Jim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape, once said “If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” While Jim may have said this in jest, the exponential boom in data collection indicates that we increasingly prefer to rely on facts rather than conjecture when making business decisions. More data yields greater insights about customer preferences and experiences, internal processes, and security vulnerabilities — just to name a few.

Managing an application’s performance, and specifically keeping it in good condition, is one of the hardest challenges in software development. That’s true for virtually any programming language and platform. Java is no exception to this rule. But beyond that, Java also presents some unique challenges of its own.

Plagiarism remains a big issue online to this day. Some copy from Wikipedia, while others may steal your own work. In addition to that, the content writers you hire may accidentally or intentionally plagiarize their articles. This is why checking for duplicate text is so important, and here are twenty best duplicate content checkers to use in 2019.

A few months ago we published a price comparison blog which compared every available website monitoring service on price. In this post, we ignore price completely and provide an in-depth feature comparison between Pro and Free services. This post is intended to compliment our Plans page by providing a detailed comparison between Pro and Free features...

Lumigo, the serverless monitoring and troubleshooting platform, today announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Competency status. The AWS DevOps Competency status indicates that Lumigo has demonstrated its ability to provide specialized technology that has directly contributed towards its customers’ success. To receive the designation, APN Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS.

In this release 739 several integrations have been carried out, ranging from RedisDB monitoring, integration with OTRS or interconnectivity between Pandora FMS and Integria IMS, one of the products of Pandora FMS suite. In addition, the HA environment has been improved with new features.

At Honeycomb, we’re big fans of AWS Spot Instances. During a recent bill reduction exercise, we found significant savings in running our API service on Spot, and now look to use it wherever we can. Not all services fit the mold for Spot, though.

Last month, the Digital Enterprise Journal (DEJ) recognized OpsRamp as a Top 20 Vendor for enabling best- performing organizations in managing IT operations. DEJ's recent report features OpsRamp in the Top 20 Vendors for Enabling Best Performing Organizations. Meanwhile, the field marketing team controlled the chaos at several industry events like IDG Chicago, ConnecTech Houston and CIO Summit by Sapphire Ventures.

In 2018, we released the inaugural Managing Network Vendor Diversity Report, where we discovered that MSPs face a serious challenge: There’s high vendor diversity in the network hardware they operate. In the short year since then, the managed services industry has experienced a lot of change: tech trends are evolving, new products are being released, and client expectations are growing. So what was true in 2018 might not be any longer.