SquaredUp 5.2 is now available! This update brings you enhancements to the PowerShell tile, new Splunk visualizations, various security improvements, and excitingly, a brand new Dashboard Gallery and OpenSource GitHub Samples repository. Keep reading to find out more.
Java is as old as the Internet itself. It is the child of the mid-90s and exploded into the world just as dial-up started to take over suburban phone lines. In a way, it can be seen as the original Boomer of programming languages — not as elderly ancient as the C-families, but not as young and hip as JavaScript and its multitude of frameworks and libraries either.
I’m a big fan of Saturday Night Live, and one of my most favorite skits is from the 1994/1995 season called Bathroom Monkey with Janeane Garafalo. It’s a fake television ad of a woman sitting on her couch, talking about how difficult it is to keep her bathroom clean. She describes this new product she discovered called “Bathroom Monkey” and how the Bathroom Monkey system can keep her entire bathroom clean for up to eight whole months—and she is loving it.
When I started at Ivanti, I asked around to get a diagram of process flows and communication flow for Endpoint Manager (EPM). I was given two different diagrams that were each about 10 years old and not customer ready. While not much of the communication had changed, some had making these outdated and irrelevant. I decided to take these diagrams, update them, and put them into a simple and modern diagram that would be customer ready for posting online.
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Icinga Web v2.7.5, v2.8.3 and v2.9.0. Besides the compatibility with IcingaDB, the v2.9.0 release includes major enhancements to access control, support for PHP 8, the possibility to stay logged in during browser restarts and a full-fledged date-time picker in all browsers. You can find all issues related to the v2.9.0 release on our Roadmap. Please make sure to also check the respective upgrading section in the documentation.
We’re thrilled to announce that Elastic has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cognitive Search, Q3 2021*, highlighting, in our opinion, our commitment to providing a set of tools that makes it quicker and easier to build great search experiences with Elasticsearch. In addition to receiving the highest score possible in the strategy category, Elastic also received the highest scores possible in the operations and market awareness criteria.
The growing adoption of microservices and Kubernetes gave rise to the need to efficiently manage, schedule, and control Kubernetes clusters, where tools like Terraform are helping many organizations address those challenges today. Terraform is a popular choice among DevOps and Platform Engineering teams as engineers can use the tool to quickly spin up and edit environments directly from their CI/CD pipelines.
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the relationship between world-class athletes and world-class IT systems. At first glance, it seems like there’d be little to compare, but there’s an interesting relationship between preparation and performance both these worlds share. During the Olympics, we see people cover 100 metres in under 10 seconds, cut through a pool in a minute, and stick landings with precision.
Since last week, I’ve been speaking with Splunk customers and our own team about the cyberattacks impacting the Kaseya software platform. While Splunk was not impacted by the ransomware attack, as a security leader we want to help the industry by providing tools, guidance and support. It’s critical that we work together as a community to counter cybersecurity threats and share information about events like these.
