality is very different. I was reading an article about the digital currency Ethereum and how a recent change called the Merge (where the […]
I’ve been involved with Event Management and more recently AIOps products for over 30 years and in this time, I’ve written several presentations and blogs on how to secure a Return on Investment (ROI) for the software we are implementing or selling. Many of these cases rely on an understanding of the cost of an […]
In this blog I want to demonstrate how easy it is to configure Runbook Automation to automatically resolve an issue. Runbook Automation (RBA) is a component of Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps Event Manager, the concepts of which were explained in my last blog Runbook Automation – The Basics. So, how do you set-up an […]
This blog started life as a demonstration of how easy it is to set up automatic issue resolution using Runbook Automation, a component of Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps Event Manager. But that blog assumed everyone understood the concepts of Runbook Automation, so first a bit of background. Across the “too-many-to-mention” years I have been […]
It’s been 25 years since the fictional Skynet became self-aware and launched nuclear missiles against the humans who, in a panic, tried to disconnect it. However, in reality, the ability of AI systems has been very limited. At roughly the same time as Skynet was destroying the world, I was starting Orb Data and the […]