premium Observability: A guide for buyers
This free guide features a look at what observability means in today’s IT environments, how observability leaders are defined, and a list of vendors and descriptions of their offerings. Also in this guide is a contributed article on the importance of API observability in microservices architectures. … continue reading
premium IT resiliency guide
IT resiliency isn’t just about having 99.999% uptime; it’s more about the customer experience. If your customers aren’t able to experience the app the way you’ve intended because of a slowdown, then that will have negative implications for the business. Download this guide to learn the seven core beliefs needed to achieve resiliency, the difference … continue reading
premium The future of IT self-service: 5 ways to never take a help call again
In the long term, organizations expect as many as 41% of their employees to work remotely at least part of the time. A recent Gartner survey reinforces the need for IT to deliver a user experience (UX) that the autonomous, remote worker of the future finds productive, non-invasive and trouble-free. The best user experience is … continue reading
premium The automation imperative
Cloud-native and Kubernetes are dominant topics in technology circles these days. But why? What makes such previously obscure concepts and tools suddenly so relevant? Standard practices for software operations until now have been imperative, meaning that instructions are explicit, requiring manual steps and active intervention. Kubernetes and a new generation of cloud-native software have changed … continue reading
premium 3 reasons enterprises need to implement AIOps
Competitive organizations don’t simply react to their environments or competitors. Rather, they are proactively and predictively anticipating how to deliver better business outcomes. These autonomous digital enterprises know how to pull all the relevant information, capabilities, and people into the same place to quickly and efficiently make the right decisions. This requires flexible and dynamic … continue reading
premium ITOps Observability Guide
You’ve likely heard the term observability being passed around for the past few years, and you might have assumed that it is just another marketing buzzword for monitoring. And you wouldn’t be alone in that thinking. Some experts would say that “Observability”, “AIOps” and “Application Performance Monitoring (APM)” are just terms used to distinguish between … continue reading
premium The future of APM is open
Of the many programming fads and trends that have come and gone in the past 20 or so years, application performance management is not one of them. It’s here to stay, though perhaps not in its current definition or even its current use. Open-source time series database provider InfluxData’s senior manager Daniela Pontes explained that … continue reading
premium 5 guiding principles to follow for modernizing the data center network
New technologies like 5G, AI, and IoT, are driving companies to reconsider the way their data centers are structured. But from the smallest companies all the way up to the largest cloud providers, we’ve seen that service uptime remains a challenge for even the largest and most sophisticated companies – some citing that an outage … continue reading
premium OpenVPN: IT security considerations for remote workers
Despite the fact that remote work can cause security risks, a majority of IT professionals are in favor of employees working remotely. According to research by OpenVPN, 90 percent of IT professionals believe remote workers are a security risk. 92 percent also believe that the benefits of remote work outweigh the risks. Benefits of allowing … continue reading
premium IPv6 deployment and the global internet
IPv6 deployment has been a topic of discussion amongst network engineers for many years. Although first standardized in the late 1990s, we didn’t start to see really significant levels of deployment pick up until 2012, helped in part by World IPv6 Launch. Depletion of IPv4 address space was and remains a significant driver for IPv6 … continue reading
premium AIOps: A Self-Healing Mentality
The first time I watched Minority Report back in 2002, the film’s premise made me optimistic: Crime could be prevented with the help of Precogs, a trio of mutant psychics capable of seeing crimes before they happen, enabling police to stop murderers before they act. What a great utopia! I quickly realized, however, that this “utopia” … continue reading
premium The top 5 tips to prevent cyberattacks in 2019
Cyberattacks have become an anticipated part of the IT world, regularly striking businesses both large and small. These attacks consistently infiltrate networks and expose an organization’s valuable data, and cause brand embarrassment and irate customers. Yet, the one way cybercriminals are inconsistent is the most damaging; their attack methods evolve each year in new and … continue reading
premium 9 security best practices for Kubernetes you should be following
One month after a major security flaw was discovered in Kubernetes, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has shared a list of nine best security practices for the popular container orchestration tool Kubernetes. “As organizations accelerate their adoption of containers and container orchestrators, they will need to take necessary steps to protect such a critical … continue reading
premium For a successful AIOps integration, avoid these four common problems
The explosion in operational data and machine-learning compute capacity is finally enabling AIOps — Artificial Intelligence for Operations. But like many other technologies, AIOps fits within a larger organizational and systems context, and enterprises need to ensure that they are ready for the shift. Successfully implementing an AIOps solution requires an awareness of the potential … continue reading
