If you think you might be outgrowing your current remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, this RMM health checklist will help you pinpoint whether it’s time to change. Even if you’re not at that point yet, running through this process regularly will help ensure that you don’t let things drag on longer than you need to if there is an issue.
Distributed systems, such as modern microservices-based applications, are highly scalable, but also highly complex. Dependencies and unexpected interactions between services are a common cause of incidents, and these incidents are also notoriously hard to test for. xk6-disruptor — an extension that adds fault injection capabilities to Grafana k6, the open source reliability and load testing tool — can help overcome these challenges.
The transition from traditional on-premises IT infrastructure to the public cloud has brought substantial relief to IT decision-makers and sysadmins. Since many organizations use Microsoft Windows as their preferred operating system, Microsoft Azure has become the public cloud provider of choice automatically owing to a familiar GUI and Active Directory sync.
The financial and operational ramifications of downtime have become increasingly pronounced over the past seven years. In 2014, Gartner predicted that downtime costs organizations an average of $300,000 per hour. However, recent statistics lie in sharp contrast to this 6-figure estimate, with 44% of organizations now counting their hourly downtime costs at over $1 million - exclusive of the ensuing penalties or legal fees.
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is set to significantly impact the financial sector. Coming into full effect in 2025, this EU regulation will set new standards for information and communications technology (ICT) risk management. In this landscape, how can financial firms ensure they’re not only compliant, but also operationally resilient?
Kubernetes (K8s) is at the forefront of modern infrastructure, but with its capabilities comes a deluge of telemetry data. Efficiently managing and optimizing this data is crucial to harnessing the full potential of your Kubernetes deployments.
From the tight global labor market to social and political volatility, macroeconomic headwinds continue to hamper business growth. Such a complex environment is anything but smooth. Your organization may be feeling pressure to deliver on initiatives to support talent, products and services, and business operations. Finding success in these areas requires digital transformation. Innovative companies are best positioned to prosper and thrive.
Chances are, you’re familiar with the strategy of adding an additional “9” to service level agreements (SLAs) to boost the experiences your organization provides. With plenty of ways to do so, there’s one that particularly stands out among the others: Service Blueprinting. Banking executive Lynn Shostack in 1984 first described a service blueprint in a Harvard Business Review publication.
