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This 2020 is perfect to check our beloved Pandora FMS server and precisely a very important component is the database (BD). As our loyal readers already know (and if you visit us for the first time you can read the introduction to architecture on our Wiki), MariaDB is one of the databases chosen by Pandora FMS to keep all your information about your device monitoring: Let’s see how to optimize MariaDB!

Pretty much every organization of any size is paying close attention to the adoption of security practices in order to manage and protect their most sensitive data, including personal identifiable information (PII), personal health information (PHI), or other customer and financial data. For any team using SaaS tools, data protection is a table-stakes requirement. For compliance regulated industries — banking, financial services, healthcare.

When viewing and analysing data with Elasticsearch, it is not uncommon to see visualizations and monitoring and alerting solutions that make use of timestamps that have been generated on remote/monitored systems. However, using remote-generated timestamps may be risky.

What drives an enterprise’s decision to adopt an AIOps platform? Which key problems are they trying to solve? Once it’s deployed, how can they track its value, and explain it to non-IT business leaders? What cultural and technology changes does an AIOps deployment trigger?

We’re excited to announce that OpsRamp is now officially Nutanix Ready Certified as an AHV Integrated Technology Alliance Partner in the Nutanix Elevate Program. Our certified solution lets customers confidently discover, monitor, and automate not only their Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) but also their broader hybrid IT environment.

When you work in IT, there’s never a shortage of things to do. For folks who like to be busy, IT is a great place to be. But the workload can quickly become overwhelming, and it may often feel like you and your team are putting out fires and not productively working on other tasks that move the needle for your team or company. The trick is managing your team’s time effectively so the excessive pile of work gets done. These four time management strategies can help. Let’s get started.

With the advent of microservices, technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and services like Cloud Computing, have showcased the broader need for observability. Collecting valuable information about the communication endpoints and how they propagate through the discrete components of the application stack is the key to understanding when, why and what happens in case of failure.

Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution? If you are asking, you are probably wondering if you can use Ubuntu anywhere else other than your workstation or development environment. Perhaps you are wondering whether you can implement Ubuntu in your enterprise, including production environments? If that is the case, I have good news for you. Yes. Ubuntu is an enterprise Linux distribution with full commercial support provided by Canonical, the publisher and maintainer of Ubuntu.

We are delighted to share a new initiative – the Ubuntu Appliance portfolio. Together with NextCloud, Mosquitto, Plex, OpenHAB and AdGuard, we have created a new class of Ubuntu derivatives: specialised appliance images that do one thing beautifully. Ubuntu Appliances transform a Raspberry Pi or PC into a secure, self-updating solution, free of charge. The Ubuntu Appliance mission is to enable secure, self-healing, single-purpose devices.

SaaS businesses are built upon the simplicity of computing, storage, and networking they provide to their users. Web and mobile applications provided by SaaS businesses are meant to be straight forward to consume for users. However, it’s important to deliver an excellent experience to your users who rely heavily on your reliability and performance. Service Level Agreements (SLA) plays an important role here.