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100 Funny Wifi Names For Your Home, Office, or Hotspot

The best thing about moving into a new home is getting to call it your own. But the second-best thing is coming up with a funny wifi name you can tell your friends about. As people say, “home is where the wifi connects automatically!” And you certainly shouldn't leave its name up to chance. While setting up your internet is one of the first things you do after moving, simply connecting to a random scramble of characters does not feel very personal, does it?

Realtime performance alerts for cloud desktops

The thermostat for the first floor of my house is located right behind me in my home office. I probably walk by it a dozen times a day, but I only look at it if I am feeling cold or warm to check to see if the temperature is set to the correct value. In Massachusetts, hot and cold are seasonal but can vary a lot day to day so checking occurs more often than you would think.

Amazon Sagemaker Pricing Explained: A Guide For 2023

Amazon SageMaker makes it easy to prepare data for machine learning (ML) and then train, deploy, and modify ML models. SageMaker is a fully managed service that automates much of the ML lifecycle. So, if you want a single partner to help you through all stages of your Artificial Intelligence (AI) lifecycle, SageMaker might be the answer. Perhaps more important for this post is the promise that Amazon SageMaker can reduce your machine learning model costs. But does SageMaker pricing reflect this?

Cloud security: How remote work created a new problem

In 2020, remote work exploded with the start of COVID-19 as businesses scrambled to stay productive and competitive amidst health concerns and quarantines. During the pandemic, close to 70% of workers were working from home. Currently, 4.7 million people work remotely at least half the time in the US, and 62% of workers claim to work remotely at least occasionally.
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What's Using Your Bandwidth? Here's a Monitoring Tool

Bandwidth monitoring provides IT administrators with the assurance that the network has sufficient capacity to run business-critical applications. In addition, network ops team have end-to-end visibility to identify network hogs that cause the congestion. Typically, when a single component overloads in any network, it can bring the entire operation to its knees and impact the employee digital experience. For example, even if you may have a dedicated service plan from your ISP, employees will end up complaining about issues like large file transfer time and slower applications.

How Cloud Asset Management Provides Fuller Inventory Visibility

Cloud adoption has grown in recent years. From organizations developing a cloud-native strategy to those focused on cloud migration, there are many different ways to consume the cloud. No matter the reason for choosing the cloud or how organizations get there, many overlook one critical piece of the puzzle: cloud asset management. Have you been frustrated by figuring out what you have deployed in what cloud? If so, you're not alone. Let's examine why this is so important.

Hybrid cloud infrastructure modernisation

Public clouds enabled digital transformation at unprecedented speed. But their operational costs over time can be exacting as compute needs increase. Hybrid clouds emerged as an alternative to gain the benefits of both worlds: private infrastructure that allows for lower operational expenditures and tighter control, and public clouds that can scale with ease.

The 7 Best FinOps Blogs, Books, And Other Resources

There are almost as many reasons for learning FinOps practices as there are resources available to learn from. Maybe you operate a SaaS company, for example, or you're looking for a job in FinOps. The FinOps field grows in importance every time cloud services and their associated costs become more complex — which can feel like every single day. Regardless of your situation, you’ll need high-quality FinOps resources that offer up-to-date materials and in-depth information.

Serverless360 API Monitor and the Azure Management API

We have recently added the API Monitoring feature to Serverless360 and this opens up a wide range of monitoring opportunities. The principle of API Monitor is that you have an API endpoint that you want Serverless360 to periodically call and then you will make assertions against the response to check if the API is healthy or not.

Internxt 2022: A Year of Improvement, Growth, and New Services

As you surely know by now, Internxt's mission is to create a world where technology truly empowers humanity. Tech corporations nowadays provide services where the user becomes the product. In direct contrast, we aspire to become a better, smarter, more compassionate company capable of competing with these giants by applying innovation more efficiently and ethically.