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How to Reduce Website Downtime

You are probably well aware of the negative impact downtime can have on your website and your company as a whole. Any period of downtime can quickly result in lost sales and leads, a factor which multiplies depending on the average traffic your website usually receives. What’s worse is that those lost sales and leads are likely to go to your competitors, as frustrated potential customers shop elsewhere for the product or service they were looking for on your website.

April 2020 Update: Goodbye "I never got that alert" and emergency alerting - the new Signl Center

Our April update is BIG. It introduces emergency alerting to reach you entire team. We hope this will be a bit of humble support to your organization in this Covid-19 crisis. The core of this release is the new signl center, the new place to track alerts and their delivery in real-time, to see incoming events and how they are processed. You can now send emergency alert to your entire team with a single click.

Splunk Rapid Adoption Packages - Part 1

In September 2019 Splunk unveiled a number of new pricing options which included: In this blog, we are going to focus on RAP which is short for Rapid Adoption Packages. Rapid Adoption Packages are something Splunk has introduced to help customers get up and running with various use cases across both IT Operations and Security.

Top 10 Things Keeping CISOs Up at Night in 2020

Chief information security officers (CISOs) face no shortage of challenges. Expanding attack surfaces and complex cloud security environments have given rise to new advanced threats. Compliance regulations have become more rigorous and punitive. And while digital transformation accelerates the pace of doing business, its impact is often limited by budget restrictions and security talent gaps. At Splunk we talk to hundreds of CISOs every year. Here's what they told us they care about in 2020.

Real-Time Retail in Asia Pacific: Ensuring Exceptional Customer Experience in an Always-On World

Across Asia Pacific, “Real-Time Retail” and e-commerce have never been more essential to meet the expectations of always-on, connected customers than it is today. To be successful, e-retailers need to ensure high availability and functionality across complex, interconnected services such as payment gateways, inventory and order management, and website and mobile apps.

Status Page Monitoring in Microsoft Teams

Exactly two years ago, Microsoft announced Teams at an elaborate launch event in New York City. Hailed by many as a “Slack killer“, Teams was positioned by Microsoft as a group messaging platform. It was clear from the start that they took aim directly at Slack and its numerous competitors. Slack even acknowledged the encroachment of Microsoft in a full page ad in the New York Times.

Feedback: 6 benefits of Kotlin for building server-side applications

Kotlin is a programming language over the JVM (like Java). It is well known for being the official programming language for Android. But Kotlin is a reliable and powerful programming language that can also be used for server-side applications. I have been using Kotlin for 4 years to develop server-side applications. Here are the 6 reasons why it is a great choice for building your next backend: Java is one of the vastest ecosystems in the programming world.

NiCE DB2 Management Pack 4.40 for Microsoft SCOM

The NiCE DB2 Management Pack enables advanced health and performance diagnostics for Db2 databases. Health and performance measurement is directly displayed in your Microsoft System Center console. Integrations into SquaredUp dashboards make it even easier to tune Db2 monitoring. Leverage your existing investment, reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies that will last beyond your expectations.