Demand forecasting is the process of predicting future demand for a company’s products or services. Understanding how many customers will want to purchase or use something is critical for acquiring inventory, planning capacity, scheduling resources, producing products and managing the supply chain. How many people should you schedule for a work shift? How many widgets should you produce this quarter? When should you build additional capacity into your systems?

I’ve spent a lot of time with the development community over the years but every time I get to talk to people in the serverless community I’m constantly surprised by the passion and the general excitement over this technology. Below is one of the latest of said topics and I wanted to share it with you.

What a pleasure it was to see many of our customers at our Illuminate user conference, September 11-12. We had record attendance from customers, influencers, and partners. Our time was packed with keynotes, customer presentations (35 customer breakout sessions), certifications, sharing best practices, and time networking and having fun together.

Jim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape, once said “If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” While Jim may have said this in jest, the exponential boom in data collection indicates that we increasingly prefer to rely on facts rather than conjecture when making business decisions. More data yields greater insights about customer preferences and experiences, internal processes, and security vulnerabilities — just to name a few.

Managing an application’s performance, and specifically keeping it in good condition, is one of the hardest challenges in software development. That’s true for virtually any programming language and platform. Java is no exception to this rule. But beyond that, Java also presents some unique challenges of its own.

Plagiarism remains a big issue online to this day. Some copy from Wikipedia, while others may steal your own work. In addition to that, the content writers you hire may accidentally or intentionally plagiarize their articles. This is why checking for duplicate text is so important, and here are twenty best duplicate content checkers to use in 2019.

A few months ago we published a price comparison blog which compared every available website monitoring service on price. In this post, we ignore price completely and provide an in-depth feature comparison between Pro and Free services. This post is intended to compliment our Plans page by providing a detailed comparison between Pro and Free features...

Last month, the Digital Enterprise Journal (DEJ) recognized OpsRamp as a Top 20 Vendor for enabling best- performing organizations in managing IT operations. DEJ's recent report features OpsRamp in the Top 20 Vendors for Enabling Best Performing Organizations. Meanwhile, the field marketing team controlled the chaos at several industry events like IDG Chicago, ConnecTech Houston and CIO Summit by Sapphire Ventures.

In 2018, we released the inaugural Managing Network Vendor Diversity Report, where we discovered that MSPs face a serious challenge: There’s high vendor diversity in the network hardware they operate. In the short year since then, the managed services industry has experienced a lot of change: tech trends are evolving, new products are being released, and client expectations are growing. So what was true in 2018 might not be any longer.

Virtana, the leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads, today announced a wide range of new channel-focused features in the latest version of VirtualWisdom, the industry’s most comprehensive hybrid IT infrastructure management and AIOps platform. The new features include the introduction of WisdomPacks,simplified packages of integrations specific to customer deployment environments.