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What is bandwidth and how does it affect your connections?

What is bandwidth? Over the last few years, and at the dawn of the very celebrated arrival of the Internet into our homes and our beloved cell phones, concepts such as bandwidth, previously restricted to more technical contexts, have come into our lives hand in hand with waves of experts who recommend this or that connection based on criteria that usually fits your brother-in-law’s wisdom.

Bigger is Better with Splunk TV: Highlights of .conf20

Last year at .conf19, we announced the GA release of Splunk TV, our free app for Apple TV that provides users with a secure, reliable, read-only platform to display Splunk dashboards on their TVs. Splunk TV was built with security in mind, to power your SOCs and NOCs. Using Splunk TV instead of running dedicated computers to power each screen saves money and increases security. The read-only experience eliminates the risk of someone with physical access tampering with your environment.

Monitoring Azure infrastructure with Filebeat and Elastic Observability

The ability to access the internal state of your application ecosystem is critical to optimizing your applications and the experience of your users. Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure gives you access to Elastic Observability, allowing you to monitor your infrastructure and see how every signal interrelates by utilizing a wide variety of resources that can be deployed in minutes.

Hybrid cloud: easing the migration pain

Most enterprises today are in the stages of a hybrid cloud migration, and no matter how they view this migration or implement it, the challenges they face are fairly common across the board. Does that mean there are common best practices for a hybrid cloud migration, and if so – what are they? Join us in a CTO Perspective discussion with Scott Stradley, Field CTO at BigPanda. Lean back and watch the interview, or if you prefer reading, take a few minutes to read the transcript.

How to switch the Docker container runtime to containerd with Charmed Kubernetes

This article describes how easy it is for users of Charmed Kubernetes to switch from the Docker container runtime to containerd. You may have heard that Kubernetes is deprecating Docker as a container runtime after v1.20. Docker as an underlying runtime is being deprecated in favor of runtimes that use the Container Runtime Interface(CRI) created for Kubernetes, such as containerd.

Hosted Public Status Pages - a Must-Have for Every SaaS

Status pages have come a long way since their inception. They’re much more than just simple indicators. These days, they’ve become a critical aspect for companies embracing transparency. If you don’t want to be flooded with emails and phone calls from concerned customers during scheduled downtime, you must give public status pages a thought.

App RePlatforming from Windows to Linux using CloudHedge

Are you fed up with constant system upgrades, virus attacks, and the cost burden of Windows licenses? Wouldn’t it be better if the platform had endless support? Then re-platforming the application from Windows to Linux is the better option because the operating system matters while doing the application development. App Replatforming is a complex process and CloudHedge helps customers to automate the modernization from Windows to Linux within days.

Go for systems operators, part 1: a brief history of Go

For Sensu Software Engineer Eric Chlebek, the Go programming language is a core part of his day-to-day, and building a monitoring tool has given him unique insight into the world of operations and what operators are looking for in a monitoring solution. In this series, he shares his learnings about Go as it relates to and benefits IT operators.

Analytic Workloads from BI to AI with VMware Tanzu Greenplum

VMware Tanzu Greenplum is a massively parallel processing (MPP) data platform based on the open source Greenplum Database project. It’s designed to run the full gamut of analytical workloads, from BI to AI. Because enterprise data lives and grows throughout an organization, it is suboptimal to copy large data sets between different systems as they aren’t able to perform fast enough, scale high enough, or offer the right features.