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SLOs and Customer Experience: Uniting Engineering Excellence with Customer Satisfaction

In the contemporary landscape of fast paced IT and Digital services, where every click, tap, or swipe represents a potential interaction with a customer, the importance of optimizing the customer experience cannot be overstated. Service Level Objectives (SLOs) stand at the intersection of engineering excellence and customer satisfaction, serving as the guiding principles that drive the delivery of exceptional digital experiences.

Modernize as You Migrate Series: 05 - Discovering Your Servers with Ease Using Nmap to Fill Gaps

This episode discusses using Nmap for network-based discovery to fill server inventory gaps in data centers. The integration with Tidal Accelerator allows for quick scans and discovery of servers and devices, providing peace of mind for data center closure and migration programs.

Where's the money? The ROI of test data management

You may have heard of test data management (TDM). It’s part of the software delivery process – some would say a crucial part, involving the creation, management, and maintenance of environments for software development and testing. By provisioning fresh, production-like data, it allows developers to test their proposed changes early, thoroughly, and repeatedly with the right test data, when they need it and where they need it.

Getting Started with Azure IoT Edge on Ubuntu Core

Earlier this month/week, we announced that you can now benefit from the combined power of Ubuntu Core and Azure IoT Edge to bring the computation, storage, and AI capabilities of the cloud closer to the edge of the network. Azure IoT Edge is a device-focused runtime that enables you to deploy, run, and monitor containerised Linux workloads. Ubuntu Core is a version of Ubuntu that has been specially optimised for IoT and embedded systems.

Decoding SaaS Customer Cost: A Guide to Calculating Cost per Customer in Azure

In the SaaS era, especially in the B2B segment, the business’s profitability will vary from customer to customer. It is usual to observe that there would be a few “expensive customers” who use the platform heavily, which could also mean they are profitable customers. But we cannot take plain guesses! As a business, ensuring that the revenue we receive from each customer is appropriate for what it costs us to deliver the value is significant.