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It’s time for another publication of What’s New in Sysdig in 2022! I’m in charge of the “What’s new in Sysdig” blog for the month of July! Hello, I’m Tom Linkin, a Sr. Solutions Engineer based in the Poconos up in Pennsylvania. I joined the incredible group of people at Sysdig nine months ago and have been helping support sales in the greater NYC region ever since.

Sysadmins, short for system administrators, serve as a crucial subset of IT engineers and support staff and are often under-appreciated. Sysadmins are the lynchpins that provide continuity, performance, and security to the systems that connect every corner of the world. When COVID-19 scattered large workforces in offices across small home office networks, organizations relied on their sysadmins more than ever before to maintain work processes.

Modern businesses require increasingly complicated tech stacks to keep their teams up and running. What’s more, as businesses try to stay on top of the latest advancements, they wind up with interconnected layers of apps, hardware, and systems that become more and more interdependent on one another. Often, mission-critical technology ends up dependent on various connections, services, and infrastructure components.

IT services are a critical backbone to the operations and functioning of most every business and organization. As more and more IT departments have embraced the need for good governance, this has driven greater transparency. From the perspective of IT service management, this has manifested itself as much greater openness when communicating about IT service availability.

Amazon indeed does have everything from A to Z. Whether it's new underwear, cat food, those birthday candles that restart after you blow them out, or cloud storage, Amazon has you covered. Sure, the company (and its CEO) are far from ethical, but at the end of the day, Amazon products and services are affordable, reliable, and highly accessible. Like with the Amazon store, finding the cloud service you're looking for may get a little confusing.

Logz.io recently obtained the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency for our Cloud SIEM. We are thrilled to support the re-launch of the AWS Security Competency, as clearly the only way to combat today’s cybersecurity challenges is to modernize your analytics platform to respond to today’s evolving threat landscape.

GitHub is one of the most popular source control platforms available. It relies on Git concepts, and millions of developers use it. GitHub Actions embrace all aspects of what source control needs, such as branching, pull requests, feature flags, and versioning. It also integrates nicely into third-party continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines or deployment tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, and Octopus Deploy.

Nick Borgwardt, director of IT workflow at ServiceNow, co-authored this blog. In our personal lives, it’s easy to get the information and products we need with just a few clicks. Thanks to modern consumer websites and apps, making service requests and ordering products is simple, convenient and, often, automatic. Why shouldn’t our professional lives be just as effortless?

SIP trunking is a great way to improve your business’s communication system. It is cost effective and scalable, and it offers many features that traditional systems do not. In this article, we’ll give you a quick introduction to SIP trunking, how it can benefit your business and how to easily monitor it when linked to Microsoft Teams.

The ITIL 4 Foundation Edition introduced the service value chain in 2019, as an operating model to facilitate value realization. We’ve first talked about the topic on our Definitive Guide on ITIL, but it’s time to expand on the concept to understand: So, make sure to keep reading – we’ve thrown some useful examples on how the service value chain works!