Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

From 300 baud to multiple gigabits per second, it’s time to celebrate the history of the modem. It occurs to me that we will soon be entering a period where no one will remember the ear-shredding screech of a dial-up modem connecting their computers to the internet—all the while hoping no one picks up the phone and wrecks it. The humble modem is, at least as a device sitting on your desk alongside your computer, largely consigned to history—and more than a few recycling centers.

Companies shifting to permanent hybrid work environments are up against major challenges, including additional investment in new physical experiences for employees. This is complex and expensive. It involves bringing together systems, technology, and teams that have historically been siloed. But with every challenge comes an incredible opportunity to make work better.

At Grafana Labs, we’ve seen an increasing number of customers who are scraping hundreds of millions of active time series but need a solution to reliably store and query such a huge amount of data. So in March, we announced our new open source TSDB, Grafana Mimir, the most scalable, most performant open source time series database in the world.

Does the worst case scenario for your company include alert fatigue from false alarms? Maybe it should. No one likes a false positive when it comes to infrastructure monitoring, and false flags are especially irritating because you have to respond to a problem that doesn’t actually exist. Just how bad are false positives? Let’s break down what these annoying little mistakes add up to for your team. You might be surprised to learn just how much they are hurting your DevOps pipeline.

Calico Open Source is an industry standard for container security and networking that offers high-performance cloud-native scalability and supports Kubernetes workloads, non-Kubernetes workloads, and legacy workloads. Created and maintained by Tigera, Calico Open Source offers a wide range of support for your choice of data plane whether it’s Windows, eBPF, Linux, or VPP. We’re excited to announce our new certification course for Azure, Certified Calico Operator: Azure Expert!

Making time and resources available for learning, development, and certifications are some of the most important ways to help improve employee engagement within IT organizations. In addition to helping you attract and retain talent, team members with specific certifications bring technical knowledge and skills to your operation that can vastly improve efficiency and aid in your overall operations.

The IT Europa Channel Awards reward excellence in European software development, and IT and telecoms solutions. The panel of judges from the MSP and IT community voted for the best solutions across 4 categories, with NinjaOne winning the Best Remote Management Solution in the Solution Provider section at the awards ceremony in London on May 19th 2022. NinjaOne collecting the Best Remote Management Solution at the IT Europa Awards.

Selecting the best chip can be tedious work but the best chip can save you a lot of time and money, and might even be faster! So should you spend time finding the best? I have some words on the topic. If a primary goal of your next project is to learn a new MCU, you want to create something easily reproducible, or if there will be only one machine building the project, then I recommend you to go with the chip you want to learn, the chip most readily available, or the easiest one to work with.

ITSM refers to IT Service Management, which simply encapsulates the activity performed by an organisation to maintain sustainable information technology infrastructure. It is designed to streamline IT services workflow and thus, increase productivity. Furthermore, it includes the set of IT policies, processes, and practices to pull it together in order to align the IT services with the business needs and objectives.

As CEO of Cribl, one of my greatest privileges is to spend time on the road and on calls with our customers hearing about their needs and challenges. Cribl is a focused company. We build software for observability and security. With this lens, it becomes clear the industry is neglecting to address the unique needs of our users. There are many reasons, most of which are simply that vendors tend to come at a user’s problem through the lens of their existing technology.