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Top 5 Challenges in Cloud Migration and How to Handle Them

In our previous blog post, we discussed how we are approaching an important inflection point in the cloud migration timeline. Certain legacy applications will remain on owned infrastructure for the foreseeable future, but the scale and agility offered by cloud platforms offers competitive and operational advantages that most organizations cannot ignore. As cloud adoption became mainstream, many enterprises saw fewer objections to migrating their infrastructure to cloud.

Our Top 10 Kubernetes and Cloud Native Guides For 2019

2019 has been a great year for cloud native technologies. This year we launched the world's first managed Kubernetes service back-ended by Rancher's k3s distribution, opened the #KUBE100 beta, and watched our users create some really neat things on our platform. To that end, we wanted to highlight some of our top posts from the wider Civo community, and posts that showcase the exciting state of play of the cloud native landscape at the moment.

Create your own Docker containers to test and deploy applications

If you are a developer, a systems administrator, you work in the information technology sector or you are simply a technology enthusiast who has ever deployed some type of application, surely you will have faced the same problem we all ran into. If you are thinking of dependencies, bingo!

Monitor systemd with Datadog

Systemd is an initialization program that manages processes on Linux systems. It was designed to improve the performance of its predecessors by creating a dependency tree of system components, initializing them only when needed, and using as much parallelization as possible. With systemd becoming ubiquitous in Linux distributions, it’s crucial that you monitor the health and performance of both systemd and the components that it manages.

ManageEngine recognized as November 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for IT service management tools

ServiceDesk Plus, ManageEngine’s flagship ITSM software, has helped over 100,000 service desks around the globe streamline and efficiently manage their IT service management processes. Now, we’re excited to announce that we’ve been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for IT service management tools! This is a testament to the extensive ITSM capabilities of ServiceDesk Plus.

Transparency in Incident Response

When your production systems are hit with a critical issue, you can trust your DevOps team, your Sysadmins or your SREs to get the system back on track. This is a no brainer. And in turn, these folks need to be able to trust the rest of the team to let them do their jobs, be it engineering, customer support or product management. But where does this trust come from? It comes from understanding - the more you understand, the more you can trust.