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Plan new architectures and track your cloud footprint with Cloudcraft by Datadog

In a rapidly expanding, highly distributed cloud infrastructure environment, it can be difficult to make decisions about the design and management of cloud architectures. That’s because it’s hard for a single observer to see the full scope when their organization owns thousands of cloud resources distributed across hundreds of accounts. You need broad, complete visibility in order to find underutilized resources and other forms of bloat.

Weighing the Costs and Returns of Colocation

As businesses continue to expand their digital footprints, the demand for efficient and secure data management solutions has never been greater. Colocation, the practice of housing servers and IT infrastructure in third-party data centres, has emerged as an attractive option for enterprises seeking enhanced scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. However, before making a decision on colocation, it is vital to carefully assess the financial aspects associated with this service.

Optimizing SharePoint Online Costs

SharePoint Online (SPO) has become a cornerstone for many organizations seeking a robust, scalable, and collaborative platform. It’s a place where teams can seamlessly work together, share documents, and enhance their workflow efficiency. However, while SPO offers a plethora of benefits, the cost associated with its usage can be a potential hurdle, especially for businesses with large volumes of data.

OpenSearch vs. Elasticsearch: Which is Better?

Following its release under the open-source Apache 2.0 license in 2010, Elasticsearch rose to prominence as the world’s most popular enterprise search engine. Elasticsearch is frequently deployed alongside Logstash and Kibana, a combination known as the ELK stack, to enable log analytics use cases that include application observability, security log analysis, and understanding user behavior.

Proactively secure your business with new Cisco Secure Application enhancements to protect cloud environments

Map, prioritize and act on security issues found in cloud environments with the newly expanded security offering from Cisco AppDynamics. Welcome to the October edition of the What’s New in Security series — and — happy security awareness month!

Auto-Instrumentation with the AWS CDK

As a developer I love automation, Whether it’s orchestrating a smart home or optimizing developer toolchains. Automation injects efficiency into my daily routine, simplifying intricate processes and eliminating repetitive tasks. Especially when it comes to toolchains, I’m constantly on the lookout for ways to boost coding workflows. Cloud Development Kits (CDKs) brought with them a new era of streamlined developer toolchains.

How to Setup up SharePoint Alerts

Microsoft SharePoint stands as a robust web-based collaboration platform that has become indispensable for a myriad of organizations aiming for a streamlined and effective workflow management. Its seamless integration with Microsoft 365 unfolds a vista of functionalities, among which the feature of real-time notifications or alerts shines prominently.