Over-the-air (OTA) updates are software updates delivered to and installed on your devices, without you having to plug them in. This guide explains what OTA updates are, the OTA update process and how it works, and how they benefit you. It also explains the role and importance of OTA updates in IT.

Firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updates are the technology that delivers and installs firmware updates wirelessly to devices. This article explains firmware, FOTA updates, what they do and how they work, as well as the benefits and challenges they bring to IT teams.

High availability is frequently discussed but often misunderstood—especially when dealing with hybrid cloud and mainframe environments. Ensuring high availability in MQ monitoring across these environments requires a comprehensive strategy, careful planning, and sometimes, a bit of trial and error. Below are key strategies to ensure that MQ monitoring is always reliable, no matter where systems are running.

Code, deploy, repeat. As a developer, your days are a whirlwind of Git commits, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines. In the rush to ship new features and hit those sprint goals, it's easy to overlook the less glamorous aspects of software maintenance. But one often-neglected practice could be the difference between a stable, secure system and a compromised system. Enter patch management, a key DevOps tool in your arsenal to safeguard your systems.

On 5th July 2024 the centre-left Labour party took to power in Britain, promising reform to the National Health Service (NHS). New Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, voiced 'an NHS fit for the future'. His manifesto? To cut waiting times, invest in new equipment and services, recruit extra staff and decentralise healthcare provision. Bold ambitions that come at a substantial financial cost. The headlines state funding will be found through a crackdown on tax evasion.

Embracing the cloud is crucial for organizations seeking flexible ways to store and manage applications and complex data without being tied to a local device and single location.

With our latest enablements, you can use ExpressRoute Metro and Megaport to reduce downtime, improve latency, and protect your bottom line. Downtime. Sunken costs. Missed deadlines. Compromised data. Poor latency. All of these problems have one thing in common (besides the fact that they strike fear in the hearts of network architects) – they’re consequences of a network with poor resiliency.

Splunk and Dynatrace are popular monitoring tools widely used by businesses for tracking and monitoring data. Dynatrace is different from Splunk as it provides full-stack observability with AI-driven root cause analysis for applications, infrastructure, and user experience, while Splunk focuses primarily on log management and data analysis. Splunk can also be used for monitoring, including infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, server monitoring, and continuous monitoring.

How to identify root spans in OpenTelemetry Collector using filter and transform processors.

Master Prometheus remote write optimization. Learn queue tuning, cardinality management, and relabeling strategies to scale your monitoring infrastructure efficiently.