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Cloud storage for enterprises

Any data-centric organisation faces the prospect of data growth at some point in their existence; it is estimated that more than 2,500 Petabytes (PB) of new data is created every day. While only a few organisations will ever have to deal with that kind of scale, it is important to plan ahead for your own organisation’s growth. Legacy appliance-based storage systems where hardware and software are closely coupled can be expensive to maintain, expand, and difficult to operate.

Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur Mascot Animation

Just as the prophecy foretold, the Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur has been revealed! Few creatures from mythology have captured the imagination of mankind quite like the legendary Minotaur. The word Mantic is used to describe one’s ability to prophesy or reach into the future. Our lead designer, Marcus Haslam, pulled inspiration from the ancient past when creating our iconic Minotaur Mascot and new official wallpapers.

Prometheus vs. Datadog

Before we do a detailed dive into what Prometheus and Datadog are, let's look at the key comparison points. Both Prometheus and Datadog are monitoring tools, but Prometheus is open source and Datadog is proprietary. Prometheus is the de facto tool for monitoring time-series for Kubernetes, and Datadog is an all-around APM, logs, time-series, and tracing tool.

How To Monitor AWS EC2 With MetricFire

AWS EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) has revolutionized the way businesses operate in the cloud. With its scalable and flexible infrastructure, EC2 allows organizations to easily deploy virtual servers and manage their computing resources efficiently. However, as your EC2 environment grows, monitoring becomes crucial to ensure optimal performance, security, and cost optimization. One powerful solution for monitoring AWS EC2 is Hosted Graphite by MetricFire, a comprehensive graphing and monitoring service.

Azure: The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft's Cloud Computing Platform

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate and manage their data. With the vast amounts of information being generated daily, traditional on-premises infrastructure struggles to keep up with the demands of scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness. This is where Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform, comes into play. Azure provides a comprehensive set of tools and services that enable organizations to build, deploy, and manage applications and services on a global scale.

How to Monitor Multi-layer Huawei Switch with MetricFire

Monitoring your network infrastructure plays a pivotal role in identifying potential bottlenecks, optimizing performance, and ensuring seamless operations. By implementing a comprehensive monitoring solution like MetricFire, you gain access to a wide range of features and functionalities designed to simplify the process of monitoring and managing your Huawei switches.

Introduction to MLFlow

MLFlow is an open source platform used for managing machine learning workflows. It is a crucial component of the open source MLOps ecosystem, having passed 10 million monthly downloads at the end of 2022. It has four main components that ensure experiment tracking, model registry, model deployment and code packaging. Join our webinar to learn more about MLFlow During this webinar, Andreea Munteanu will discuss MLFlow and Charmed MLFlow, Canonical’s distribution of the open source platform.

Intro to Git Integration for Jira: See development activity across all of your issues

Git Integration for Jira is the easiest way to improve development visibility in Jira and keep your teams in sync. View Git commits, branches, tags, and pull request within issues or across projects, epics, sprints, and more. It's the only Jira app that lets you view development activity across multiple issues at a time - saving you time, helping you spot trends, and identify work that's at risk. Integrate with any Git repository, self hosted or in the cloud, including GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and more.

What Is AWS EMR? Here's Everything You Need To Know

According to Statista, the mass volume of data created, stored, copied, and consumed in 2020 was over 64 zettabytes (ZB), or about 64 trillion gigabytes (GB). This is expected to rise to 181 ZB by the year 2025. A large portion of this data is likely to be significant to your business. It can provide you with new insights that help you improve your product, communicate with consumers, and perform risk analysis. However, you’ll need the right tools to extract, sort, process, and analyze it.