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What is Azure Blob?

Today, data is invaluable. Many businesses store large amounts of it for everyday operations. Some information is stored in a hierarchical form, but companies must often hold significant amounts of data without any organization. The solution? Microsoft Azure’s Blob Storage. In this article, we’ll consider the key elements of Blob Storage, how it works, and why it’s important.

Improve your EC2 rightsizing recommendations with Datadog and AWS Compute Optimizer

While cloud solutions can give you greater flexibility as you scale your infrastructure, limited visibility into resource utilization makes provisioning the right amount of compute resources challenging. To ensure that every workload is fully supported, many organizations may opt to over-provision, which leads to overspending. Or, in an attempt to maximize cost savings, organizations may under-provision, leaving workloads unsupported and risking serious performance impacts.

Monitor your mobile apps with Embrace's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

Embrace is a mobile application monitoring solution that helps you track and troubleshoot mobile app performance by combining data analytics, real user monitoring, network performance monitoring, and hardware monitoring in a single platform. We’re pleased to partner with Embrace to offer an out-of-the-box Embrace Datadog app and software license in the Datadog Marketplace.

WireGuard vs OpenVPN: Which VPN Protocol Is Better?

VPNs use protocols to create a secure and anonymous internet connection. OpenVPN and WireGuard are some of the most popular VPN protocols in town. Whereas OpenVPN has been a fan favorite for over two decades, the new contender on the market, WireGuard, is making big waves in the VPN industry. However, the question remains, which one is better? OpenVPN or WireGuard? This article aims to give you this answer.

Cribl Supports Multiple AWS Account Monitoring and Analytics with New Account Factory Customization

Keeping with our mission of helping customers gain radical levels of choice and control with their observability data, we’re excited to announce full support for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Account Factory Customization solution within AWS Control Tower console. Customers can now use AWS Control Tower to define account blueprints that scale their multi-account provisioning in a streamlined manner.

Are your websites ready to handle traffic peaks this holiday season?

The final 4 months of the year are an incredibly busy time for retailers, as holiday sales are in full swing from early October and continue all the way into the new year. That’s a whole lot of time for increased holiday web traffic to cause performance issues, and during the busiest sales period of the year - there’s no time to lose.

PagerDuty at re:Invent 2022 Launches Automated Diagnostics for AWS that Enables Organizations to Resolve Incidents Faster So They Can Innovate More

It’s that time of the year! PagerDuty is coming back to sin city for AWS re: Invent 2022! The global conference brings organizations of all sizes and is set to explore themes of modernization, automation, and resiliency in the cloud. With current economic conditions, enterprises are looking to scale operations and optimize costs while delivering always-on, digital experiences to their customers. Automaton plays a key role in helping support operational and cost efficiency.

New Honeycomb Integrations Let You Bubble Up Lurking AWS Issues

Today, we’re announcing the expansion of Honeycomb integrations with various AWS services. This update now covers a much wider swath of AWS services, makes it easier to integrate your AWS stack with Honeycomb, and with our new BubbleUp enhancements, you’ll be identifying and debugging hidden issues in your AWS stack faster than ever.

If Modified Henry Ford Were Your CIO, You'd Be Crushing It in the Cloud

I was hesitant to write a piece on Henry Ford because of his unsavory political views that have tarnished his reputation. However, if we focus on Ford only as a businessman and innovator we can draw some compelling parallels to today’s industrial and business landscape. Thus, for this article we will postulate a modified Henry Ford, a virtual character who possesses only Henry Ford’s positive qualities.