Ken has over 15 years of industry experience as a noted information and cybersecurity practitioner, software developer, author, and presenter, focusing on endpoint security, big security data analytics, and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and NIST 800-53 compliance. Focusing on strict federal standards, Ken has consulted with numerous federal organizations, including Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Census Bureau.

If you’re using Azure SQL Database for your applications or business, you’ve probably noticed that while the service is amazing for scalability and management, it can get expensive pretty fast. That’s where Azure SQL reservations come in. It is an awesome way to save money. In this blog, we’re going to break down what Azure SQL reservations are, how they work, and why you might want to consider them for your organization. Let’s dive in, shall we?

I had a fantastic opportunity to sit with Ben Good of Google and Rich Prillinger of Mezmo and participate in the discussion about the new DORA 2024 report. The 10th edition of the DORA report covers the impact of AI on software development, explores platform engineering’s promises and challenges, and emphasizes developer experience and stable priorities for success.

As networks become more complex, the demand for automation has surged. There has been a huge uptick in the concept of autonomous networks—a transformative model redefining how telecom and IT networks operate. But what are they, and why are they essential for today’s digital-first world? Let’s break it down.

Many businesses rely on cloud infrastructure to power their software solutions. The cloud today makes it easier than ever to create services and components, increasingly the complexity of software. With more and often smaller processes, cloud-native architectures have driven the need for better insights into our software—a way to look into how these processes fit together.

Microsoft has officially released Windows Server 2025 for general availability in early November, 2024. While this update has been expected for a long time, we want to cover the five major changes that have been rolled out with this release. Before we start with the features, let's start with two important questions that need to be addressed. Does Site24x7's server monitoring agent support Windows Server 2025? Yes. Our server monitoring agents work on Windows Server 2025.

It happens often that an application, when running on bare metal, performs well. However, after the application is packed into an image, tested on Docker/Podman, then migrated to Kubernetes, performance plummets. With an increasing number of database calls issued by the application, the application response times increase. This common situation is often due to data transfer induced I/O delays.

As businesses scale, managing infrastructure becomes increasingly complex and distributed, leading to challenges in consistency, performance, and security. Manual configurations and outdated practices can no longer meet the demands of today’s highly competitive businesses. To tackle these issues, adopting a phased approach; Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2; provides a practical roadmap for scaling infrastructure automation effectively.

Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts that will walk you through the key network monitoring and observability capabilities of the SolarWinds Observability SaaS option. Simplicity has always been at the heart of our product ethos, and our recent decision to bring our self-hosted and SaaS observability options under the single umbrella of SolarWinds Observability embodies this ethos.

The world of embedded systems evolves, with devices growing ever more sophisticated and software-centric. In this new landscape, with highly interconnected environments that defy traditional testing and debugging approaches, a reactive, fire-fighting mentality is no longer sufficient. Developers need a proactive strategy to gain continuous visibility into system behaviour—a strategy known as observability-driven development (ODD).