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Microsoft 365 Outage, March 15th 2021

Exoprise CloudReady provides early detection of mission-critical mail outages. On March 15, Microsoft had a service outage worldwide that impacted its services such as Teams AV, Yammer, OneDrive, and Azure Active Directory. Users reported not being able to login into either of these services and were getting timeout messages. Exoprise detected the issue earlier at 3 pm EST (40 mins before Microsoft reported it) and was able to immediately relay the news to its customer base.

Is the cloud coming to all of us?

During the past twenty years, so much has changed in the IT office. Two decades ago, we were still using dial-up modems. Now, the entire world wide web is at our fingertips, and our world of IT is more efficient but complicated too. A few significant IT trends have also developed during this time. One of the most important is the cloud that has also become a common buzzword in business. Like many buzzwords, there is a lot of excitement and confusion surrounding the term.

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The Unprecedented Transformation of IT Goals in 2020

At the end of 2019, IT pros were making bold predictions about what 2020 would hold. But they weren't bold enough-time makes fools of us all, and hot takes fizzled rather than sizzled. From the continued evolution of smart devices and blockchain's continued rise in prominence to the falling price of compute workloads, there was rational thinking behind the predictions made at the end of 2019.

Azure DNS Outage - April 1st, 2021

Just about 2 weeks after its most recent outage, Microsoft experienced a severe DNS outage Thursday Evening at approximately 21:30 UTC on 01 Apr 2021. That’s the official start of the outage from Microsoft. But we all know that official starts and actual starts are often different. Exoprise DNS and server monitoring caught the error about 10 minutes earlier (not our biggest amount of headroom for an outage) but that is frequently the nature of DNS failures.

Debugging in PHP

PHP is a great language to start with when you are learning how to code. It has a simple syntax, it’s easy to learn and you can make dynamic websites with it. But even though it’s easy to write PHP code, it’s not always easy to debug. There are a lot of tools out there that can help you, but since PHP is an interpreted language, you can also use a couple of debugging techniques to help you find bugs in your code. In this blog post I'll cover the the following sections.

Puppet on Windows: Top questions (and answers!)

Whether you’re a current customer looking to expand across your Windows estate, or thinking of deploying Puppet across your infrastructure for the first time, we hope this blog post — based on real-world customer questions and problems — can help answer some of the questions you may have about Puppet.

Announcing our latest attacks to deal with meeting fatigue

Gremlin empowers you to proactively root out failure before it causes downtime. See how you can harness chaos to build resilient systems by requesting a demo of Gremlin. With everyone working remotely, video conference tools like Zoom have been a critical part of maintaining business continuity. It’s truly amazing that we can continue to work and connect with one another, even during a time where getting together in an office hasn’t been possible…

How Should your Business Approach Multi-Cloud Adoption?

The year 2020 can be seen as a major win for cloud infrastructure, even though it has been a tough year socioeconomically. Even before the pandemic, experts predicted that 83 percent of workloads of enterprises would be residing in the cloud by 2020. Now, as more enterprises are going full cloud, they are considering multi-cloud. As more people work from home, cloud computing is becoming more of a necessity. For a decade now, companies have been using the cloud for daily activities and communication.

Press Release: Scout APM Raises $8M; acquires ExceptionTrap

Camber Partners, a private equity firm focused on product-led SaaS companies, announced that it has completed an investment in Scout APM, a leading provider of Application Performance Management (APM) software. Scout APM helps developers and application administrators gain insight into their software’s performance by providing monitoring of key metrics surrounding web-application performance.

You should know about... these useful Prometheus alerting rules

Setting up Prometheus to scrape your targets for metrics is usually just one part of your larger observability strategy. The other piece in the equation is figuring out what you want your metrics to tell you and when and how often you should know about it. Thankfully, Prometheus makes it really easy for you to define alerting rules using PromQL, so you know when things are going north, south, or in no direction at all.