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Changes In Technology: How Catchpoint Monitors And Observes The Internet, From 2008 To Today

Last month, Catchpoint celebrated its 13th birthday, a milestone which has us feeling more than a little nostalgic. As we embark on our teenage years as a company, we have also been looking back and reflecting on all the changes the world of technology has seen since Catchpoint was “born” back in 2008. The world looks very different today than it did at our founding and, for that matter, so do we!

ChatOps and Mobile Adoption: The Power of Teams Working Where They Are

The way we socialize, learn, shop, and receive care has changed drastically over the last 18 months. For many of us, perhaps one of the most drastic changes was the way we work. While work from home (WFH) was an option before the pandemic, NCCI states, “only 6% of the employed worked primarily from home and about three-quarters of workers had never worked from home.” Fast forward to 2021, and according to NorthOne, here’s how much things have changed.

Capitalizing on Cloud to Drive Greater Value from Data and Analytics Insights: A New Accenture Splunk Business Group Business Group

We’ve had a busy week in the Splunk Partnerverse! In addition to the new Splunk Partnerverse Program announced last week, we also shared some significant partnership news with one of our longest-standing partners, Accenture.

Having Trouble Getting the Right Insights From Your Cloud Network Monitoring? Preview Splunk NPM Today!

With cloud computing, containers, virtualization and the move to software-defined infrastructure, your cloud infrastructure monitoring is consistently evolving. New challenges can impact the reliability of business services where network performance is a significant subset. Your network is filled with a multitude of hosts, distributed services, and containers. It’s hard to monitor the health of these ephemeral cloud infrastructure components. How is their behavior affecting your applications?

3 ways to improve the healthcare patient experience and save

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, improving the customer experience is critical. Nowhere is this more important than in the healthcare industry, where increased engagement can lead to better patient outcomes. “Pairing digital technologies with human coaching and clinical care can offer a dramatically better patient experience through personalized attention, on-demand access to support, and automated reminders,” explains a Workflow article.

Is Anyone Reading Your Company Comms? How This IT Channel Received +2214% More Views Than Email

An A/B test reveals Nexthink Engage gets 2,214% more views than email. When a company gets big news, they want to share that success with employees and make sure they understand what this information means for the business. Case in point: Recently, a Nexthink customer and leading life sciences company, received FDA approval – a huge milestone for them that would surely amplify the company’s brand and with it, new sales and marketing demands.

Enhance the security of your open-source applications and share feedback

Are you spending time on high-impact, high-value activities, or are you constantly derailed by maintenance, support, and deployment challenges? Does your organisation consume open-source software that needs security patching? Where do you get the security updates from, and how do you track what’s available? Are you responsible for vulnerability management, compliance, and long term maintenance of the software running on top of Ubuntu in your organisation?

LMA 2: Reimaginging observability with MicroK8s and Grafana, Prometheus and Grafana Loki

Juju re-imagines the world of operating software securely, reliably, and at scale. Juju realizes the promise of model-driven operations. Excellent observability is undeniably a key ingredient for operating software well, which is why the Charmed Operator ecosystem has long provided operators the ability to run a variety of open source monitoring software. We collectively refer to these operators as the Logs, Metrics, and Alerts (LMA) stack.

Event Highlights: InfluxDays North America 2021

Roadmap revealed, insight gained, connections made, and InfluxDB Challenge swag won — that’s a wrap for InfluxDays North America 2021! The conference, which brought together the #InfluxDB community to exchange time series acumen and use cases, is always a reminder of why and how we’ve grown. It included subject-matter-expert led courses, on-demand videos and live sessions.