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Leveraging data to enable more informed data center power management is critical for maintaining uptime, increasing energy efficiency, increasing power capacity utilization, and reducing costs. Understanding which power metrics to monitor is the first step towards smarter data center operations.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a system that identifies and catalogs security vulnerabilities in software and hardware. It is an essential tool for cybersecurity professionals, providing a standardized identifier for each vulnerability, which helps in sharing data across different security tools and platforms. Understanding CVEs is crucial for maintaining secure systems and responding quickly to emerging threats.

Voice-directed picking is an established method for hands-free order fulfillment in warehouses around the world. If you haven’t explored it to boost productivity, now's the time. As it has evolved, voice-based data entry – both text-to-speech and speech-to-text – can be installed into warehouse workflows quickly and economically, without changing your existing warehouse management or other enterprise systems.

“O11y”, also known as Observability, is changing how we handle system performance. This guide will walk you through the essentials of O11y and how to implement it effectively. Let's dive in.

While individual blue screen errors are frustrating, the recent global system crashes caused by a CrowdStrike update incompatible with Microsoft Windows have wreaked havoc across entire industries since early Friday morning. Companies ranging from the airlines, media, and banking industries have been facing significant disruptions, with thousands of customer-facing devices experiencing blue screens and causing widespread travel delays and chaos.

Do you know how to quickly see what variables and classes are defined? Often, while developing CFEngine policy it’s convenient to emit a variable value or a report based on the presence of a class. For example: In some cases, this is because you are exploring what classes are available. In other cases, it might be DEBUG-related reports helping you understand how a variable is resolved during policy evaluation.

You may have heard of the term Open Radio Access Networks (RAN) widely used in the telecom industry in recent years. In this blog, we are going to explain what Open RAN is, why it represents an important technology transformation, and how it will impact the telecom ecosystem. It is the first part of a series of blogs that will discuss this popular topic.

Today, cloud computing has become the backbone of modern business operations. Companies across the globe rely on cloud services for computing, networking, storage, cybersecurity, and their day-to-day operations. However, the outage involving Microsoft and CrowdStrike has underscored vulnerabilities and risks associated with dependence on the cloud.

Today marks a particularly challenging day for incident responders across the globe. As many of you may have noticed, a recent update from CrowdStrike has triggered widespread disruptions, causing chaos in various sectors. The ripple effects have been far-reaching and severe: While the technical specifics of the issue might not be the focus here—and indeed, there are experts better suited to dissect the cause—what's crucial is understanding the impact on those who manage such crises.

There are several high-performing database services available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). When you need to handle caching, Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), real-time data, session stores, or personalization, you can choose one of these options.