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Mobile devices have radically changed the way we work and collaborate. But along with the exponential growth in the use of smartphones and mobile apps has come a surge in vulnerabilities and exploits. The power of mobile communication allows work to be done anywhere, anytime, by employees who are accessing ever-higher volumes of data to do their jobs.

System monitoring can be viewed as being closely related to infrastructure monitoring, but there are differences between the two concepts, particularly with their scopes within the realm of IT monitoring. Infrastructure monitoring concentrates on monitoring the physical and virtual components of an IT environment, such as servers, networks, storage systems, and cloud services.

IT management software plays a critical role in ensuring operational efficiency for businesses and supporting remote workers. IT management encompasses a wide range of tools designed to support IT professionals, help organizations enhance the security of their IT infrastructure, and optimize the use of all hardware and software assets. IT management software also equips businesses with tools like regular patching and backups to strengthen the security and resilience of their IT infrastructure.

For DevOps and platform teams working with containers and Kubernetes, reducing downtime and improving security posture is crucial. A clear understanding of network topology, service interactions, and workload dependencies is required in cloud-native applications. This is essential for securing and optimizing the Kubernetes deployment and minimizing response time in the event of failure.

Ensuring smooth transitions during application upgrades are important. Maintaining system consistency and stability with a database upgrade is paramount. Databases are complex systems with numerous stored procedures, each intricately linked to critical functionalities. Changes to these procedures during an upgrade could potentially disrupt overall system performance and negatively impact thousands of customers.

We're excited to share the latest enhancements to the ilert incident management platform! We’d be delighted to receive your feedback on these new features, so feel free to message us at support@ilert.com. Additionally, you can always leave feature requests on our open roadmap.

Picture this: you’re working on a big project with tight deadlines, juggling multiple pull requests, and just when you think you’re getting ahead, you hit a merge conflict that throws everything into chaos. Your inbox is flooded with GitHub notifications, you’ve lost track of which issues are the most urgent, and the code review feedback is as clear as mud. Sound familiar? Well, you’re not alone.

We’ve had a fantastic month celebrating 20 years of Nexthink and taking time to reflect on the people, products, and innovations that have shaped the company. Today, Nexthink is a category creator, an industry defining brand reshaping how IT teams manage the digital workplace. But that wasn’t always the case. Let's take a moment to recap some of our favourite content from the month celebrating the last 20 years of Nexthink.

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, managing extensive document volumes in SharePoint Online is a challenging task for any organization. As businesses expand, there is an increasing demand for efficient, cost-effective storage solutions that provide space savings, ensure compliance, and offer easy access. Squirrel is a cutting-edge SaaS solution designed to automate the archiving process by moving documents from SharePoint Online to Azure Blob Storage.

Are you familiar with CFEngines special variables? Probably you are familiar with sys variables like sys.fqhost (the fully qualified host name) and sys.policy_hub (the IP address of the machine the host is bootstrapped to) but I want to highlight a few other special variables you may not be so familiar with.