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MicroStack: The most straightforward OpenStack ever

MicroStack provides a single or multi-node OpenStack deployment which can run directly on your workstation. Although made for developers to prototype and test, it is also suitable for edge, IoT, and appliances. MicroStack is an OpenStack in a snap which means that all OpenStack services and supporting libraries are packaged together in a single package which can be easily installed, upgraded or removed. MicroStack includes all key OpenStack components: Keystone, Nova, Neutron, Glance, and Cinder.

Use Microsoft Teams as Your Phone System: How to Get Started

Join Dr. E. Brent Kelly, Principal analyst at KelCor & Greg Zweig, Director of Solutions marketing for Ribbon as they discuss the critical thinking required to plan a successful transition to Teams Phone System. Brent regularly provides strategy and counsel to CIOs, CTOs, and technology buyers. More importantly, Dr. Kelly is not afraid to get his hands dirty, having deployed Teams Phone Systems himself; he’ll speak from firsthand experience!

Streamline incident management with BigPanda's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

BigPanda is a domain-agnostic AIOps platform that helps organizations detect and resolve incidents in their complex IT environments. By unifying and correlating data from monitoring, change, and topology tools, BigPanda enables teams to quickly pinpoint the root cause of issues and prevent costly outages.

The More You Monitor: Using AIOps for Monitoring

By now you most likely have a basic understanding of what AIOps is and how ITOps, DevOps and SRE teams can use AIOps to help reduce outages, slowdowns and overall MTTR, but do you know how AIOps can be used specifically for monitoring? In this episode of The More You Monitor Lead Sales Engineer, Dondy Aponte, lays out how AIOps for monitoring can help to process large volumes of data to keep you informed and ahead of any issues that may arise. With dynamic thresholds, root cause analysis, automated anomaly detection and predictive forecasting you'll be equipped with the tools to reduce manual efforts and keep your infrastructures and systems online and performing.

How Lowe's meets customer demand with Google SRE practices

At Lowe’s, we’ve made significant progress in our multiyear technology transformation. To modernize our systems and build new capabilities for our customers and associates, we leverage Google’s SRE framework and Google Cloud, which helps us meet their needs faster and more effectively. With these efforts, we’ve been able to go from one release every two weeks to 20+ releases daily—about 20X more releases per month.

Ribbon IP and Optical Solutions for Research and Education Networks (RENs)

National and regional research and education networks are strategic assets that bolster economic competitiveness and are also a showcase of high tech excellence. Ribbon has a record of accomplishment worldwide implementing RENs, from national to regional RENs, as well as smaller university networks. Ribbon’s REN solution encompasses a flexible high bandwidth optical backbone, IP connectivity, management and automation, as well as value-added communications services.

The startup founders' guide to software delivery

Software delivery on a team of 2 people is vastly different from software delivery on a team of 200. Over the growth of a startup, processes and tool choices will evolve naturally - but either optimizing too early or letting them evolve without a picture of where you’re headed can cost you in time and agility later. That’s why I want to talk to you about how to evolve your delivery process with purpose.