June 15, 2021

Panel Discussion: How to best monitor applications with SCOM

Bob Cornelissen / Bruce Cullen / Michel Kamp / Sameer Mhaisekar / Yannick Grasser

Our panel seeks to answer the question “How to best monitor applications with SCOM” and take you through your options, with and without SCOM.

Meet the author

Author

Bob Cornelissen

Microsoft MVP & managing consultant @TOPQORE

Bob (AKA SCOM Bob) is a Managing Consultant at TopQore, a highly specialized Cloud and Datacenter Management consultancy from the Netherlands and operating world-wide. Bob is an 11 x MVP, blogs, wrote a book, presents at events in person or virtually world wide, and loves anything community related.

Bruce Cullen

Director of Engineering @ 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.

Michel Kamp

DevOps and Monitoring Architect @OpsLogix

Monitoring specialist from the beginning of the MOM/SCOM age with a focus on developing extensions.

Sameer Mhaisekar

Technical Evangelist @ SquaredUp

Sameer represents SquaredUp in India. He is based in Hyderabad and has been working in the industry for over 5 years. He started as a SCOM Admin and later got involved in Azure consultancy briefly before joining SquaredUp as a Technical Evangelist, where he writes extensively about SCOM and Azure Monitor. He's been awarded the rare "Community Hero" and "Content Hero" Badger by Microsoft. Sameer is also the founder and main organizer of Experts Live India.

Yannick Grasser

Global technical applications manager for Polypore INC.

With more than 14 years of history with Polypore Inc., an Asahi Kasei Company, Yannick is serving a role of a global technical applications manager. He is leading technical application management sector for one of the divisions of the company which includes 24/7 manufacturing production support for several companies including Daramic, Celgard and Polypore International. His globally disbursed team (USA, Europe, Asia) of technical system analysts is responsible for providing continues support and management to several large ERP, MES, Finance and warehouse systems. Maintaining full visibility into application behaviour, ensuring continues availability and up-time are the key to successful global application landscape control.