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How To Decommission A Data Center

The potential for disrupting business is much greater when you decommission a data center than if you’re constructing one. The process involves a lot more than just shutting down servers, turning off switches, and dismantling storage racks. In this article, we’ll consider some of the specifics and best practices required to achieve a smooth decommissioning process.

InfluxDB Cloud Now Available on Google Cloud

Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of InfluxDB Cloud for Google Cloud. With this new service, GCP users can now use our leading time series data platform on Google infrastructure. This lets you address a wide range of use cases: server monitoring, IoT sensor data tracking, real-time customer analytics, application performance metrics, network monitoring, security threat detection, and financial market analysis.

InfluxData announces availability of the leading time series platform on Google Cloud

SAN FRANCISCO — February 4, 2020 — InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, today announced the availability of InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud. The strategic collaboration, originally announced in April 2019, is part of a major Google Cloud initiative to make the most powerful open source technologies more accessible to its customer base.

Global Packaging Provider picks NiCE Active 365 Management Pack

NiCE IT Management Solutions is proud to serve global key-players in advanced Microsoft Office 365 performance and health monitoring. Read the latest customer reference on how the NiCE Active 365 Management Pack is enabling a global packaging solution provider to stay on top of Microsoft Office 365 monitoring operations.

IT security: Disrupting the cybersecurity kill chain by detecting domain reconnaissance

Cyberattacks are a growing threat, and organizations are investing time and money in security strategies to make certain that their infrastructures are secure. Active Directory (AD) is a constant target for compromise, as it’s at the core of any organization’s security — it handles authentication and authorization for all users in an organization.

Introducing the New ServiceNow Plugin for Grafana

Greetings! This is Christine and Eldin reporting from Solutions Engineering, a team at Grafana Labs dedicated to helping users maximize what our Enterprise and Cloud products can do for your orgs. In a previous life, Eldin managed the customer experience department for several different companies and still remembers the pain of running daily reports so his team could have visibility into their ticket queues.

How to Identify Poor Drive Mapping to GPOs is Root Cause of Slow Logons

End users are complaining of slow logons and IT cannot quickly identify root cause. When trying to identify the root cause of a Citrix end-user experience issue, the main display to view all of the Citrix user sessions is the Goliath’s Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops session display.

What Vending-Machines Have to Do With Your Microservices Architecture

Orchestrating and composing multiple services in a distributed architecture is not easy. Before we move along with the great solution offered by vending-machines to our distributed architectures, we need to understand what solutions and values we’re looking for. In a serverless environment, there are at least three desired properties of any distributed services implementation.

Data analytics with Jaeger aka traces tell us more!

I will get straight to the point, Jaeger at the moment only visualizes collected data from instrumented applications. It does not perform any post-processing (except service dependency diagram) or any calculations to derive other interesting metrics or features from traces it collects. This is a pity because traces contain the richest information from all telemetry signals combined!

9 Powerful Quotes That Perfectly Capture The Future of Digital Work

It’s impossible to know exactly what lies ahead in the future of digital work but there are a few technology leaders and analysts out there that always seem to stay ahead of the game. These people can often articulate complex changes in enterprise technology and digital work with simple, sharp language. Luckily, we’ve compiled some of the most telling quotes from top digital workplace experts to help companies and leaders better understand what matters most in the future of work.