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Automating On-Call Scheduling With Squadcast: Simplify Managing Schedules

Navigating an extensive excel sheet to determine On-Call schedules and vacation plans can be daunting. The struggle of maintaining On-Call Schedules manually is real. But we've got a solution that can help. This blog addresses the challenges associated with manualOn Call Scheduling processes.

What Is Network Monitoring and Why Is It Essential?

Network monitoring is an essential pillar of maintaining a healthy IT infrastructure. Without an effective network monitoring system in place, your organization could be losing out on better performance, greater efficiency and increased cost savings. In this guide, we'll walk you through everything you need to know about network monitoring to understand what it is and why it’s critical for your operations.

Navigating Software Selection: Unleashing the Power of Scenario Planning and Node Analysis

Node Analysis and Scenario Planning are invaluable tools for strategic software selection. They empower organizations to anticipate and prepare for a multitude of future scenarios and their potential impacts. When it comes to selecting a software vendor, these approaches enable organizations to comprehensively assess a wide range of possible futures and evaluate the performance of each software vendor's solution under various conditions.

Apple AirTag vs Samsung SmartTag: Which One Is Right for You?

Have you ever been late for work, locked inside your house, or lost the partner to your pair of favorite socks? Sometimes, our keys, wallets, or other belongings can end up in the Twilight Zone, lost in some multiverse of other objects that have been misplaced through centuries. Maybe they’re in the Room of Requirement from Harry Potter? Wherever they are, it's a mystery that will likely never be sold. Until now.

Better Practices for Connecting Cribl Stream to Many Splunk Indexers

Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge can send data to Splunk in several different ways. In this blog post, we’ll focus on the common scenario where you want to connect Cribl Stream’s Splunk Load Balanced Destination to many Splunk Indexers at once. (We’ll talk about Cribl Stream, but what we say applies to Cribl Edge, too.) Cribl Destinations settings default to reasonable values. Sometimes Cribl Support recommends changing those values for better results in a given situation.

Using Kentik Journeys for Network Troubleshooting

Kentik Journeys uses an AI-based, large language model to explore data from your network and troubleshoot problems in real time. Using natural language queries, Kentik Journeys is a huge step forward in leveraging AI to democratize data and make it simple for any engineer at any level to analyze network telemetry at scale.

Announcing Longhorn 1.6.0

The Longhorn team is excited to announce the latest minor release, version 1.6.0! This release introduces several features, enhancements, and bug fixes that are intended to improve system quality and the overall user experience. Specifically, this release includes a further feature preview of the highly anticipated Longhorn Data Engine Version 2.0, platform-agnostic deployment, node maintenance, and improvements to stability, performance, and resilience.

Unified user management is generally available for new Bitbucket Cloud workspaces!

We are excited to announce that unified user management is now generally available for new Bitbucket Cloud workspaces. Unified user management brings Bitbucket user, group, and product access management to Atlassian Admin. This means that you can manage users across your Atlassian tools in one unified place and connect to external directories via Atlassian Access.

Optimizing the Retail Returns Process

January often means the longest lines in the retail store are for returns. And, maybe ironically, those returns are regularly processed at the Customer Service desk. That right there — that’s an annual challenge. Consumers entering a store to make a return or exchange are already feeling inconvenienced. They bought or received an item they can’t use, and they’re at the store to resolve that problem.

The Business Cost of Downtime and How AIOps Enables Faster Fixes

IT downtime is no doubt a costly business. As soon as service starts to degrade, companies start to lose money. Studies by Gartner and IBM show that the average cost of unplanned downtime to enterprises ranges between a staggering $5,600 and $9,000 per minute. For ecommerce businesses, like Amazon, the stakes are even higher, potentially resulting in a loss of up to $220,000 for every minute of downtime.