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When the internet was first developed, the IP addressing scheme was IPv4. This addressing scheme worked really well for about 25 years. After all, it had about 4 billion host addresses. But as the internet grew, we started to see that this was just not going to be enough. Now we have an entire infrastructure that was built on IPv4. While IPv5 addresses have been exhausted, we’ve used band-aid solutions to keep the internet growing.

An often overlooked aspect of a company’s journey to the cloud is cost visibility. While the single number delivered by the cloud provider on a monthly invoice is straightforward, understanding where this number comes from is often more tricky. Fortunately, this task can be facilitated through the usage of various cost monitoring tools available on the market, coming from both third-party companies and the cloud providers themselves.

CIS Benchmarks are best practices for the secure configuration of a target system. The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) is the authority backing CIS Benchmarks. Ubuntu Pro is entitled to be CIS compliant and packaged with CIS toolings from Canonical. Let’s SSH into your Ubuntu Pro virtual machine. If you haven’t yet upgrade your Ubuntu LTS to Ubuntu Pro, please follow this tutorial.

November 9th London, UK: On the heels of Apple’s announcement of a new line of game-changing M1 MacBooks, Canonical is bringing fast and easy Linux to the M1 platform. Multipass, the quickest way to run Linux cross-platform, received an update last week allowing M1 users to run Ubuntu VMs with minimal set-up. Multipass can download and launch a virtual machine image with one command, and developers on M1 can now get running on Linux in as little as 20 seconds.

If you’re reading this, I’m pretty sure I don’t need to do much to convince you of the importance of logs. They are the core atomic unit for understanding your environments and provide the insights required to troubleshoot, debug, and more. The fact of the matter is that everyone in your organization needs logs to perform critical functions of their job.

The NiCE Linux PowerPC Management Pack 1.20 is an enterprise-ready Microsoft SCOM add-on for advanced IBM PowerPC on Linux monitoring. It supports Linux PowerPC administrators in centralized health and performance monitoring to improve user experience and business results. The Management Pack provides clear and precise performance indicators and timely alerts enriched by pinpointing problem identification and troubleshooting information.

Cloud computing is the on demand delivery of IT solutions. Instead of investing capital in buying, owning, and maintaining physical servers and data centers, cloud computing enable the organizations to access the services such as, computing, storages, and databases, whenever required from the desired cloud providers. Now, let us move ahead and have a look at some of the key benefits of cloud computing.

Microsoft System Center Operations Management team has been busy with new features and updates for SCOM. The most recent version, SCOM 2019, came out on March 14th, 2019. The release date for the upcoming SCOM 2022 has been announced to be globally available in Q1 2022. This blog post will provide an overview of some of the features you can expect to see in SCOM 2022 and how those changes may affect your experience of SCOM monitoring as a user or customer.

Every application has errors. It's how you respond to them that makes the difference. In this article, Ashley Allen shows us how to use Honeybadger to make sure your Laravel apps are performing as they should.