Even with dedicated database staff (often with impressive technical skills), businesses need help understanding how to address database issues. IT managers and database specialists are keen to try different approaches to keeping databases working as efficiently as possible. One popular approach is ‘DevOps’. As companies navigate the complexities of digital transformation and a growing trend toward cloud migration, IT environments have become extraordinarily complex.

Reliability testing and Chaos Engineering are essential for finding reliability risks and improving the resiliency of systems. Gremlin makes it easy to do so, but not every engineer needs access to the same experiments, systems, or services. That’s why we released customizable role-based access controls (RBAC), letting Gremlin customers control which actions your users can perform in Gremlin.

A patch management process lays out the steps associated with updating software and hardware. Every patch management process shares a few core similarities, but with so many tools for managing patching in so many different kinds of setups, no two IT teams’ patch management processes look alike. What does your patch management process look like? Are you always ahead of the game and ready to patch on time, or are you usually behind schedule and not sure where you’re getting stuck?

On March 19-23, Devart joined SQLBits2024, a non-profit yearly conference connecting 2279 attendees from 60 countries for training, networking, and experience sharing. This venue is a place of power for everyone interested in data engineering, architecture, database administration, analytics, and development with SQL, and we were glad to join the ranks with the people who share the same passion for SQL with us.

Pets.com was an online pet supply retailer founded in 1998, during the dot-com craze. In February 2000, it raised $83 million to go public based mainly on metrics like user acquisition, website traffic, and brand recognition. However, the profit margins were minimal and the marketing costs exorbitant, which led Pets.com to file for bankruptcy nine months after its IPO. The industry now recognizes these metrics as vanity metrics.

Forrester Research recently published its Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Solutions, Q3 2024 Wave report in which Spot by NetApp is recognized as one of the 12 most significant vendors in the space. However, Spot by NetApp decided not to participate in this research process given that its Cloud Cost Management products, Cost Intelligence and Billing Engine, were not yet Generally Available (GA) when the research questionnaire was due earlier in the year.

Learn how to strengthen and maintain your Zero Trust security posture, improve compliance, and reduce risk with Cloudsmith's armory of access, pipeline, publishing, and monitoring controls.

As FinOps programs scale — particularly within larger enterprise organizations — it becomes increasingly important for different roles within the organization to have access to different sets of data to make informed, proactive decisions related to their specific areas of responsibility.

CloudBolt helps optimize cloud usage by offering robust automation and cloud cost management features. Still, some organizations may find it lacks the features and integration they need. Also, its pricing structure might only be suitable for some budgets, leading businesses to consider other solutions in the market. So, what are the best Cloudbolt alternatives?

OpenCV is a powerful open source computer vision and machine learning software library for real-time applications. It provides multiple functionalities, including image processing, object detection, and video analysis, making it a fundamental tool for researchers and developers in the field of computer vision. You can deploy your OpenCV applications using AWS Lambda, a serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.