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Integrating IBM Process Mining with Jira

I spent a week or so recently studying for (and passing) an IBM certification for Cloud Pak for Business Automation. All the components of this product have business value however the product that interested me the most was IBM Process Mining. This product was recently acquired from an Italian company called myInvenio to enable IBM […]

Calculate your Data Centre’s Carbon Footprint

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 […]

Turbonomic: A performance tool that pays for itself

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 […]

Lowering the cost of your Cloud Migration with Turbonomic

“COVID-19 accelerated digitization as organizations were forced to innovate rapidly in response to a combination of regulations (e.g., working from home) and a rapidly changing business environment.” – IDC Worldwide Whole Cloud Forecast, 2020-2024 When Orb Data became a Turbonomic business partner we did so primarily for its ability to stitch business-critical applications to the […]