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Ambition, action, and award-winning achievement: creating UK's first EDGE Network

The lessons of history: spotting the EDGE opportunity By early 2020, Pulsant had evolved into a midmarket service provider focused on regional businesses. Catering to this demanding community, Pulsant had developed a range of platforms and data centres to service those businesses that drive the economic growth of UK plc.

AWS AI: Introduction to Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Comprehend

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), ever-evolving fields that are subtly and stunningly transforming our world, are now firmly rooted in most aspects of the current tech landscape and business processes. Their growth is exponential, and their effects are largely positive – fostering business endeavors, enhancing our quality of life, and shaping how we live, work, and interact.

Monitoring edge and fog computing devices

Edge computing and fog computing are technological advancements gaining traction in a hyper-connected world. Being close to the source, edge computing enables data collection and processing at the fastest possible speeds. Instead of sending all the data to a remote cloud location through the internet with latency, edge devices store and process most of it onsite and pass the heavy lifting to the central cloud to achieve the quickest turnaround.

Capitalizing on the Cloud: Five Strategic Benefits of ITSM in the Cloud

Cloud computing is no longer the future; it’s our reality. This means that the decision to move ITSM to the cloud isn't just an option. It's a strategic necessity. For business and IT leaders in the early stages of this transformation, understanding the benefits of cloud-based ITSM is pivotal. Here are five advantages that this shift can bring to your organization.

Simplify GitHub Actions scaling with Spot Connect and Elastigroup

GitHub Actions is a CI/CD platform that allows you to define custom workflows and automate various tasks within your software development projects. With GitHub Actions, you can set up continuous integration and deployment pipelines, run tests, perform code analysis, and execute other actions whenever specific events occur, such as pushing code to a repository or creating a pull request.

Metrics for Monitoring Azure Event Hubs

Azure Monitor is a convenient tool designed to help you enhance the performance and accessibility of your various services and applications. A comprehensive solution, this tool helps teams analyze data from cloud-based and on-premises environments. In this post, we'll discuss the best metrics for monitoring Microsoft Azure Event Hubs, and how to get the most from the tool. Get started with a quick demo of MetricFire today to take charge of your network performance!

Azure Rightsizing: Maximizing Performance and Minimizing Costs

Organizations increasingly leverage Azure to host their applications and services in today’s cloud-driven world. However, efficiently managing Azure resources ensures optimal performance, cost-effectiveness, and resource utilization. One essential aspect of resource management is rightsizing. In this blog post, we’ll explore the concept of rightsizing Azure resources and provide practical tips on optimizing your deployments.

Proven methods for elevating end-to-end tracking in Azure/Hybrid Integrations

Tracking end-to-end message or business data across Azure/hybrid integration and implementing end-to-end tracking presents a significant challenge for many organizations. To solve this problem, many rely on various monitoring tools like Log Analytics, App Insights, etc., designed for developers. However, when it comes to supporting applications in production or real-time for non-technical Azure operations/support teams, this approach can be challenging in terms of security and expertise.

Architecting Cloud Instrumentation

Architecting cloud instrumentation to secure a complex and diverse enterprise infrastructure is no small feat. Picture this: you have hundreds of virtual machines, some with specialized purposes and tailor-made configurations, thousands of containers with different images, a plethora of exposed endpoints, s3 buckets with both public and private access policies, backend databases that need to be accessed through secure internet gateways, etc.

How FinOps should become a strategy for continuous cloud and cost efficiency

Cloud computing was originally pitched as a cost-savings alternative to traditional IT infrastructure. The concept was simple: only purchase what you need and adjust those resources up and down based on demand. This eliminated large up-front costs and made it possible to right-size the amount of compute and storage infrastructure based on a specific workload. While that might have been true in the beginning, CIOs are finding themselves in a different situation today.