In today’s digital landscape, relying on multiple services is inevitable, as is the occurrence of outages. According to Trilio, over 80% of organizations have experienced an outage in the past three years. Even if your services avoid incidents, scheduled maintenance downtime is unavoidable. Given the heavy dependence on third-party services, monitoring the status of cloud services is crucial.

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, IT teams grapple with the complexities of managing hybrid environments, where on-premises infrastructure coexists with cloud-based services. A report by 451 Research highlights the prevalence of this challenge, revealing that over 60% of organizations operate in hybrid environments. Yet, many struggle to manage the intricacies of this architecture effectively.

Dark networks have provided a measure of security to supply-chain operations for a couple of decades. These networks are closed to the outside world, only accessible via the connections between enterprise systems – think warehouse management, enterprise resource planning, etc. – and the rugged mobile devices carried by workers within these environments. And, everything is managed by on-premises device management products that never connect beyond the business’s facilities.

Enhancing security and providing flexible access control has always been part of our core mission at Grafana. In line with those efforts, we made service accounts generally available in Grafana 9.1. Service accounts are essentially machines simulating Grafana users, and they are used to run automated workloads — for example, counting the number of data sources in Grafana every day or provisioning alerts using Terraform.

Virtana is excited to announce Three groundbreaking advancements that empower IT leaders to streamline infrastructure monitoring and observability.

Data storage has come a long way. It’s impossible to imagine having to search racks of tape reels for specific datasets, and the same is happening for archival storage. This type of storage is very low cost, but the tradeoff is the data isn’t readily available, often requiring 24 hours or more to convert, thaw, and be in a usable format. But what if you could have your cake and eat it, too? Low-cost archival storage AND instant access to your data?

As networks continue to grow in complexity, investing in robust IP Address Management (IPAM) will help organizations manage their IP resources more effectively, minimizing risks and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. If that’s where your organization is heading, this article aims to provide IT professionals and network administrators with a comprehensive understanding of IPAM, its relevance, and how to implement it effectively within their network infrastructure. Let 's dig in.