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Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list out ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll discuss some must-know tips to plan your IT budget. Budgets are an essential aspect of business that determine how different teams throughout an organization can enhance their functioning and the overall offerings of the business as a whole, however many businesses struggle with planning their budgets.

Learning how to create a software implementation project plan is a worthy investment of your time. When software is effectively integrated with your existing workflows and processes, it enables your team to reap the full benefits of any given solution. A new joint survey by Mulesoft and Deloitte found that companies (with at least 1,000 employees) now use an average of 976 applications. Yes, 976 different solutions!

In 2009, as the world became increasingly data-driven, organizations began to accumulate vast amounts of data — a period that would later be characterized as the Big Data revolution. While most organizations were used to handling well-structured data in relational databases, this new data was appearing more and more frequently in semi-structured and unstructured data formats.

Kubectl provides a variety of methods for engaging with your Kubernetes cluster, making it a popular choice for developers and administrators when troubleshooting issues or implementing modifications to a cluster.

Reflecting on a year of resilience and growth at Uptime.com, our CEO Jonathan Franconi has shared his gratitude for the team and our customers in the latest holiday blog post. Uptime.com is immensely proud to announce our contribution to UNICEF, supporting their mission to make a positive impact worldwide. Dive into the festive spirit with us!

An IT service desk is the backbone of enterprises that rely highly on technology. It is responsible for providing technical support and assistance to employees and customers who experience issues with their technology. This signifies an IT service desk’s integral role in enhancing an enterprise’s internal/external service delivery and user experience. However, enterprises can only enhance their service delivery and IT operations when they maximize their service desk.

Just in time for your holiday viewing! Learn how to solve real-time time series processing challenges with Quix—the stream processing framework using Kafka and Python—and purpose-built time series database InfluxDB.

Grafana Alerting helps you identify issues almost immediately after they occur — and you don’t have to constantly check your system to get the insights you need. Instead, Grafana Alerting sends alert notifications to reach you wherever you are, whether that’s in a Slack channel or in a messaging app like Telegram. Telegram is a viable option for receiving alerts, especially when you want personal or individual notifications rather than those sent to a team.