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Did you know that nearly 15% of IT budgets go towards maintaining legacy systems? Recent data suggests that these systems cost hundreds of millions annually to operate and maintain. For that reason, many companies continue to invest in moving their systems away from expensive on-premises to the cloud, where maintenance is more cost-effective and consistent thanks to modern monitoring capabilities.

Distributed tracing is an essential process in the modern world of cloud-based applications. Tracing tracks and observes each service request an application makes across distributed systems. Developers may find distributed tracing most prevalent in microservice architectures where user requests pass through multiple services before providing the desired results.

So, you’re an MSP that’s recently won a new client. As part of the deal, you’ve promised a network assessment: a look at the overall network to determine if there are any glaring issues that will interfere with day-to-day operations. The topology is vast, spanning multiple sites and dozens of switches and firewalls. How do you act quickly? And what should you be looking for? Here are 7 network assessment tasks Auvik can help you easily complete.

FastAPI is known for building REST APIs, middleware services, and simple integration for adding authentications and more. And it’s known for doing all of that…you guessed it, fast. It’s used by tech giants and scientists alike, and according to Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey 2022 more developers are using FastAPI than Ruby on Rails.

Developers commonly integrate the code and these frequent modifications in a central repository as part of the software development method is known as continuous integration (CI). Improved software quality, faster quality audit and bug fixes, and quick validation and release cycles are all major goals of continuous integration. Continuous Delivery (CD), which builds on top of Continuous Integration(CI), includes automating both builds and the complete software release process.

Check August 2022 health report on the top 10 most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month. Please analyze the information with a grain of salt as each provider has their own framework for reporting incidents, and in no way one provider having more outages, means that they are worse than other. Also we are comparing providers with very different sizes and market share.

You wouldn’t let just anyone enter your home, and your network should be no different. Here’s how Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) acts as your cloud infrastructure’s own security guard for better data protection.

Colleges and universities face immense IT challenges. The end user base is regularly overturning with students coming and going. And residential students are just part of the problem. Increasingly, schools support extensive distance learning, which only gained ground thanks to COVID. Now that remote work and distance learning are the new mandates, there are even more difficult challenges for Higher Education IT to deal with.

Microsoft 365 services help companies worldwide improve business and revenue by providing best in class digital workspace experience. The NiCE Active 365 Management Pack complements this by advanced M365 monitoring such as full Teams Call analysis integrated into Microsoft SCOM. Advanced monitoring and analytics help you reveal unwanted micro-events influencing the health and performance of the system and its users.