In today’s dynamic and complex IT landscapes, maintaining visibility into application topologies is crucial for ensuring optimal performance, troubleshooting issues, and delivering exceptional end-user experiences. Did you know that 73% of IT leaders report increased difficulty in managing application performance due to rising complexity?

When evaluating the differences between circuit switching vs packet switching, consider the advantages of each type of network configuration and their respective strengths. Both configurations have advantages, depending on your needs.

In this article, we will discuss in depth everything you need to know about HIPAA Compliance. HIPAA was introduced with two main objectives: to protect the individuals’ health information while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide high-quality health care and to protect the public’s health and well-being.

In today's digital landscape, monitoring IT systems and infrastructure is crucial for ensuring operational efficiency and maintaining business continuity. Australian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) understand the importance of monitoring but often struggle to fully leverage its capabilities. One common challenge is the siloed nature of IT operations, where different components of the IT ecosystem operate independently, leading to fragmented visibility and disjointed management.

MSPs working in the cloud are pretty popular these days. About 73% of businesses using cloud-based MSP solutions plan to increase their usage. For MSPs, that’s both good and bad news. The good news is that more organizations are using MSPs to scale their business profitably. The bad news? It also means tracking several customers at once and managing their accounts. MSPs need a cloud management solution to handle multi-cloud setups.

Monitoring tools are great at letting you know when something is broken and the overall impact. We should know, we make an error monitoring tool. Observability tools are good for well, observing. But here’s the thing, you (we) don’t observe code. We (you) push code. So what the collective “we” need is a tool that makes it easy to ship, improve, and maintain reliable and performant code.

For better or worse, most companies—including their execs and developers—see SREs as superheroes who’ll save them from the evils of downtime and service degradation with their boundless superpowers. SREs are expected to constantly perform dangerous stunts like production debugging or communicating highly technical issues to angry VPs. They must also be able to manage infrastructure, networks, databases, pipelines, operating systems and much more.

I’ve been working with artificial intelligence (AI) for a long time, so I’m always curious to hear what new engineers think about its potential impact on our lives and the world at large. That’s why I recently sat down with Saliha Demir on our podcast.

Like DevOps, FinOps is a portmanteau word (a word made by combining two others) and a portmanteau concept. Where DevOps is the joining of development and operations, FinOps is the joining of operations and finance. Like DevOps, FinOps has arisen from a frustration with siloed business capacities, and again like DevOps, FinOps is a part cultural, part tool-driven practice.

The cloud computing space is constantly evolving — a fact that can sometimes set the stage for inconsistencies and confusion around both industry terminology and best practices. Cloud agnostic is one of those confusing terms, as is cloud native. But with the number of cloud agnostic and cloud native applications growing, it’s important to set the record straight.