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More Clouds, More Tools, More Problems

Organizations need tools to manage their infrastructure, which today is expanding beyond the data center to include multiple public clouds. In fact, in a recent survey of hybrid cloud decision makers, we found that the vast majority of respondents (88%) have placed more than one-quarter of their workloads in the public cloud, and 44% indicated that they’re running more than half of their workloads in the public cloud.

Ubuntu Pro-based Microsoft SQL Server Instances available for Azure

1st November 2021: Today, Canonical announced support with Microsoft for Microsoft SQL Server with Ubuntu Pro on Microsoft Azure. Canonical has worked with Microsoft to bring a highly performant and fully supported solution for SQL Server to market, based around the Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS operating system.

Securing the Open-Source supply chain with Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud

It’s official: since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercrime has increased by 600%. Among these, ransomware attacks are estimated to cost $6 trillion in 2021 alone. And there were nearly 550,000 ransomware attacks per day in 2020. The question is: are your workloads secure enough? In this blog, we will discuss how to make your Open Source workloads more secure in one second.

Dynamically control your custom metrics volume with Metrics without Limits

Sending custom metrics to Datadog allows you to monitor important data specific to your business and applications, such as latency, dollars per customer, items bought, or trips taken. And tags are key to being able to slice and dice these custom metrics to quickly find the information you need. But collecting enough custom metrics to have complete visibility can be cost prohibitive. For example, you might run microservices instrumented across thousands of containers.

Continuous deployment of Node apps to Heroku

CircleCI orbs are reusable packages of YAML configuration that condense repeated pieces of config into a single line of code. Since its launch in 2018, the CircleCI orbs registry has been used by developers, development teams, and by companies who want to help developers integrate their services seamlessly into continuous integration pipelines. In this tutorial, we will show how to use CircleCI orbs to continuously deploy a Node.js application to Heroku, one of the most popular hosting platforms.

Motadata at GITEX Technology Week 2021

GITEX GLOBAL 2021 has come to an End! A big thanks to our partners and visitors for taking the time to come & meet us. Being the biggest trade show in the region, GITEX gave us the right platform to unveil our latest AI-powered offerings, AIOps and ServiceOps, which we are positioning as a unified solution to meet the challenges faced by enterprises due to the rapid modernization of their businesses.

Top 7 SolarWinds Competitors and Alternatives to Know in 2021

SolarWinds Inc., based in the United States, is a software company that helps businesses manage their networks, systems, and IT infrastructure. Its headquarters are in Austin, Texas, and it has sales and product development offices around the United States and in a number of other countries. It has acquired a number of other businesses, including Pingdom, Papertrail, and Loggly, which it continues to operate under their original names.

Get control back into the Control Room

This article explains how SquaredUp for SCOM leverages the true power of the SCOM platform: the SCOM object model. I believe in dashboarding you need simplicity and granularity all in one. Simplicity for your Control Room, which gives clear and quick insight. Granularity and detail for your system management engineers to be able to drill-down into details and find that Root-Cause quickly.