Colocation data centers let you host your IT infrastructure in a managed, secure, offsite environment — an important consideration for organizations that want to ensure high availability, data security, and resiliency. This guide explains what colocation data centers are, the key features and benefits of colocation, and their role in modern IT infrastructure management (especially in the cloud era).

Reasons why you MUST switch to IT asset management software for asset tracking.

Alert storms occur when your monitoring platform generates excessive alerts simultaneously or in succession. Although numerous factors can cause an alert storm, microservices architectures are uniquely susceptible to them due to multiple service dependencies, potential failure points, and upstream and downstream service relationships.

If you’ve been reading my blogs for the past two years, you know that the automotive industry is probably the most innovative one today. As a matter of fact, some of the biggest company valuations revolve around electric vehicles (EVs), autonomous driving (AD) and artificial intelligence (AI). As with any revolution, this one comes with its set of challenges.

The old saying that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” has never been truer for IT teams. Many analysts say proactive IT management is long overdue, and in domains such as cybersecurity and e-commerce, the push is on to detect and stop potential issues early instead of troubleshooting after the fact. So why are so many IT groups stuck in reactive mode when it comes to managing business-critical communication and collaboration applications like Microsoft Teams?

AWS ALB was developed to simplify the management of modern web traffic while enhancing application scalability, security, and performance. And like any other AWS service, understanding AWS ALB pricing is essential for managing cloud costs effectively. This guide offers a comprehensive overview of AWS ALB, detailing its key use cases and pricing structure.

It might be vacation season, but we’ve been hard at work! We’re thrilled to announce improvements to our new interface, added features and optimizations, and the release of our brand-new knowledge hub.

In today’s complex software environments, ensuring that applications run smoothly and efficiently is more critical than ever. One of the key practices that developers and IT operations and DevOps professionals use to maintain the health and performance of their systems is application tracing. This blog post delves into application tracing, how it works, different types, and effective implementation.

Ever want to get some data into CFEngine? Have you heard about the def.json Augments file?1 Augments are JSON data files that allow you to define classes and variables very early during agent initialization, before policy. Augments are practical in a variety of ways. Perhaps most notably for overriding policy defaults. Let’s look at a simple example.