Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Security operations teams and IT operations teams share a lot in common. They have both spent the past decade grappling with systems that grow more complex every year and figuring out ways to handle ever-larger volumes of data. They also both face pressure to identify and remediate problems as quickly as possible – ideally, in real time. And they are supposed to do it all without breaking the bank.

Are you busy and on the go but still need to dig into your data and view your dashboards? We’ve got you covered — introducing… Splunk for iPad! Splunk for iPad is designed for and dedicated to what’s unique and great about the iPad, taking full advantage of its portable and interactive nature with unique dashboard annotation and note-taking features.

A Benjamin Franklin quote, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest,” has always inspired me. Education gives people the confidence to dream big and tackle obstacles they might not have undertaken. IT learning also provides an interesting dilemma for any organization. Employees have access to a wide array of learning resources with varying quality and relevance, but they only have a finite amount of time to spend on it. We can supply IT learning opportunities.

Virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D environments…no matter what you do for work, you’ve been hearing these futuristic-sounding terms for years. To the average worker, these technologies have always existed on the periphery of day-to-day life. They might make waves in the gaming industry, for example, but they’re not changing the workplace on a mass scale. Well, that’s about to change.

Time series data is becoming vital, from IoT devices’ sensors to financial processing. The data collected from these sources can help in sales forecasting and making informed decisions about marketing and financial planning. In this article, you will learn about InfluxDB, one of the most efficient time series databases currently available, and explore how to use InfluxDB with Java.

In the world of a site reliability engineer (SRE), failure is not only an option, but also expected. Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. It is an unavoidable fact. These unexpected failures can lead to huge revenue losses, customer trust and depending on the industry, maybe fines. Fortunately, SRE incident management is one of the core practices used to limit the disruption caused by unexpected issues.

When you’re working with a Continuous Delivery workflow, you rely on building and deploying your websites in such a way that any improvements can be released into production any time. Identifying and fixing failures quickly is key to enabling rapid development cycles. But what happens when you’re looking into a failed build step, with no clue as to how to address it? You can now share links to specific lines within the activity logs.

One of our customers recently got their first bill after moving their Linux and Windows workloads to Azure. Their bill was astronomical! They struggled to answer the question, “how much will it cost?” and their initial cost assessments were vague at best. Here’s what they did.

The Exoprise Marketing team sat down with Exoprise CEO Jason Lieblich and Forrester Senior Analyst Andrew Hewitt, to understand the scope of end-user experience management (EUEM) and Service Watch Real User Monitoring (RUM) capabilities for a remote workforce.

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database that scales automatically with load and supports multiple APIs. This makes it easy to incorporate with your applications while removing the need to maintain your own database servers. The Cosmos DB integrated cache—which is now in public preview—is a new offering that can help reduce costs and improve performance for Azure Cosmos DB.