In an attempt to enhance and optimize business process excellence, companies from different industries are on a spree to try out advanced power platform entrants such as Microsoft Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, Power Virtual Bot, etc.

Businesses need maximum agility to survive these trying times. The Agility Issue of Workflow Quarterly is packed with insights to help your company power through the pandemic and emerge stronger on the other side. The issue presents new research by ESI ThoughtLab and ServiceNow on how the pandemic has affected business agility in enterprises around the world.

We began our security journey last year with the release of Datadog Security Monitoring, which provides runtime security visibility and detection capabilities for your environment. Today, we are thrilled to announce that Sqreen, an application security platform, is joining the Datadog team. Together, these products further integrate the work of security, development, and ops teams—and provide a robust, full-stack security monitoring solution for the cloud age.

You likely do not own your server, but you do have an interest in making sure the applications you run on your server remain responsive. You need to know the full story, and a combination of external and internal monitoring is how you get there. Marketers understand the word “responsive” to mean “capable of rendering on any screen”, but we can think about responsive in more fundamental terms.

As the manager for enterprise applications and data at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, I face a lot of unique challenges. The university itself has around 25,000 students, 1,000 permanent staff and another 1,000 seasonal staff who assist with key academic sessions. They’re spread out across the flagship campus at Sippy Downs and a number of satellite campuses and research and teaching facilities in other locations.

This question was raised at the recent Redgate Summit: How does the implementation of a microservices architecture affect the implementation of a database DevOps approach? I could even rephrase it a little: Does a microservices architecture affect a database DevOps approach?

You aren't sure how long you've been here, but the view outside the window sure is soothing. Before you can fully take in your surroundings, a siren rips you back into the conscious world. Slowly, you begin to piece together that you exist, and you are on call. The ringing, much louder now, pierces through your skull as you begin to open your bleary eyes. You turn over your pillow, grab your phone, and click through the PagerDuty notification.

When it comes to connecting to AWS, using a direct connect through a Software Defined Interconnection® platform like Console Connect can really help your business improve speed, security and control when accessing one of the world’s most popular cloud platforms.

Managing hardware assets, manually, from the time they are purchased to the time they are disposed of is a tedious, cumbersome task that is susceptible to many errors. These manual and scattered processes are often inaccurate and difficult to manage. Manual data keeping means that asset information is stored in silos, which raises the overhead expenses, increases the likelihood of asset theft and losses, and makes it hard to comply with the organization’s standards and regulations.

Prometheus’s remote write system has a lot of tunable knobs, and in the event of an issue, it can be unclear which ones to adjust. In this post, we’ll discuss some metrics that can help you diagnose remote write issues and decide which configuration parameters you may want to try changing. First, let’s discuss how remote write is implemented. In the past, remote write would duplicate samples coming into Prometheus via scrape.