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Tips & Tricks for Working Remotely

As COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) cases start to challenge norms around what makes a healthy and safe workplace, more and more companies are leaning in or fully jumping in to embracing remote work. At PagerDuty, over 20% of our workforce is remote—so we are well set up to distribute if the time comes. Beyond the logistical aspects, we also have a strong culture of inclusivity when it comes to remote colleagues.

Free web monitoring tools

In English, the word “present” has two different meanings: the first one is “now”, as in now that you are reading this article, and also the meaning of gift. There is no misunderstanding here, but there is also the adjective “free”, which can mean free, something that does not need to be paid, or having freedom. Today we will see several free applications that you may use as web monitoring tools.

Kris Cowles on Why Running a SaaS Environment Isn't Always Easy

Today we share a recent conversation with Kris Cowles, Vice President, Global Applications IT at Topcon Positioning Systems, a 2,000-person division of Japanese company Topcon. Previously, Kris worked as the Director of Engineering Operations at Cisco. She discusses some of the growing pains of working with SaaS vendors and how she’s making it work.

CASB vs Cloud SIEM for SaaS Security

Today’s businesses spend more money on SaaS tools than on laptops. On average, today’s employees use a minimum of eight different SaaS tools. The security implications of this robust cloud landscape cannot be neglected and we trust you are fully aware of it already. As an IT leader, you are responsible for keeping your company’s cloud infrastructure secure, but with the multitude of cloud apps businesses use on a daily basis, you have less and less control of that security landscape.

What web hosting for WordPress? Here are 10 the most recommended options

For many years WordPress has invariably remained the CMS number 1, supporting about half of the world’s websites. All hosting service providers declare compatibility with WordPress – and in most cases this is true. WordPress has no excessive technical requirements. However, it can’t be denied that WP-based websites work better than elsewhere on the servers of certain providers. WordPress will work properly on any Apache or Nginx-based web hosting with a MySQL or MariaDB database.

Monitoring multi-cloud environments

In today’s fast-growth, faster-results market, your customers expect your applications to be always available and up-to-date. Meeting that demand often involves migrating to the cloud, which offers increased scalability and flexibility, allowing engineering teams to innovate more quickly and produce the delightful user experiences customers are looking for.

Introducing Now Intelligence

Here at ServiceNow we think people should be able to work the way they want to, not according to the rigid dictates of legacy software. Thanks to the Now Platform, help is on the way. The Now Platform Orlando release features new AI and analytics capabilities designed to make work, work better for people. We call this group of capabilities Now Intelligence. Now Intelligence enhances IT, employee, and customer workflows, so every department in your company can work smarter and faster.

InfluxData Community Update Q1 2020

At InfluxData, we love the community! Our amazing open source members are an integral part of InfluxData and have been since its founding. They’ve helped us build amazing products for time series data. This is a quick update to give you some insight into how we track metrics about our community and ensure we are building products and features that our users want to see.