Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is the evolution of application performance monitoring (APM) and end user experience monitoring (EUEM) into a comprehensive tool that analyzes the efficacy of an enterprise’s applications and services. Essentially, DEM combines these functions and goes beyond both — all to ensure consistency across the customer experience.

As IT costs continue to balloon, many organizations are caught between the desire to scale and the pressure to cut costs. It’s an incredibly delicate balancing act leaders struggle to maintain: while 66% of companies in one study said they plan to increase their IT budgets, 84% were worried about a recession, while 63% struggled to secure IT talent. By spending on infrastructure, organizations are forced to spend less on innovation. But what if there is a way to have both?

IT operational challenges are an inherent part of managing modern technology infrastructures. From system downtime to data security concerns, these issues can significantly impact an organization’s efficiency and effectiveness. Addressing these challenges requires a strategic approach that balances immediate needs with long-term operational goals.

StatusGator is the world’s best status page aggregator: We aggregate the status of thousands of cloud services and hosted applications from their official status pages. But everyone knows official status pages are often behind and in those critical moments before the status page is updated, you might be thinking “Is it just me? Or is it really down?” StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals solves that by alerting you before providers even acknowledge the incident.

.NET 9 is releasing in mid-November 2024. Like every.NET version, this introduces several important features and enhancements aligning developers with an ever-changing development ecosystem. In this blog series, I will explore critical updates in different areas of.NET. For today's post, I'll present some improvements to Cryptography.

In today's digital age, organizations face a constant barrage of cyber threats, with unauthorized applications posing a significant risk to their security and operations. Traditional security measures are no longer sufficient to protect against the sophisticated attacks that target vulnerabilities within applications and endpoints.

Cloud adoption is growing rapidly, and businesses are increasingly using platforms like Azure to run their services. However, managing costs efficiently is crucial to prevent overspending. By tracking costs per department, you ensure that each team is accountable for its cloud spending, making optimization and budgeting more effective. In this article, we’ll explore how to track and allocate Azure costs per department, ensuring your organization optimizes its cloud budget.