The Kinsing attack has recently been reported by security researchers, and it is well known for targeting misconfigured cloud native environments. It is also known for its comprehensive attack patterns, as well as defense evasion schemes. A misconfigured host or cluster could be exploited to run any container desired by the attacker. That would cause outages on your service or be used to perform lateral movement to other services, compromising your data.

You may have heard that Spiceworks Ziff Davis (SWZD) has acquired Aberdeen, a leading global provider of behavioral-based marketing solutions and research. As the SWZD and Aberdeen teams begin to work as one entity, it is important to us that we remain transparent with you, our Community. We're very excited about this next step in an ongoing strategy that emphasizes the opportunity to showcase our data-driven solutions that will ultimately reshape the tech playbook.

Elasticsearch was designed to allow its users to get up and running quickly, without having to understand all of its inner workings. However, more often than not, it’s only a matter of time before you run into configuration troubles. Elasticsearch is open-source software that indexes and stores information in a NoSQL database and is based on the Lucene search engine. Elasticsearch is also part of the ELK Stack.

For those on an ITIL journey, ServiceNow appears to be the service to beat. ServiceNow has tremendous flexibility and thousands of different workflows to support your business. And if you’re using SCOM to populate your CMDB, you’re leaps and bounds ahead of the average organization. Sadly, that flexibility comes with the cost of being stuck inside of the ServiceNow web interface.

In the first of our new technical blogs, Solution Architect Cameron Parry explains how network and cloud architects can effectively use Console Connect within their hybrid and multi-cloud environments. More than 20 years ago, Peter Deutsch and James Gosling outlined the eight fallacies of distributed computing.

Fiber optic cables carrying massive amounts of information on pulsating beams of light are a critical part of the physical infrastructure supporting our digital society. By their nature, these cables are highly exposed, spanning huge distances in territories beyond the control of a network operator whether underground, under water or on aerial cables, and popping up in equipment huts.

Bloomfield, NJ – December 15th, 2020 — Alloy Software announced today that Consumer World Awards®, world’s top achievement awards program for the consumer industry, has named Alloy Software a Silver Winner in the “Company Response of the Year During COVID-19” category. Consumer World Awards recognize consumer products, companies and people globally in various categories.

A networking problem can come from almost any fault within the infrastructure, whether it’s a bandwidth bottleneck, configuration issues, or a faulty networking component. But more than half of IT system outages are caused by hardware failure. The ability to quickly identify and resolve hardware issues goes a long way toward ensuring optimized performance. While this may seem like a simple solution, there are many, many potential hardware failure points, each of which can contribute to a slowdown.

One benefit of the lockdown triggered by the coronavirus epidemic has been a renewed enthusiasm for working at home. Forced to let millions of employees work from home to avoid contagion, companies that had been hesitant about taking this step have concluded they can benefit from moving to a remote workforce.

DevOps automation solves common challenges that revolve around a lack of visibility to the entire environment. A lack of visibility, non-discrete tools, and a lack of hard data to capacity plan or assess success in your dev environment, often leads to using several tools that tend to contradict each other.