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Did You Survive This Week's Microsoft Teams Outage?

Though rare, Microsoft Teams outages can impact the productivity of your entire organization. For IT teams, staying one step ahead of an outage has never been more critical. From the time an outage begins productivity can plummet and IT starts to scramble in the dark to identify who, where and what is impacted and why. Below we unpack this week’s outage and outline the difference that deep Microsoft Teams monitoring can make.

Unified Observability is the Solution IT Has Been Waiting For

IT teams have been relying on observability tools to (theoretically) provide intelligence and insights into operating conditions within an organization’s digital infrastructure for years. But most of these tools have come with significant shortcomings that leave IT teams wanting more.

Grafana Labs founders on the future of observability and how to scale an open source company

“Overwhelming.” It was the only word Grafana Labs CEO and Co-founder Raj Dutt could use to describe how it felt to look out at the sea of more than 600 Grafanistas gathered together in Whistler, British Columbia, for the first company-wide employee event in two years.

Understanding the Performance Impact of Generated JavaScript

In the modern web, the JavaScript you write is often down-compiled using a compiler like Babel to make sure your JavaScript is compatible with older browsers or environments. In addition, if you are using TypeScript (like the Sentry SDK’s do) or something similar, you’ll have to transpile your TypeScript to JavaScript.

Top 8 Database Version Control Tools

Many DevOps teams struggle to achieve consistent builds and releases due to ineffective collaboration and communication strategies. Over 71% of software teams today are working remotely from global locations, according to a survey by Perforce and DevOps.com. Interestingly, this consistency challenge can be easily solved by a simple approach – database version control.

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10 Ways To Increase Operational Excellence Across Your Workforce

Achieving operational excellence will ensure your business is firing on all cylinders. This is the point at which everything just falls into place and works seamlessly. If you do not yet have a clear path toward operational excellence, this guide will offer a few practical ways for you to unleash the potential of your organization. But first, let's break down operational excellence.

U.S. Enterprises Committing to IoT With Long-Term Plans

U.S. enterprises investing in the Internet of Things (IoT) increasingly are starting out with long-term strategies instead of just discrete proofs of concept, according to a new research report published today by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm. The 2022 ISG Provider Lens™ Internet of Things — Services and Solutions report for the U.S. finds a growing number of U.S.

Microsoft Teams Down, July 20th, 2022

Microsoft’s unified communication and collaboration tool Teams suffered an hours-long outage on July 20, 2022 — affecting thousands of users globally. Exoprise sensors successfully detected Teams outage at least 30 mins before Microsoft officially confirmed the outage on its MSFT365status Twitter account. Below is what users saw when trying to access the Teams app or leverage any of its features.

IPv4 vs IPv6 - What are the Differences?

An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a numerical label which is used for addressing he location and identification of the network interface for the devices connected to the computer network. The most used and popular IP version is IPv4 which uses 32-bit for IP addresses. Since the IPv4 became popular and the IPv4 addresses are getting depleted, Ipv6 is now used which uses 128-bit for the IP addresses.

How to gain Kubernetes visibility in just a few clicks

Enterprises are increasingly adopting Kubernetes for the value that it brings to their organizations, from IT cost savings to improved time to market for application development. But with this shift comes a fundamental challenge: how to gain comprehensive visibility into your Kubernetes applications, when most existing monitoring tools are hard to scale or provide little or no visibility into Kubernetes? This challenge stems from two unique characteristics of Kubernetes. One, it is ephemeral.