The Digest for Atlassian Admins : August 2024
TABLE OF CONTENTS
📰 News
Atlassian brings its flagship customer event to Europe - Team '24 Europe
Atlassian announced recently that registration for Team ‘24 Europe. The event is going to be held in Barcelona, Spain from October 8th through the 10th.
Atlassian Achieves FedRAMP “In Process” Designation
Atlassian Government Cloud promises to unlock stronger collaboration and innovation on a secure cloud platform for U.S. government teams. The much awaited FedRAMP certification of Atlassian apps is almost here!
Atlassian releases fixes for 11 high-severity vulnerabilities
Atlassian released a security bulletin to address 11 high-severity vulnerabilities found in their products. These vulnerabilities were identified through various methods including bug bounty programs, penetration testing, and scans of third-party libraries. To fix these vulnerabilities, Atlassian recommends updating your software to the latest version or one of the specific fixed versions mentioned in the bulletin.
💡 Tips & Resources
Cloud vs. On-Premise Disaster Recovery: A Comparison
Compare cloud and on-premise disaster recovery. Cloud solutions offer automated, scalable, and cost-effective recovery with continuous data replication, while on-premise solutions require significant hardware investment and manual processes. Despite cloud advantages, effective disaster recovery plans and regular testing are crucial due to potential security risks and service outages.
A Step By Step Guide to Disaster Recovery Planning (in the Cloud in 2024)
Disaster recovery planning is essential for any organization to ensure business continuity and minimize data loss in the event of an unforeseen disaster. Traditionally, these plans were centered around on-premise infrastructure. With the advent of cloud computing, the landscape of disaster recovery has transformed, bringing both new opportunities and challenges.
How to Recover a Jira Project Using Revyz: A Step-by-Step Guide
Managing and securing your Jira Cloud environment is crucial. Unfortunately, accidents happen – whether it’s an unintended deletion or a configuration mishap. To mitigate these risks, it’s essential to have a robust Jira backup solution. In this guide, we will walk you through the process of recovering a Jira project using Revyz, a powerful tool designed for Jira Cloud backup and disaster recovery.
Is Every Jira Site Full of Scary Data?
Matt Doar, a long-time Atlassian expert and community leader, discusses various scary data scenarios he has encountered. These scenarios include HR using Jira to track new joiners with starter salaries included, a social media company using Jira to track abuse reports containing private information, and a large company using Jira to track competitor acquisition details etc..
Life After Cloud
Praecipio an Atlassian Platinum Enterprise Solution Partner has created a collection of articles focussed on what next after you have migrated your Atlassian apps to the cloud
12 Must-Have Apps for a Thriving Atlassian Cloud Instance in 2024
Learn about the 12 must have Jira apps for your Jira Cloud Instance created by the Atlassian experts at Praecipio.
What caused the great CrowdStrike-Windows meltdown of 2024?
When a trusted software provider delivers an update that causes PCs to immediately stop working across the world, chaos ensues. July's incident wasn't the first such event. Here's how to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Revyz is speeding up its sales procurements processes with BonTerms
Revyz is now using Atlassian endorsed Standard Legal Agreements from Bonterms for its legal agreements, this will help with faster adoption of the Revyz app's and build a higher level of trust with our customers.
Revyz CloudTalks with Atlassian Expert Kit Friend from Accenture
Join Stu Lees and Kit from Accenture in the latest Revyz CloudTalks episode. Discover the influence of cloud tech on businesses and Kit's journey at Accenture. Learn about Kit's impactful contributions in a casual chat with Stu.
Real Humans, Carpentry, and AI a Chat with Michael Roberts
Join Stu Lees for an insightful conversation with Michael Roberts from SPK & Associates. In this episode of Revyz CloudTalks, Michael and Stu discuss their experience at the Team '24 conference, the value of in-person events for building relationships and Michael's passion for carpentry. Don't miss this engaging talk filled with valuable insights and practical advice!
Connecting the Tools and People of the World (and a few Nerdy Ideas) with Michael Yaroshefsky
Michael "Yaro" Yaroshefsky is the founder and CEO of Visor. He is on a mission to "narrow the digital divide by building products that elevate the capabilities of every individual.” With Visor, he has made it incredibly easy to unify data, people, and teams through the power of data. Don't miss this engaging talk between Stu Lees and Yaro.
Jira Backup Buyers Guide
Revyz hears from customers that many backup solutions keep promising to ‘backup everything in Jira’. But how many actually make the cut? So Revyz has taken matters into their own hands and have created this page for customers in hopes to provide them with knowledge regarding the blindspots of backup solutions by fact-checking features of backup apps available on the Atlassian Marketplace.
Jira Cloud Resource Center
This page created by Revyz is a hub for Jira and Confluence Cloud information and resources. Being updated weekly with new content, this page provides useful information such as best practices for cloud admins, cyber security threat landscape for 2024, configuration management resources and more.
eBook 📖 : The Ultimate Guide to Jira Change Management
For Jira Administrators and IT Managers
✓ Understand best practices in change management
✓ Understand key differences between Server, Data Center, and Jira Cloud
✓ Plan a resilient and future-proof change management process
📆 Events
Webinar : Decoding the Hidden Costs of Atlassian Cloud
Learn from industry experts on how to navigate the hidden and costly complexities of Atlassian Cloud licensing, plug-ins, compliance and maintenance.
Join Eduard Letifov from TechTime, an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner and Stu Lees from Revyz, for an informative webinar on "Decoding the Hidden Costs of Atlassian Cloud" August 8th 11am (NZT) at 4pm (PST). Learn from two industry experts on how to navigate the hidden and costly complexities of Atlassian Cloud licensing, plug-ins, compliance and maintenance.
Chicago ACE Event with Stu Lees from Revyz
This series will explore the Atlassian Shared Responsibility Model and why backing up your data is your responsibility within this model. By understanding these aspects of the Atlassian Shared Responsibility Model, you can make informed decisions about data protection and choose a backup provider that meets your specific needs.
Guest speaker for this event will be Stu Lees from Revyz.
The 'Scary Data' Session - what is hiding inside your Atlassian Cloud?
Learn from Atlassian expert, Matt Doar and Data Security advocate, Stu Lees about the 'scary data' that often exists in the unchecked depths of your Jira and Confluence.
💻 New Admin Tools in the Marketplace
Here is a selection of the latest apps for cloud administrators in the Atlassian Marketplace
- Asset Importer: Microsoft file import
Find here on Atlassian Marketplace - view26 Reports for Jira
Find here on Atlassian Marketplace - Issue Lock for Jira (who's editing)
Find here on Atlassian Marketplace - Agile Project Management: Teams Goals Guardrails & Reporting
Find here on Atlassian Marketplace
🤝 New Partnerships
The team at Revyz would like to welcome aboard our new partner/s;
View all Revyz partners here
