June 5, 2023

Panel Discussion: Microsoft Monitoring, what do we want to see?

Bruce Cullen / Cameron Fuller / Christian Heitkamp / Harold Dyck / Nathan Gau

We all have views on where SCOM, Azure Monitor, and more generally, monitoring for Microsoft products should go next, against the backdrop of companies going cloud first. Yet, for some organizations having to remain onprem (potentially forever), what should the future of Microsoft monitoring tooling look like , and what should it provide customers?

Meet the author

Author

Bruce Cullen

Director of Products @ SquaredUp, Founding Member @ Cookdown

Meet Bruce, Product Director at SquaredUp & Founding member of Cookdown. He product manages cloud integrations and on-prem products bringing the worlds tools together under smart dashboards that understand your data. With a decade-long stint at Citrix under his belt, Bruce's journey from software tester to project management maestro saw him spearhead the transition of XenApp and XenDesktop (aka CVAD) from on-premises to cloud. Passionate about observability and sustainable computing, Bruce is your go-to guru for navigating the complexities of both cloud and on-prem software. When he's not orchestrating innovation at the keyboard, you'll find him conquering miles on his bike, pounding the pavement running, or enjoying precious moments with his family.

Cameron Fuller

Solution Director at Quisitive

Cameron, former Microsoft MVP and Solution Director for Quisitive. He has 30 years of infrastructure experience, focused on monitoring and automation solutions. Cameron co-authored a number of System Center books and maintains a highly technical blog. Additionally, you can find Cameron as a speaker at conferences like the Midwest Management Summit.

Christian Heitkamp

SCOM & Management Pack Specialist

Christian Heitkamp is leading the product management at NiCE IT Management Solutions. As an ardent professional, he designs and develops extensions to Microsoft System Center and Microsoft 365 for many years and has specialist skills and certifications for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, IBM DB2, VMware vSphere, Oracle and other business applications. Through regular customer and partner engagements, he is bringing industry’s best practice to Microsoft System Center and Entra DI to enrich the value of IT management solutions.

Harold Dyck

President and CEO Silect Software INC

Harold founded in Silect in 2003 with a mission of helping companies extract more value from their investments in Microsoft management technologies. Prior to Silect, Harold founded several other successful technology companies, worked as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in the Canadian venture capital industry and also worked at Microsoft and IBM.

Nathan Gau

Senior Technical Specialist @ Microsoft

Nathan has been working in IT for over 25 years across various industries. He is currently a Senior Technical Specialist at Microsoft, doing cyber security work for public sector customers. In the SCOM world, he is best known for his white papers on alert management and has authored two Security solutions for SCOM. The first turned SCOM into a log monitoring and operational best practices security solution. The second built on that and turned SCOM into an edge device for Microsoft Sentinel.