Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

SCOM has incredible powers, but it’s not always easy to find the root cause of issues fast. And you definitely don’t get one-click SCOM root cause analysis. We’ve all been there. A business-critical server goes down and you don’t know why. Let’s imagine you had a dashboard showing the health statuses of all your server groups and you notice that the United States is showing as critical.

An API is an interface that allows other software programs to access and execute software programs. Software programs exchange data and communicate via this code. Communicating between products and services without requiring users to understand how they work. Social networks, games, database systems, and devices use web APIs to connect with applications.

PII stand for Personally Identifiable Information, so protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is a top priority for companies small and large, as well as government agencies. Companies are amassing increasing amounts of data on their employees, customers, and partners, making PII security more important than ever. It's critical to understand what PII is and how to protect it. Personal information can be divided into two categories.

While developing the ecosystem around the elmah.io API and App Store, we see an increasing interest and adoption of GitHub and the services around it. We have a range of integrations with GitHub that I’ll introduce you to later in this document. But first of all, I’m happy to announce that elmah.io has been chosen as a GitHub Technology Partner to build integrations in the Marketplace and extend developer capabilities. elmah.io integrates with GitHub in two ways.

Ciara discusses how to analyze SBOMs for vulnerabilities using Open Source tools, and how Cloudsmith can take actions like quarantining your images if it contains vulnerabilities above a certain level.

In HAProxy Data Plane API version 2.6, we continued the effort of expanding support for HAProxy configuration keywords, as this has been the priority with this release cycle, and it will be in the next one too to meet our goal of achieving complete feature parity with both the HAProxy configuration and Runtime API. This will enable you to use HAProxy Data Plane API for configuring HAProxy without any gaps in functionality.

Microsoft has no shortage of online services, computer products, and digital platforms. The sheer amount of different offerings from the tech giant is enough to make anyone's head spin. When it comes to cloud services, the two Microsoft products that immediately come to mind are OneDrive and SharePoint. But what are the differences between SharePoint and OneDrive, and do you need both? Or can you get by with one? What cloud storage service should you invest in?

Distributed systems open us up to myriad complexities due to their microservices architecture. There are always little problems that arise in the system. Therefore, engineering teams must be able to determine how to prioritize the challenges. Viewing logs and metrics of such systems enables engineers to know the shared state of the system components, thereby informing the decision-making on what challenge needs to be solved most immediately.

Knowledge is king in today’s information-driven business world, as most knowledge managers like me know. Having the right information at customers' fingertips can greatly influence their perception of the customer support experience. In today’s self-service world, a well-populated knowledge base with a reliable group of contributors is not enough to create a great experience. The content must be relevant and timely.

In the era of technology defined by cloud computing, features evolve at the blinding speed of continuous deployment. When large software development organizations like Microsoft deliver semi-annual releases of products, like SQL Server, the volume of new features can be so large they can be hard to grasp. Microsoft continues to push the boundaries on what’s possible, both in on-premises and cloud data platforms, and they aim to make the life of data professionals much more manageable.