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VDI Stack Monitoring with Goliath Performance Monitor

Quite often I run projects at existing VMware customers that are building a new Digital Workspace. And quite often, that Digital Workspace contains a VDI. Especially when a customer is already using VMware technology in their data center, vRealize Operations (vROps) is used to monitor the environment. Although vROps is a great solution, it’s not really sufficient to monitor the desktop side of things.

Continuous Delivery with Jenkins and Rollbar

Continuous delivery (CD) helps reduce the cost, time and risk of delivering changes by allowing for fast incremental updates to applications in production. However, it’s essential to monitor your application after each deployment. You need to be notified immediately if something is wrong or users are having a poor experience. Rollbar is a leading solution for error monitoring in the software development lifecycle. It alerts you when new errors occur after a deployment.

You've Been Accepted: PagerDuty University

Last year at PagerDuty Summit 2018, we officially launched PagerDuty University (PDU), a training program that provides hands-on classroom training to current and prospective customers so they can get the most out of the PagerDuty platform. Since its debut, PDU has taught hundreds of learners how they can optimize their instances to minimize downtime and improve responders’ quality of on-call life, in addition to providing thought leadership best practices to customers around the globe.

Why does CUBIC take us back to TCP congestion control?

TCP congestion control is a fundamental part of this protocol and over the years has undergone a process of constant improvement through the generation of different versions, such as TCP Tahoe, Reno, Vegas, and so on. The case of the TCP CUBIC version, which has been the default congestion control applied by Linux/Unix systems.

Assessing the Per-Minute Cost of an Outage for YOUR Company

Software vendors and analysts love to rattle off scary numbers about how many thousands of dollars per minute or hour an infrastructure outage will cost the typical company. Those numbers can be scary indeed; for example, Gartner quotes $5,400 per minute as the cost borne by a medium to large-sized retailer. Your company, however, is most likely not identical to the “typical” company on which the numbers are based.

10 best Web Application Testing Tools in 2019

These days having a website isn’t enough to keep visitors happy and coming back for more. No, you need a website that is secure, loads quickly, and is free of any bugs. Of course, the only way to ensure this is to test your website on a regular basis. If this is not a task that you want to outsource, there is no need to worry. There are a number of web application testing tools that can help you out.

Automated Application Assessment using CloudHedge Discover

For adoption of cloud, for enterprises, there are tools which enable movement of VMs or hosts to the cloud. However, to seek the benefits of cloud, enterprises or startups need to focus on applications and not the entire infra over which the application resides. To ensure applications work post-migration, they need to be assessed on multiple parameters.

July 2019 Update: Alert Opt-In and Out, Apps Section and Getting Started

July 2019 Update introduces the option to opt-out for certain categories as well as some enhancements in the Web portal. You can now opt-in/out of certain categories under Settings -> Services & Systems. This works on a per-user basis and is useful when you do not want to receive certain alerts but your team members still need to get them. Another scenario is to listen in, meaning you see what is going on but all notifications can be muted.