Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

2020 has seen a real acceleration in the adoption of new digital business models. At Capacity Europe last week, PCCW Global’s VP of Digital Innovation Marketing, Neil Templeton, took to the virtual stage to explain how network automation is helping businesses embrace digital transformation. “Since March and the onset of COVID 19, we’ve seen an accelerated pace of change with businesses and their move to digital transformation.

In the Information Age, data is currency. Controlling the flow of information and more importantly, protecting it has increasingly become a focal point for companies who want to remain competitive in modern markets. Improving data efficiency, integrity, and security is often how companies separate themselves from their peers. We present two of the most common methods for data transfers: FTP and SFTP.

The age of rendering most of a web page’s contents on the server and then delivering it as a colossal HTML file is fading into the past. Modern web frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue push towards creating components instead—individual elements on the page that fetch their data in the background and poll for asynchronous updates—which can be reused across your site.

Azure storage has provided companies with a way to store almost limitless amount of data. But just like kids in a candy store this can get out of hand, and expensive. Being able to store as much data as you want is great, however it is something that can grow to a point where you are spending more on storage than you actually need.

StatsD is among the most popular monitoring solutions used to instrument code with the help of custom metrics. It has become very popular over the course of the last few years and emerged as the industry standard for open source inside-the-app monitoring. It has a host of advantageous features that makes it perfect for application performance measurements.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is playing an increasingly pivotal role in supporting hybrid-cloud, DevOps environments, where Dev teams need to release updates fast and Ops need to avoid errors and failures in production. Powered by integrations to monitoring, orchestration, provisioning and ITSM tools, Interlink’s SRE solution brings improved understanding of where threats to the health of your IT services might lurk within DevOps workflows.

The biggest challenge in this regard is that a lot of the infrastructure comes from different manufacturers. While these manufacturers provide solid solutions for monitoring their hardware, it can be very difficult to oversee the monitoring of all hardware. A hardware monitoring software with an integrated console can monitor all the hardware in the server ecosystem. Hardware monitoring should be an integral part of managing a server and infrastructure.

A few weeks ago, my good friend Josh Cook wrote a blog post for Power Automate about getting the error message when implementing the try/catch pattern with a Flow. We discussed if this could be used with Logic Apps, and Josh confirmed that it could, even though the Logic App documentation doesn’t cover it very well. Josh’s original Flow post is- Grabbing an error message from a failed run.