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From Web Scale to Edge Scale: Rancher 2.4 Supports 2,000 Clusters on its Way to 1 Million

Rancher 2.4 is here – with new under-the-hood changes that pave the way to supporting up to 1 million clusters. That’s probably the most exciting capability in the new version. But you might ask: why would anyone want to run thousands of Kubernetes clusters – let alone tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or more? At Rancher Labs, we believe the future of Kubernetes is multi-cluster and fully heterogeneous.

While You Work from Home, Double Down on Elasticsearch Security

As engineers, you and I have a responsibility to protect both our customers’ and our respective companies’ data. But unlike our office networks that adhere to strict security protocols and a well-defined perimeter, our home networks usually fall short. And now that most of us are at home waiting out the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s time to revisit of logging in and Elasticsearch security during while you work from home.

Weathering an Economic Downturn: How Cycle Can Help Your Business Survive

In the last month, we’ve seen one of the most dramatic movements in economic activity ever recorded. Many business owners are clutched in the grips of mandatory closures and uncertainty of the future, for their business and for their employees. The tech world has been hit less hard — at least for now. Remote work is second nature to many of us and offering our products in the digital space means we are open for business.

5 Tips to Make Working From Home Work for You

I'm not sure what your work from home set up looks like, but mine includes an ironing board behind me. There's a set of golf clubs in the corner, and a pile of old clothes on the floor. My late grandmother's bookshelf tries desperately to bring some order to the room, but even it is filled with a hodgepodge of stuff. The problem is, I never intended to work from home. My "home office" can be best described as a storage room mixed with a little bit of the chaos.

IT Operations in the Age of Coronavirus

Coronavirus has been a shock to the system for many IT organizations that are traditionally accustomed to working together in person. When you’re in an office, you can often use informal methods of communication—like swinging by someone’s desk, calling them on their office extension, or even imparting critical information when you run into them in the company cafeteria.

How To Keep Traffic Spikes from Crashing Your Website

At first glance — and probably second and third as well — having too much traffic seems like a really nice problem to have; like when billionaires struggle to decide which yacht to buy (“I say Thurston, the one with the tennis courts is quite lovely, but the one with the outdoor cinema is so charming”). However, too much traffic really is a problem, because it causes websites to either dramatically s-l-o-w down (which is terrible) or crash (which is worse than terrible).

The 7-Step plan for successful AIOps implementations

The idea of applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to more rapidly and accurately resolve IT incidents and manage alerts has been gaining steam in the past year. While AIOps, as it’s frequently called, has spawned an entirely new market of startups, many enterprise IT leaders are playing a cautious hand so far – and for good reason. There are risks, though. If an AIOps tool goes wrong out of the gates, IT and executive trust diminishes.

Alert Integrations: Right Person, Right Message, Right Time

DEJ's The Roadmap to Becoming a Top Performing Organization in Managing IT Operations report found that 40% of IT teams use more than 10 monitoring tools to ensure the right levels of operational visibility and control. Given the diversity of tools used by enterprises, the only way to ensure collaborative unified incident management is to use a modern AIOps platform with native infrastructure discovery and monitoring instrumentation.