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Boulder, CO (PRWEB) February 12, 2014
Coming into 2014 with momentum from a successful fourth quarter of 2013 and Series A funding, VictorOps is tackling the problems facing DevOps teams by taking a cue from social media. Today the company announced the general availability of its alerting and collaboration platform with nearly 200 companies coming out of beta.
This age of continuous software deployment means that larger and larger numbers of development and IT professionals have to be engaged around-the-clock to solve outages and performance issues. For example, a developer responsible for the most recent code change might need to collaborate with the on-call Operations person to resolve a middle-of-the-night problem.
VictorOps platform addresses this challenge by applying the social media principle of Continuous Partial Attention – the process of paying simultaneous attention to a number of information sources but without being 100% committed. Using VictorOps platform, an extended team of developers and operations can stay engaged as needed, boosting collaboration and speeding time to resolution.
“It isn’t just about alert monitoring anymore. Around 70% of an average outage is spent on finding the person with the right knowledge and working together to solve the problem,” said Todd Vernon, CEO and co-founder of VictorOps. “VictorOps leverages the power of Continuous Partial Attention for good in DevOps – enabling Dev and Ops teams to stay connected and make being on-call suck less for everybody.”
General availability features of VictorOps platform include:
On-call schedule management – Users are alerted when and how they want by customizing personal notification policies. Manage teams, on-call rotations and notifications.
Alerting and escalation – When an alert becomes critical, VictorOps makes sure the right person knows about, and that the entire team is up-to-speed on the status.
Incident management – Users get alerted their way. Additional team members can be added through Twitter-like @ mentions to automatically have situational awareness of the incident and everything leading up to it. Swap on-call on the fly and everyone can see the change.
DevOps timeline – VictorOps digests all of the data from existing monitoring systems into a timeline feed so users know the health of their infrastructure at a glance. See what’s up with the team and what they’re talking about.
Team collaboration – By pulling in team members who know how to solve the problem faster, users reduce time-to-resolution and get back to their life.
Fault tolerance – VictorOps is engineered from the ground up for availability, from its redundant network switches to clustered application code. The company’s service is hosted in a state-of-the-art, Tier III Design Certified data center with industry-leading colocation service level agreements. Coming in Q1, VictorOps will run in multiple data centers for even greater reliability.
About VictorOps
VictorOps is the world’s first collaborative platform designed for DevOps teams that combines the power of people and data to solve IT problems in real-time. The VictorOps platform seamlessly orchestrates team situational awareness, incident creation, escalation, notification, and remediation with team members regardless of physical location or time of day. Privately held, VictorOps is backed by Costanoa Venture Capital and Foundry Group. For more information, visit http://www.victorops.com and follow the company on Twitter @GoVictorOps.
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(PRWEB) April 19, 2013
The instructor looks over a sea of young, eager faces and asks, “How many of you have been in more than five foster care homes in your life?”
All of the youths’ hands go up.
Then the instructor asks, “How many of you have been in more than 10 foster care homes in your life?”
The hands stay up.
Finally, the instructor asks, “How many of you were told that you wouldn’t amount to anything?”
All of the hands remain in the air, but the gazes of many of the teenagers drop. They shift their focus to the floor, remembering the hurtful words they hoped wouldn’t shape their future.
This was the scene at nonprofit Student Assistance Foundation’s first “A Step Ahead” College Prep Camp for Montana youths in foster care.
Eight years, and more than 120 campers later, SAF is more committed than ever to the free, five-day camp, and to giving Montana foster youths the tools they need to make their dreams of higher education a reality.
Each year, campers gather at a college campus to experience college firsthand. While at the camp, youths stay in the dorms and receive classroom instruction in areas including money management, relationship-building, finding and maintaining housing, and scholarship searches and applications. Plus, camp participants learn the purpose of Education and Training Vouchers (ETV) for youth in foster care and how to properly complete the application forms.
Finally, campers leave “A Step Ahead” with a free laptop computer to use as they work toward their education goals — a tool that camp organizers view as being essential to success in postsecondary education.
SAF was notified recently that “A Step Ahead” has been selected as a finalist in the State Farm Neighborhood Assist grant program. We are one of 200 causes selected from 3,000 applicants from across the nation competing to receive a $ 25,000 grant. The 40 programs that receive the most votes will receive $ 25,000 each to support their cause.
Take a few moments each day — even on the weekend — until April 22 to vote for “A Step Ahead” at https://www.state-assist.com/cause/5109/a-step-ahead-camp. You can vote up to 10 times per day, and we would encourage you to do so. Invite your friends and family to support our cause as well. Every vote counts!
Student Assistance Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit Montana corporation that provides students with knowledge and tools to finance and pursue their postsecondary education. Funds generated by SAF are returned to Montanans in the form of education grants and public benefit programs – to date more than $ 27 million. For more information, visit http://www.safmt.org or http://www.SmartAboutCollege.org.
