January 10, 2022

Coffee Break: The Big SCOM Survey 2021 – The Results

Aakash Basavaraj / Bruce Cullen / Christian Heitkamp / Harold Dyck / Jonas Lenntun / Richard Benwell

In this month’s Coffee Break episode, Cookdown’s Director of Products, Bruce Cullen, will be joined by a panel of SCOM experts to explore and discuss the results of The Big SCOM Survey 2021.

What is The Big SCOM Survey?

In 2020, SquaredUp and Cookdown partnered to develop the first Big SCOM Survey to examine: how the wider SCOM Community use SCOM, the tools & techniques they are applying, and what their future SCOM plans are.

The survey was so successful in helping us to understand SCOM’s usage and its role in the monitoring space, that we decided to run it again to see how these trends change year on year.

Where is SCOM in 2022?

During this webinar, our panel of experts will share relevant findings from last year’s survey. With over 100 respondents from all over the world, the survey provides a powerful and current snapshot of the state of infrastructure monitoring worldwide, including:

The version(s) of SCOM that respondents are currently running in production.
The number of management groups, servers, gateways, and agents they have in their SCOM landscape.
Other tools or third-party management packs that are used for monitoring.
What SCOM is being used to monitor.
How respondents create dashboards and reports for SCOM and if they tune their management packs.

Meet the author

Author

Aakash Basavaraj

Program Manager for SCOM @ Microsoft

Aakash is Program Manager at Microsoft's System Center Team. He has been with Microsoft for over 10 years now, and has had immense customer facing experience in different industries. His passion for technology, hunger for trying new things and for being part of product designing lead him to Program Management.

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.

Christian Heitkamp

Director of Products (CMO) NICE IT Management Solutions GMBH

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.

Jonas Lenntun

Technical Business Developer @ OpsLogix

Jonas is a Technical Business Developer & and Solution Architect at OpsLogix. Jonas has a lot of experience in Microsoft products and IT Operations Management. After working in this area for almost 20 years, Jonas has developed a broad knowledge of the whole Microsoft product range and in-depth expertise in business continuity and modern application delivery.

Richard Benwell

Founder CEO @SquaredUp

Richard is the founder and CEO of SquaredUp. With over 15 years' experience in developing IT management products, including software architect at Citrix, Richard founded SquaredUp to bring modern data visualization to the world of enterprise IT operations. Today, hundreds of enterprises worldwide rely on SquaredUp to control application availability, performance, and cost.