Happy New Year! Mattermost 5.7 includes a number of user experience improvements designed to increase team productivity. Try these new features by downloading Mattermost 5.7 today. Since it includes security updates, upgrading is recommended.

OnPage and ConnectWise has come a long way from when we first announced our integration 3 years ago. Today the integration supports the day to day workings of over 3000 MSPs with more and more being added to the number. Here at OnPage we love our MSP customers because they are an active bunch who work with us to create better solutions. Many of their suggestions have been incorporated in to our latest release of the OnPage + ConnectWise Manage integration. OnPage+ConnectWise 3.0 !!!

OpsRamp is proud to announce that we’ve joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). As cloud-native adoption within the enterprise grows at an accelerated pace and Kubernetes emerges as the leading orchestration platform for containerized applications, we’ve been actively developing new enhancements and features to support these innovative technologies.

OpsRamp, the service-centric AIOps platform for the modern enterprise, today announced its silver membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Today OpsRamp provides autodiscovery for Kubernetes and Docker hosts along with Kubernetes infrastructure monitoring for multi-cloud infrastructure (AKS, EKS, GKE) and on-prem environments. The CNCF partnership comes as the company is set to release new features for Kubernetes monitoring in a matter of weeks.

Kubernetes allows DevOps teams to deploy containerized applications faster and makes managing containers at scale significantly easier. Obtaining visibility into these containerized applications is key to maximizing application/service performance and proactively preventing downtime.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) is one of the most insidious types of digital attacks that can cause cloud outages. It is typically directed at a specific target, and if done competently, can bring an application or even all network traffic to its knees.

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is Google’s approach to service management where software engineers run production systems using a software engineering approach. It’s clear that Google is unique, and they usually need to tackle software bugs and errors in different and non-conventional ways. But having software engineers doing a job that is traditionally done by professionals with a systems administration background sounds impractical.

In part 1 of this series, we tried to outline what data retention is and why it is needed to overcome increasing requirements for various regulatory standards. As detailed, there are some clear guidelines for organizations to take what we called a “data retention approach for compliance”. In this follow up post, outline some specific technological and procedural challenges you might face as well as some practical guidelines and strategies to overcome them.