In today's digital landscape, businesses rely heavily on various online operations to deliver services, communicate with customers, and maintain a competitive edge. Behind the scenes, cron jobs play a pivotal role in automating critical processes such as data backups, report generation, and system maintenance. However, ensuring the reliability of these cron jobs is often overlooked until a disruption occurs.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released a new cloud deployment option – ”Dedicated Local Zones” targeted at public sector, government and regulated industry use cases. Many customers still rely on on-premises infrastructure to meet regulatory and compliance requirements such as data localization. You can read the details of the AWS announcement including which services Dedicated Local Zones will support, here: Announcing AWS Dedicated Local Zones (amazon.com).

Do you find yourself lying awake late at night, worried that your greatest observability fears will materialize as one of the most horrific specters of Kubernetes-driven chaos reaches up through your mattress to consume your very soul?

Mattermost Playbooks are configurable checklists that power team workflows with automation and real-time messaging. At a high level, Playbooks help teams work through recurring workflows efficiently, making sure all important tasks are taken care of while keeping teams aligned.

‍Catchpoint introduces new capabilities that make the Internet better. Our Fall 2023 Product Launch event showcased Catchpoint’s latest innovations to accelerate time to detection, improve automation capabilities, and further expand our Global Observability Network.

What is Customer Data Management? Simply put, customer data management (CDM) is a discipline that encompasses the process, strategy, tools and policies an organization employs to acquire, manage, store and use data about its customers, specifically for marketing purposes.

When working and dealing with asynchronous messaging patterns – in this case, using Azure Service Bus – depending on the requirements, you will find many scenarios when you need to reprocess messages. Sometimes, a message failed because a system was offline for a certain period, there was a bug with the service, and we needed to resend specific messages and many other reasons.

As we make Spot Connect available for all users today, we’re taking a moment to look back at the journey we’ve embarked upon since its beta release. Spot Connect made its debut with a clear vision—to revolutionize cloud operations by automating workflows, and the response from the Spot by NetApp community has been instrumental in shaping its evolution. Here’s a retrospective on the key milestones and lessons we’ve gained during this transformative year.