State Farm Neighborhood Assist is a crowd-sourced philanthropic initiative that lets communities determine where funding is awarded, exclusively through Facebook. The initiative utilizes the State Farm Youth Advisory Board to vet submissions for causes and allows Facebook users who download the free State Farm Neighborhood Assist application to vote for the final 40 grant winners. The program has been inspired by the incredible number of neighborhoods that are coming together to solve a problem or improve their community.
Tampa, FL (PRWEB) September 30, 2013
Crowdfunding expert Kendall Almerico, CEO of crowdfunding website http://www.ClickStartMe.com, commented on why Detroit should harness crowd-funding for civic needs and how crowd finding will revolutionize the “pay it forward” movement. Almerico says that using crowdfunding to do good in a community gives us the avenue to take back community initiatives.
“As members of our communities we are always lobbying to move forward with worthwhile projects and programs that help and grow the communities we live in. With good-deed focused crowdfunding, we make sure those projects happen,” Almerico, the nationally publicized crowdfunding expert says, “We vote for what we believe in, but sometimes that is not enough to get it done.”
Almerico points out that while initiatives like the 10-foot Robocop statue are heavily supported by the community, before crowdfunding, there was no way for the members of the Detroit community to get this icon created for their city.
Communtiy crowdfunding is the collective effort of members of a community to pool their donations through an online crowdfunding portal. At present, most crowdfunding efforts have been used to support new product ideas or artistic creations, but with the help of sites like http://www.ClickStartMe.com individuals in a community can use crowdfunding to ensure that their tax-deductible donations directly fund the community projects they feel most strongly about.
“We, as a community, are already paying for community projects through tax dollars,” Almerico says. “Community crowdfunding just allows us to have more of a say on where some of those dollars go by using tax deductible donations to directly benefit causes.”
Almerico hopes this movement towards community crowdfunding will enhance the “pay it forward” movement. “Helping people that really deserve it is not a new concept.” Almerico adds, “America needs a way to have their small good deed count for something big.”
About Kendall Almerico
Crowdfunding expert Kendall Almerico is the CEO of ClickStartMe, the crowd funding site that provides individuals and businesses with an easy-to-use website to raise funds through online crowd-funding. Almerico is a nationally recognized crowdfunding expert and has been interviewed internationally on the topic, appeared on national talk radio programs discussing crowdfunding, and has been quoted in major news sources including the New York Daily News, Huffington Post and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Almerico is available for interviews and speaking engagements by contacting media at clickstartme.com or by calling 813.410.4658.
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Inventory Planning is highly essential for any organization. The planning must be done in such a way so that the company’s plans and the demands of the market are in sync. With the rapid alteration in the demand, the need for inventory planning has arisen to a great extent. Proper inventory planning will thwart any major problems, including depleting sales profit margin and cash flow that are likely to occur in future.
During inventory planning it is essential to take into consideration the Demand Management, Production Planning, Sales and Operations Planning, Material Requirements Planning and Inventory Reduction.
What are the common inventory issues that a business could face? Debtors’ leniency, shrinkage, cash flow planning, slow moving inventories and loss are some of the inventory issues that can be set right by proper inventory planning.
If you are set on making your business boom with your inventory planning, then concentrate on the following areas: Proper inventory valuation, classifying fast moving and slow moving things in your inventory list, and marking out obsolete inventory is strongly recommended. Further, it is best to code your inventories electronically. You may also create a spread sheet and keep a track of your outgoing and incoming inventory. Insuring for inventory losses that could occur due to rain, fire, etc., is the best strategy.
Thinking of a software solution that will lessen your inventory planning burden? Well, there are umpteen numbers of choices available. Run a web search and you are sure to zero in on the best inventory planning software that will suit your needs. Make it a point to choose an inventory planning software from a company that is trustworthy and has a vast client base.
What are the techniques used in inventory planning? Some of the most popular techniques are JIT, MRP, DRP, SCM, Risk Management and EOQ. Generally, each of these techniques are used for inventory planning alone and in some cases a combination of them are used for better results.
A proper investigation is necessary to find out the root cause for inventory losses. In case the problem continues, it is not advisable to zero in on a particular factor alone because there could be a combination of factors. Tackling the inventory issues as soon as it rears its ugly head is important.
Find the best inventory solutions that will help in forecasting, optimizing the stocking levels and the inventory, and refill the stock based on your business requirements.
Richard Warburton writes on business and information technology. Demand Solutions has been providing software for the full spectrum of supply chain management – inventory planning, sales & operations planning (S&OP), demand planning and forecasting, collaboration, inventory optimization and replenishment, advanced planning & scheduling and retail planning.
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