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New Active Directory Integration features in Ubuntu 22.04 (part 3) - Privilege Management

Linux Active Directory (AD) integration is historically one of the most requested functionalities by our corporate users, and with Ubuntu Desktop 22.04, we introduced ADsys, our new Active Directory client. This blog post is part 3 of a series where we will explore the new functionalities in more detail.

Choosing the Right Incident Notification Tool for Your Incident Response Plan

Is your IT team ready to respond to an increasing volume of data security incidents? According to the 2021 Annual Data Breach report from the Identity Theft Resource Center, 2021 saw a record number of data breaches, representing a 68% increase from the year prior. The most recent Cost of a Data Breach report from IBM shares the Ponemon Institute’s finding that the average data breach is a $4.24 million expense, up 9.8% from the previous year.

How to deploy a Go web application to the cloud (Part 1)

Go has emerged as a popular option to develop web applications, especially for API backends, used by a React or Vue frontend. This post is the first of a multi-post series on the deployment of a web application to a cloud provider, starting with the simplest form of deployment, all the way to using Kubernetes for your web apps.

Inside Grafana Labs hackathons: how they work and what projects ended up on the product roadmap

Three times a year, Grafanistas around the world step away from their daily responsibilities for one week and put their creative energy into what has quickly become a cultural touchstone at Grafana Labs: Our company-wide hackathon.

GrafanaCONline 2022 Day 3 recap: Alerting in Grafana 9, Loki developments, dashing dashboards, and more!

GrafanaCONline 2022 is still going strong, with sessions that covered alerting in Grafana 9, developments in Grafana Loki, and some winning Loki use cases. Plus, there was a talk about building an a F1 telemetry analysis solution that uses Grafana Cloud, along with plenty of dashboard discussions.

High Availability vs Disaster Recovery: What's the Difference?

Continual service delivery is key to a great customer experience and to building a good reputation. Service interruptions - besides affecting the customer experience - can be costly to the business. In a 2025 survey, 25% of respondents said that the hourly cost of a server outage for them was somewhere between $301,000 and $400,000. Besides this, failure of critical systems can bring businesses to a halt and can even cost lives.

Authors' Cut-Structured Events Are the Basis of Observability

At its core, observability is understanding the internal state of your systems based on the telemetry they output so you can effectively troubleshoot, debug, and tune performance. However, there’s a tendency to reduce observability to a collection of logs, metrics, and traces, which strips away much of the visibility you need to understand what’s going on.

Network Configuration, Monitoring and Management Explained

Network configuration entails setting up your network to support local or remote network communication. This configuration allows for wired or wireless connection and entails the installation of network hardware, software, and devices. In this article, let’s take a look at network configuration, including the benefits, various types and tools, and how to monitor and manage the network.

Life as a Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

Google “CSO role description” and you will get 9 million results, none of which will sufficiently describe why it has been both challenging and enormously fulfilling for me at Tidal Migrations. Quite simply, a CSO role is uniquely tailored to the company it belongs to. So while Deloitte has this article about the six faces of a CSO, I wanted to share how my role came about and what it means to be a CSO at Tidal.