Choosing between blade servers or those intended to go installed in a rack is a small headache that is repeated daily in the complex minds of technicians around the world. What configuration to choose? What can best serve my installation? These are questions that are repeated while they pull out their silvery and silky hairs.

IDG’s recent “State of the CIO” survey across IT leaders has revealed the impact of COVID-19 on IT organizations and the sudden and unforeseen shifts of their initial 2020 plans.

With the release of the Splunk Enterprise Dashboards Beta version 0.5.2 comes an exciting new feature that I’m sure many people will find useful: Choropleth SVG Objects. What are Choropleth SVG Objects? Put simply, it’s painting with data. To help you navigate getting started with the current iteration of this feature, I’m writing a blog to show you just how easy it is to use and create absolutely custom SVG objects.

Application performance monitoring (APM) and logging both provide critical insight into your ecosystem. When paired together with context, they can provide vital clues on how to resolve problems with your applications. As the log data you analyze becomes more complex, navigating to the relevant pieces can be tricky using traditional tools. With Elastic Observability (powered by the Elastic Stack), correlating logs with APM is as simple as a few clicks in Kibana.

“If it’s not in Salesforce, it didn’t happen.” You’ve undoubtedly heard it, or perhaps you’ve said it yourself. And why not? Over the past 15 years, Salesforce has redefined the CRM industry, becoming the de facto solution for managing sales, customer service, marketing automation, and analytics functions with its cloud-only approach. As Salesforce’s solutions have expanded so has their user base.

It’s Friday at about quitting time, and my plans for the evening involved a great cocktail, hanging out with friends, and maybe continuing to binge The Office. Sadly, there was a problem. Our alerting system detected an enormous and immediate spike in errors. The error description was along the lines of “table ‘servers’ does not exist” and thousands of customers couldn’t use a large cloud provider’s services.

A new kind of spam is being observed in the field that uses the browser notification feature to trick users into subscribing to sites that will in turn bombard users with notifications usually related to click or add profit schemes. Subscription notification request seen below: Browser notification subscription requests are a legitimate feature that allows visitors of a site to be notified when there is new content available. It saves users the need to constantly refresh or keep open browser tabs.

At Stackify, we’re all about helping you improve your application’s performance. We have actually developed two code profilers ourselves. Because of that, we like to think we know a thing or two about code profiling. Today I want to talk about the three different types of code profilers, describe the differences between them, and recommend some tools for your toolbox.

In Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the OpenSSL 1.1.1f library has been modified to use Security Level 2 by default (previous versions of Ubuntu use Security Level 1). Security Level 2 guarantees that protocols, key exchange mechanisms, cipher suites, signature algorithms, certificates and key sizes provide a minimum of 112 bits of message secrecy. In practice, it means that RSA keys are required to be at least 2048 bits long and ECC keys at least 224 bits using the SHA256 certificate signature algorithm.

Canonical has received FIPS 140-2, Level 1 certification for cryptographic modules in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, with FIPS-validated OpenSSL-1.1.1. modules included. This certification enables organisations to meet compliance requirements within the public sector, healthcare and finance industries when utilising Ubuntu 18.04 LTS within public and private cloud environments. Canonical worked with U.S. Government and BSI accredited laboratory, atsec information security, for the 18.04 LTS FIPS certification.