Financial services companies enable a steady stream of intricate transactions—all of which are underpinned by an increasingly complex array of systems, services, and applications. Many forward-looking financial institutions have evolved to include multiple clouds, hyper-converged infrastructures, virtual machines, and containers to house massive quantities of transactional data and processes.

Have you ever wondered how internal teams in an organization stay on the same page? Operational Level Agreements (OLAs) are the essential tools that make it happen. Originating within organizations to streamline interactions and clarify responsibilities, OLAs are especially common in IT departments. They help tackle everyday challenges like miscommunication, overlapping duties, and inconsistent IT Service Management (ITSM).

Organizations exchange vast amounts of data daily, and their need for efficient and secure file transfer solutions has never been more critical. Managing the complexities inherent in data exchange—ensuring speed, security, and compliance—poses significant challenges for businesses of all sizes. Advanced file transfer technologies offer robust solutions to these challenges, enabling seamless and protected transmission of digital assets across diverse networks and systems.

DevOps is essential for engineering teams looking to enhance collaboration, speed up development cycles, and maintain high-quality software delivery. Building on our previous discussion of common DevOps mistakes startups make, let's move on to ten practical strategies small engineering teams can adopt to foster a robust DevOps culture.

We’re delighted to introduce a new, free tool for everyone: Catchpoint’s Live Internet Outage Map. The Live Internet Outage Map is a limited, free version of Catchpoint’s Internet Sonar capability publicly available to everyone, not just Catchpoint users. It shows outages from the last 24 hours and provides a sample of the thousands of services monitored in the full version of Internet Sonar.

In this blog, I wanted to take a deep-dive into our Notifications feature and explain some of the product design decisions we made. Notifications is one of the most frequently used features of SquaredUp. We designed this feature to be quick and easy to set up, with a primary focus on delivering timely notifications to the appropriate audience.

We’re excited to announce the general availability of dashboard variables in SquaredUp. With this new feature, dashboards you create are flexible and reusable. Instead of hardcoding specific objects within the tiles on a dashboard, you can use variables to create just one dashboard to be reused across all your objects of the same type – be it your pipelines, apps, or microservices. Viewers of the dashboard can then select which objects they are interested in on the fly.

Tool consolidation outcomes have driven some customers to drop Splunk and consolidate their log analytics use cases on Sumo Logic. Long-term Splunk customers with many dashboards, saved searches and monitors understandably want to retain a consistent experience for end users. As a result, a replacement strategy requires migration.