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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.

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HackaSCOM: Ready, Set, Code! 

4 hours

And… the countdown has begun! This afternoon, we kicked off HackaSCOM with day one of the two-day hackathon, “Ready, Set, Code”. Over the next 24 hours,

HackaSCOM: The Results

7 hours

And the results are in! Read on to see each contestant's solution and find out where you can get ahold of it.

HackaSCOM 2021, Day 1 – Ready, Set, Code

1 hour

During this webinar, the SCOM community vote on the final monitoring mission we set our experts. Our experts then share their initial thoughts on their

HackaSCOM 2021, Day 2 - The Results

2 hour

In this webinar, our experts were center-stage to showcase their work live to our panel of judges, who then critiqued their approach and nominated a

Coffee Break: SCOM alerting basics explained

11 hours

Alerts are a core part of SCOM but aren’t always intuitive to work with and set up. So, we asked Sameer Mhaisekar, Technical Evangelist at SquaredUp, to

Coffee Break: The Big SCOM Survey 2021 - The Results

1 hour

Our panel of SCOM experts come together to explore and discuss the results of The Big SCOM Survey 2021, and to examine: how the wider SCOM Community use SCOM, the tools & techniques they are applying, and what their future SCOM plans are.

The Big SCOM Survey 2021: Full results

6 hours

The full list of results for The Big SCOM Survey 2021. We surveyed 81 SCOM users with the same 27 questions we asked in 2020. We include comparison charts at certain points to track how the SCOM landscape is changing.

Use Webhooks to raise alerts in SCOM

21 mins

Do you want to make SCOM the center of your monitoring tools to take advantage of its health rollup and comprehensive object model, but don’t want to

Panel Discussion: Extending SCOM

25 mins

SCOM is great the way it comes, but we all know you can get so much more from it by extending it, from additional monitoring to platform iterations, our

Coffee Break: SCCM Community MP - Deep Dive

1 hour

In this month’s Coffee Break webinar, we take a deep dive into Dujon Walsham's free community endpoint manager SCCM MP. Sign up to see how Dujon’s MP uses SCOM’s native rules and monitors to deliver full SCCM coverage and far greater monitoring capabilities than the native SCOM tool.

Coffee Break: SCOM 2022 Migration

1 hour

Now that SCOM 2022 has been around for a while and has been battle-tested, you might be considering an upgrade! In this month’s Coffee Break webinar, Bob Cornelissen, an industry-renowned expert in monitoring and upgrading SCOM, will be joining us to walk you through the process and share best-practice tips.

Meet this year's HackaSCOM judges

3 mins

Find out who'll be judging HackaSCOM 2022, what they thought of last year's event, and what they are expecting to see from our contenders this year!

Ready, Set, Code!

28 mins

HackaSCOM 2022 - Day 1During this webinar, the SCOM community vote on the final monitoring mission we set our experts. Our experts then share their

The Results

1 hour

HackaSCOM 2022 - Day 2 In this webinar, our experts take center-stage to showcase their work live to our panel of judges, who then critique their approach

HackaSCOM 2022: everything that happened

11 hours

HackaSCOM 2022 - the two-day hackathon – was another incredible SCOM event! Our expert contestants were given just 24 hours to build a SCOM solution, as

Panel Discussion: AI for SCOM and beyond

34 mins

Besides summarizing and diagnosing, AI could dispatch and even fix alerts too. But, to implement AI successfully for such tasks, a consistent event

Panel Discussion: Open Source and SCOM

32 mins

Find out what our panel of experts had to say about how they have seen SCOM use open source in the past, discuss where they have seen open source working

SCOMathon Welcome

27 mins

Bruce Cullen opened the event with a recap of how SCOMathon even came to be. You may remember May of 2020, the rapid cancelling of events, and the gaping events hole left behind. That’s when SCOMathon was born! Plus, he shared his personal highlights for what to look forward to this SCOMathon 2023.

SCOMathon Closing

16 mins

Closing out SCOMathon 2023, Bruce wrapped up with some fun stats and highlighted some of the most interesting talk moments. See what else Bruce picked out as key takeaways from the core sessions.

Coffee Break: Monitoring without authoring - How to enable self-service

1 hour

Wish your application teams could build and review their own monitoring? Join this Coffee Break webinar to learn more about the Standard Monitoring Framework (SMF) for SCOM. Learn how the SMF enables application teams to own, build, and review monitoring for their business services—all without complex MP authoring. More monitoring, less authoring!

Coffee Break: Big SCOM Survey Results

1 hour

The results are in! This year's Big SCOM Survey has seen the most responses ever! In this Coffee Break webinar, SquaredUp Director of Products Bruce Cullen and his guest panellists will discuss the findings and what it means for the future.

Management Pack Authoring for Beginners

1 hour

“Management Pack authoring looks really cool – but where do I start?” If this is sounds like you, join our experts on this MP authoring 101 webinar! In

Custom MP creation with PowerShell

1 hour

In this month’s Coffee Break episode, Dujon Walsham, SCOM Architect and Consultant, will be joining Cookdown’s Director of Products, Bruce Cullen, to

Getting events into SCOM from any system

1 hour

A deep dive on how to pull events from VMware vROps using PowerShell – from Linux/Unix nodes, Windows systems and network devices - into SCOM, so that alerts can be raised from them.

Deep dive into a SCOM Administrator's toolbox

1 hour

Stoyan gives us a deep dive into what is in his SCOM Administrator's Toolbox, sharing the tools he uses when at customer sites, complete with demos and a full explanation for why each tool is useful

SCOM alerting basics explained

1 hour

Sameer Mhaisekar and Bruce Cullen cover the building blocks that go into generating those SCOM alerts that you are so familiar with. They will cover everything from workflows to alert tuning, and demonstrate how all these things link together.

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