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The Power of Peer-To-Peer Networks and the Rise and Fall of Limewire

What if you could share anything to anyone online freely, with no middle man? Imagine a place where information flows freely and connectivity is ubiquitous. Enter peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and they are (or were) a game-changer. These decentralized networks have revolutionized the way we share files, enabling users to connect directly with one another without the need for a central server. And yes, you’ve heard about them before. One of the most prominent pioneers of P2P file sharing was Limewire.

Snowflake Vs. AWS Vs. Azure: Which Should You Use?

Millions of organizations, across every industry, use data to improve strategies, products, and services. Yet, there are bucketloads of cloud data platforms on the market. Picking the right one for your needs can be a challenge. This in-depth comparison guide will help you decide between the data clouds that Snowflake, AWS, and Azure offer.

What is Cloud Repatriation?

In the modern digital age, the migration of data and applications to the cloud has been a significant trend, prompted by the promise of increased efficiency, scalability, and reduced IT costs. Cloud services such as Microsoft’s Azure Cloud have become increasingly popular, offering a host of services including computing power, storage solutions, and advanced analytics.

Head-to-Head: Active Directory vs. Azure Active Directory - Which One Wins?

When it comes to identity and access management solutions, two names that often come up are Active Directory (AD) and Azure Active Directory (AAD). While many people are familiar with AD, AAD is still a relatively new concept to some. In this article, we will take a deep dive into both directories and explore their similarities, differences, pros, cons, and everything in between.

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How Runbook Automation can Simplify CloudOps Use

.Organizations in every industry continue their transition to cloud services, and while this may be a step forward in general, it does bring with it its own unique set of challenges. Cloud use, and in particular CloudOps, relies on a complex and intricate infrastructure which is difficult to manage and maintain, and it's a critical part of keeping a business' networks functioning. This makes finding a way to simplify the use of CloudOps a top priority for many businesses, but does a solution exist?

Building and deploying AWS email templates with Azure DevOps

This is the third and final post (for now) in the series about developing email templates with MJML and deploying them to AWS. In the previous post, we developed a Gulp script to automatically build HTML from the MJML file and insert it in a template file for AWS. In this post, we will set up an automated build and deployment of the email template using Azure DevOps. A quick recap.

Avoid Azure migration cost overruns with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Migrating your on-prem applications to Azure can help you improve scalability, reliability, and security. It can also help reduce costs and free your engineering teams to focus on innovation and performance optimization. But it can be hard to understand Azure costs as they evolve during your migration and to see how they correlate with your resource utilization once you’re up and running in Azure.

AppDynamics Cloud enhancements for hybrid cloud, anomaly detection and usability

Introducing new capabilities expanding hybrid cloud support for VMs, Kubernetes and Linux apps running in public or private clouds, enhancements in application to infrastructure correlation using AI/ML-powered anomaly detection and more.

Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: #29 How to validate if an Array is empty

In the last post, we addressed validating whether a string was null or empty. Today I will speak about another good Best practice, Tips, and Tricks that you must consider while designing your business processes (Logic Apps) and another usual validation requirement: How to validate if an Array is empty or not.

RDP Shortpath monitoring in Azure

Since Microsoft announced the RDP Shortpath feature was going to be enabled by default on September 6, 2022 for all Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) customers, monitoring and troubleshooting this feature has become important. RDP Shortpath feature improves the AVD connectivity by establishing a direct UDP protocol between the AVD session hosts and the Remote Desktop Client by reducing the dependency on gateways.