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In 2005, I started my career as a UX designer. A few years in, I was fiercely passionate about the little things that made a piece of software friendly and usable. Before working on the designs, I wanted to understand how the product works and what it could potentially do for the customer. I felt it was a part of the process. But soon, I grew more interested in how products can help achieve business differentiation.

One of the things about Silicon Valley culture is the obsession around the technology that gets created and the idea of the engineer as the hero of the story. You see the same kind of thing with other professions — like with finance executives in New York, celebrities in Hollywood, or firefighters and police officers in different areas across the US.

When it comes to multi-cloud, it’s easy to assume that the biggest connectivity challenge facing network professionals would be connecting between different cloud providers. But actually moving data between different geographic instances of the same cloud platform is not as straightforward as you might think.

Some organizations use proactive maintenance strategies for keeping assets in good condition and some use reactive maintenance strategies and other organizations use both these practices. So how will you decide which type of maintenance strategy will work best for your organization that we will cover in this blog! Other than that, we will know the objective of maintenance management, what are the benefits of using reactive & proactive maintenance management. So, let us begin.

The pandemic has rapidly advanced the adoption of remote work. Perhaps unsurprisingly, studies have shown that many employees prefer the hybrid work model — it makes work more flexible and often more enjoyable. Despite some companies starting to return to the office full-time, many companies are adapting to meet their employees' changing expectations and have made hybrid work a permanent solution.

VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) aren’t new. They’ve been around for almost three decades and are used by practically every organization and individual who pays attention to data privacy. But the kind of benefit every user derives from a VPN may differ. While some may use it simply to protect their confidential data when browsing the internet, others may use it to escape data throttling. After all, a VPN can help you break the bandwidth barriers your ISP imposes on you.

As the world continues to face unparalleled uncertainties due to climate change, using energy efficiently is more important than ever. Time series data plays a critical role in helping organizations operate in a greener and more sustainable way. In Finland, EnerKey operates a platform that drives sustainability and energy management to unearth savings from consumption data.

Since 2013, Monitorama has been a community-driven conference, bringing together open source development and operations engineers to focus on pushing the boundaries of monitoring software and practices. It’s chock full of thought-provoking content in the conference talks. The casual atmosphere also makes the hallway track a great way to network with fellow engineers and vendors alike to pick up on new developments in the monitoring space.

We try hard to make our products as intuitive and familiar as possible, but there will always be “advanced” options and rarely-used features. Giving users choice and control over their experience will naturally lead to features that are used less frequently or settings that only a small percentage of users will change. So how do we decide what order and prominence to give to these lesser-used features?

Vendor risk ranks alongside cybersecurity, compliance, reputational, and financial risks as one of the top risks to any organization. With any risk, you need to identify, monitor, and mitigate that risk, especially when it comes to your supply chain. The question for someone in my role as a senior manager of compliance management is: What level of risk is being posed and why? Stated another way: Do I really know what my supply chain is doing?