As the reliance on cloud services like Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Azure Active Directory (AD) continues to soar, the need for robust monitoring tools has become critical. Ensuring optimal performance and availability of Azure services is vital for organizations shifting towards Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for full-time or disaster recovery use.

When a critical system goes down, every minute counts. Amid the chaos, it's easy to overlook a crucial aspect of Incident Management: keeping stakeholders informed. However, neglecting stakeholder communication can have disastrous consequences, including misinformation, delayed decisions, and frustration. Effective stakeholder communication is essential for ensuring a coordinated, efficient, and transparent response to incidents.

Fractional executives are changing how businesses operate by providing high-level expertise on a flexible, part-time basis. This approach allows companies to access seasoned professionals without the financial burden of full-time employment. Are you: If so, you’re in the right place.

Healthchecks.io launched in July 2015, which means this year we turn 9. Time flies! Previous status updates.

Organizations that run Kubernetes clusters in cloud native environments should do so in a way that’s both operationally efficient and cost effective. However, many organizations don’t prioritize cost optimization until it becomes a pressing need. This may be due to a directive from senior leadership, a significant scale-up or migration of Kubernetes clusters, or an unexpected surge in the cloud bill.

In today’s digital landscape, productivity tools are crucial for businesses and individuals alike. Two names that often come up in conversations about office suites are Microsoft 365 and Office 365. But what exactly are these tools, and how do they differ? Understanding the distinctions between Microsoft 365 and Office 365 can help you choose the best solution for your needs.

It’s one of my strongly held beliefs that errors are constructed, not discovered. However we frame an incident’s causes, contributing factors, and context ends up influencing the shape of the corrective items (if any) that get created. I’ll cover these ideas by using our June 3rd incident where a database migration caused a large outage by locking up a shared database and making it run out of connections.

After the blockbuster announcement of Chat-GPT in fall of 2022, the SEO and copywriting worlds were thrown into chaos. With AI able to generate blocks of mostly solid content (mostly) in seconds, what would this mean for the future of SEO – where for years copywriters have commanded triple digit hourly wages to generate content meant to game Google search results?

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