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Managing Vendor Incidents: Customer Impact That Isn't Your Fault

One of the first key tenets of cloud computing was that “you own your own availability”, the idea being that the public cloud providers were making infrastructure available to you, and your organization had to decide what to use and how to use it in order to meet your organization’s goals. The cloud providers have no knowledge of your applications or their KPIs.

The Best Cloud Data Management Tools to Manage Business or Enterprise Data

Cloud data management tools have become essential for businesses and enterprises looking to optimize their data storage, backup, and analytics. These tools help businesses handle growing data lakes or warehouses. In this blog, we’ll explore cloud data management tools, how they work, and why they are vital for modern businesses. We'll cover key functions such as data storage, backup and recovery, and integration and highlight the popular cloud management tools.

5 essential resilience tests for a successful cloud migration

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Migrating to the cloud usually means faster deployments and easier scalability, but it also means latency. Cloud applications communicate over distributed networks, and while these networks are fast, little bits of latency can quickly add up.

Cribl Search Provides an Audit Capability to Assess Your Snowflake Account

Only last month, Cribl added Snowflake to its growing list of accessible data stores it can search. Using Cribl Search, admins can now leverage Cribl’s search-in-place capability to query data located in Snowflake’s data warehouse. Boy, did we have the timing right? Today, Snowflake customers and other incident response teams are still determining the nexus of the incident.

How HighRadius Engineers Use CloudZero To Make Smart Choices

HighRadius is a FinTech company that specializes in using automation to make financial management easier. So naturally, RamKishore Middela, assistant vice president of cloud engineering at HighRadius, recognizes more easily than most the benefits of automating his company’s cloud cost management with CloudZero.

What is Multi-Cloud, and why should you care?

As companies embrace cloud-native architectures and scale their operations, ensuring business continuity and minimizing downtime become paramount; even brief outages can result in substantial revenue loss and reputational damage. In July 2023, a flaw in CrowdStrike's software update caused widespread disruption across various industries. The air travel sector was particularly hard hit, with over 3,300 flights cancelled globally. Major airlines like United, Delta, American Airlines, British Airway.

Announcing Lumigo's New Multiple Dashboards Functionality

In today’s complex cloud-native environments, observability is key to maintaining performance, reliability, and scalability. However, different teams often need to focus on different aspects of the system. Developers might be more interested in error rates and response times, while operations teams must monitor system health and resource utilization. Lumigo now supports multiple dashboards, so you can provide each team with the information they need precisely how they need it.