I was very intrigued by the purchase of OpsRamp by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). I knew little of what the company does, so I investigated why HPE purchased it, and how OpsRamp would add to the value of HPE’s current offerings. Today, many companies use various point tools for their IT operations, but OpsRamp is a platform and not a point product. With over 2,500 integrations of various manufacturers, OpsRamp offers the following benefits: Proactive IT Operations – Be the

Technical debt. This is a term used more and more to describe established IT environments that are overdue for updates of many kinds. The demand to deploy new systems and applications along with the lack of budget for regular hardware replacement means regular maintenance tasks can be ignored or deferred too many times, leaving the IT environment at risk. For example, running obsolete vSphere ESXi v5.1 on old processor hardware (i.e., Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, or Opteron serv