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Kubernetes vs Docker: How to Choose

If you’re thinking about using containers to manage an application, there are a lot of options for technologies to use. It can be difficult to even know where to begin to make a decision. One common question is whether someone should use Docker vs Kubernetes for managing their application containers. This is a misleading question. In truth, Docker and Kubernetes aren’t competing technologies. There’s no need for them to face off.

User Story: Epic Hospital Reduces Logon Times by 80%

The below screen shots were provided by a large non-profit healthcare organization that includes 4 acute care hospitals, over 20 clinics and 5,000 Citrix users. The Healthcare IT team received reports from clinicians about slow logon times. This document describes how the Citrix engineer used Goliath Performance Monitor to pinpoint and troubleshoot the “Citrix is Slow” complaint and implement a fix action that permanently resolved the issue while reducing logon times by more than 80%.

Distributed Machine Learning With PySpark

Spark is known as a fast general-purpose cluster-computing framework for processing big data. In this post, we’re going to cover how Spark works under the hood and the things you need to know to be able to effectively perform distributing machine learning using PySpark. The post assumes basic familiarity with Python and the concepts of machine learning like regression, gradient descent, etc.

Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Licensing

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, also called NPM, is a comprehensive network monitoring tool that displays real-time and historical health, availability, and performance statistics from SNMP-, API-, or WMI-enabled devices, such as routers, switches, firewalls, and servers. NPM is licensed based on the largest number of monitored elements - nodes, interfaces, or volumes - so you can choose the license size that best fits your environment and monitoring needs.