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Elevate Your Cloud Security Posture with Splunk and Google Cloud

It’s more critical than ever to secure your company data and protect your workloads in the cloud. This blog post is a roundup of the latest technical resources and product capabilities by both Google Cloud and Splunk to enhance your threat prevention, detection, and response techniques, regardless of where you are in your business-transforming cloud journey.

How to Find and Fix IP Address Conflicts

IP address conflicts are an example of textbook “network problems”. There are multiple causes for IP conflicts, and, to make things even more fun, the behavior of devices experiencing an IP conflict can vary. Let’s explore IP conflicts in depth to help better understand what they are, why they occur, and how to fix IP address conflicts. An IP address conflict is a common network issue that occurs when two or more devices on the same network have the same IP.

Stackify + Netreo Creates a Dev + Ops Powerhouse

TLDR: Stackify is joining with Netreo to bring best-of-breed solutions for developers and IT operations. Together, their observability platform can help both small development teams and the world’s largest enterprises manage and monitor their applications and infrastructure. Stackify has been working for the last 9 years to help software developers monitor and deb their productions applications.

Tailored Expansions Make Measuring Digital Work Easier for IT

Every IT environment is different. Some depend heavily on an efficient reactive support team, others need to manage a totally decentralized workforce, while some focus their resources on an infallible security and compliance team. Whatever your IT ecosystem looks like, you need to make sure you are taking into account the things that matter most to you, your IT department and your business at large.

Log Shipping Using Fluent Bit and vSphere with Tanzu

One of the new features that came with the latest update of vSphere with Tanzu was the ability to use TKG Extensions. This powerful framework allows simplified deployment and management of multiple open source projects that are backed by VMware support, including alerting with Prometheus, visualization with Grafana, ingress with Contour, and logging with Fluent Bit.

AI and machine learning streamline workflows at Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is one of the most recognizable brands on the planet. That’s because wherever it’s produced, the quality, product, and design are the same. When three Coca-Cola companies merged in 2016 to create Coca-Cola European Partners, operational differences became apparent. The company needed a way to standardize platforms and processes across 13 Western European countries and 50 bottling plants. We had three systems in place, three ways of working, and multiple languages.

DHCP server monitoring made easy with OpUtils

In today’s complex IT infrastructures, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) servers play an indispensable role in automating IP allocation and configuration. A DHCP server’s capacity to allocate IPs to the requesting clients in real-time is one of the factors that ensures constant uptime of dynamic networks. However, even though a network’s availability depends on them, DHCP servers are often not closely monitored by IT teams.

N-able (Formerly SolarWinds MSP) Announces Partnership with DNSFilter to Help MSPs Protect Customers from Online Security Threats with Advanced DNS Technology

N-able (formerly SolarWinds MSP), the purpose-built partner for managed services providers (MSPs), has announced a collaboration with DNSFilter to integrate its cloud-based security solution with N-able™ N-central® and RMM, providing MSPs with threat protection and content filtering.