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The latest News and Information on Cloud monitoring, security and related technologies.

Maintaining reliable services with advanced Cloud Logging features

We’ve covered ingesting, routing, storing, and viewing logs from your services in Cloud Logging already, but what else can you do with all that data? In this episode of Engineering for Reliability, we show how you can use advanced features like alerting on logs, logs-based metrics, and capturing application exceptions in Error Reporting. Watch to learn how you can find issues faster, make your services more reliable, and keep your users happy.

Creating The Perfect Variance Analysis Report: 5 Best Practices

A variance analysis report is used to measure actual performance against your budgeted or planned performance. From a finance perspective, it’s essentially a way to measure your organization’s planning effectiveness. While there are a number of reasons you might be surprised by your variance analysis, it can be a signal that something went wrong along the way and you have not been collaborating with your team, are using the wrong tools, or have ineffective processes.

Top 8 uses of cloud computing

The cloud is gaining widespread adoption. For many organizations, cloud computing has become an indispensable tool for communication and collaboration across distributed teams. Whether you are on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, or Azure. the cloud can reduce costs, increase flexibility, and optimize resources. If you have spent your career in buzzing server rooms full of cable nests, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about.

How Lowe's SRE reduced its mean time to recovery (MTTR) by over 80 percent

The stakes of managing Lowes.com have never been higher, and that means spotting, troubleshooting and recovering from incidents as quickly as possible, so that customers can continue to do business on our site. To do that, it’s crucial to have solid incident engineering practices in place. Resolving an incident means mitigating the impact and/or restoring the service to its previous condition.

Cloud or On-Prem? With Monitoring, It's Both-And, Not Either-Or

Despite the migration of services and systems to cloud (either all or in part), many of the fundamental aspects of the day-to-day work IT practitioners do hasn’t changed. It’s just moved. In this session, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg discuss that state of affairs, as well as what monitoring can do to help view those resources as a contiguous whole, despite possibly being split across the on-prem/cloud divide.

Why Migrate to Cloud Now?

Cloud has become the go-to location for businesses to store data and build infrastructure. Many organizations have shifted their applications to cloud platforms, and many of those businesses that have their data on-premise ecosystem today are soon planning to migrate to the cloud. Studies reveal that the main drivers for cloud migration are security, cost-efficiency and modernization capabilities. But is not limited to this, a lot more is yet to realize. In respect of the current situation, the transition from legacy software and cloud is a strategic step. It is becoming a must-have step for business continuity for most companies.

Why DDoS remains a bigger threat than ever in the age of the cloud

Distributed denial of service attacks are one of the most established, and oldest, modes of cyber attack, dating back at least a quarter of a century to the mid-1990s. The cloud, on the other hand, is one of the newer revolutions in the tech world. While the term "cloud computing" was actually coined at approximately the same time as the inaugural DDoS attack, it is only over the past several years that the cloud has truly become a ubiquitous part of the computing landscape.

Cloud Migration Cost: A Guide

With cloud technology opening up a world of new business opportunities, it has become indispensable for many modern enterprises. From enriching business models and upgrading current infrastructure to delivering the finest customer services, the potentials of cloud technology are immeasurable. To benefit from the cloud, businesses are investing heavily in migrating or modernizing their existing systems to the cloud platform.