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Upcoming Icinga Web feature: Rememberme

We always welcome feedback from you to make Icinga even better. Many Icinga users have expressed the opinion that they would like to have a rememberme checkbox on the login page of Icinga Web so that they don’t have to log in every time they visit Icinga Web We have worked on this new feature especially during the Home-Office and plan to release it in the next release of Icinga Web.

Tagging 101: Basics & How to Implement a Comprehensive AWS Tagging Strategy

As cloud environments grow and evolve more rapidly than ever, and with new cloud services emerging every day, achieving and maintaining a high level of organization across hundreds of resources and global teams can seem like a daunting task. However, it’s not impossible, and can be done through tagging. This post will cover the fundamentals of tags, as well as a comprehensive roadmap to developing a tagging strategy.

Making the Collection of Centralised S3 Logs into Splunk easy with Lambda and SQS

Got multiple AWS data sources in the same S3 bucket but struggle with efficient SNS notifications based on prefix wildcards? Well, struggle no more, we’ve got your back. Many of our customers have a centralised S3 Bucket for log collection for multiple sources and accounts. For example, all Config, CloudTrail and Access Log logs may be routed into one central bucket for an organisation.

Why the CEO Cares About Splunk

Evolving business themes come at us in waves. So far this millennium we have had The New Economy, The Cloud, and now Digital Transformation. Underpinning these themes are real, economically significant dynamics that drown out the bleating voices of pundits and cynics alike. The Internet is not a bubble, the cloud is not a fad, and digital transformation is, well, transformative. Let’s take a look at what that last one means for Financial Services.

Global Restart: CIOs Need to Simplify in the Face of Complexity

We have to get everyone back to work. The global restart of economies derailed by the coronavirus pandemic is challenging organizations across the board. And from one industry to the next, IT must be a central player in establishing a new normal. Organizations that had to entirely shut down facilities — retail stores, manufacturing plants, restaurants, theme parks — may particularly struggle to reestablish operations with new approaches that protect worker and customer health.

Searching Jira: Enhanced productivity with Elastic Workplace Search

Jira has long been a popular issue tracking tool for development teams, but its scope has broadened quite a bit over the years, and it has bloomed into a more well-rounded project management tool as well. It’s used widely by agile teams to plan, track, and release software, along with numerous other cloud (and traditional self-managed) productivity tools.

Five ways to achieve faster time to value with enterprise SaaS

The popular perception of software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing is beautifully simple: sign-up, login and start doing your work. Of course, this isn’t quite accurate; it all depends on the application, business needs and goals. Enterprise SaaS entails business requirements gathering, customizations, integrations, and training.

Continuous Intelligence for Atlassian tools and the DevSecOps Lifecycle (Part 1)

Implementing and operationalizing the best practices and capabilities of DevOps into an organization is a key predictor for increased customer satisfaction, organizational productivity and profitability. Doing so successfully can be a challenging endeavour. Implementing DevOps can be particularly difficult because it oftentimes requires technology changes, process changes and a drastic change in mindset.

People and processes behind "Ubuntu certified" devices

While searching for your next GNU/Linux enabled computer, you may have found that some vendors such as Dell, HP and Lenovo sell a selection of desktops and laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed. In fact, Ubuntu is certified on an ever-growing list of hardware. But what does it mean exactly for such a device to be “Ubuntu certified”, and how does this happen? Let’s find out.

5 Best Practices for Ensuring Performance of Your SaaS Business

From the time that SaaS businesses were an emerging trend in the internet space, to them becoming its omnipresent component, the virtual world has witnessed a massive transition in a very short span. The SaaS market is expected to rise to $220 billion by 2022 from $134 billion in 2018, at a CAGR of 13%. This growth is expected as SaaS resolves the scaling challenges for a business, considerably decreases the total cost of ownership, and takes away the hassles of managing local hardware.