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What is Database Administration?

In today's digital age, data has become the lifeblood of businesses and organizations. With the exponential growth of data, the need for efficient and secure management has become paramount. This is where database administration comes into play. Database administration is a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation and maintenance of databases. It involves a wide range of tasks, from designing and implementing databases to monitoring and optimizing their performance.
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5 Common SEO Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Technology companies are prone to making mistakes as it pertains to their digital marketing strategies. As far as cloud infrastructure or DevOps is concerned, no ambitious business owners would want to replicate what a competitor has done. Therefore, the same should apply to the world of digital marketing, and more specifically, search engine optimization (SEO), a highly technical and evolving field in itself.

What Is Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)?

Secure remote access is now a necessity for organizations, especially since the hybrid work model is expected to grow from 42% in 2021 to 81% in 2024. To secure remote access and provide support for hybrid or fully remote teams, businesses rely on remote access protocols, such as Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). With this post, you can dive deeper into various aspects of RDP, such as pros/cons and use cases, and acquire a better understanding of this essential protocol.

Ambition, action, and award-winning achievement: creating UK's first EDGE Network

The lessons of history: spotting the EDGE opportunity By early 2020, Pulsant had evolved into a midmarket service provider focused on regional businesses. Catering to this demanding community, Pulsant had developed a range of platforms and data centres to service those businesses that drive the economic growth of UK plc.

How Automation Can Help Scale An MSP Business

For a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to grow, it must win new customers. However, each new customer brings more devices and users that require management, incident ticket resolution, and provisioning. If the above is actioned manually, an MSP requires dedicated staff to handle the new clients’ users, devices, resolve tickets and requests. Bearing in mind, each staff member can only support a certain number of users and devices.

Elevate the Security of Your Kubernetes Secrets with VMware Application Catalog and Sealed Secrets

Alfredo García, manager R&D, VMware contributed to this blog post. VMware Application Catalog now includes enterprise support for Sealed Secrets, enabling customers to add an asymmetric cryptography-based protection to their Kubernetes Secrets stored in shared repositories.

Simplify GitHub Actions scaling with Spot Connect and Elastigroup

GitHub Actions is a CI/CD platform that allows you to define custom workflows and automate various tasks within your software development projects. With GitHub Actions, you can set up continuous integration and deployment pipelines, run tests, perform code analysis, and execute other actions whenever specific events occur, such as pushing code to a repository or creating a pull request.

Get Started with Puppet: A Tutorial Guide for First-Timers

So you’re ready to get started with Puppet and you don’t know where to begin. That’s alright – this short, easy Puppet tutorial will help you get started with Puppet Enterprise. This tutorial blog walks through the first few steps you'll need to take to get Puppet Enterprise up and running so you can start automating your organization's IT infrastructure.

How to Create Powerful, Customized Lua Mailers in HAProxy

SysOps teams know how crucial observability is to maintaining around-the-clock infrastructure health. And while HAProxy already provides reliable logging and stats (for diagnostics and monitoring), what if you could supplement those with a real-time alerting system? That idea inspired our initial inclusion of mailers in HAProxy. Since then, users have been asking for deeper mailer customizability—and we’re thrilled to deliver that with Lua-based email alerts in HAProxy 2.8.

Unveiling Multibot, the "glue" for enterprise workflows

How are you delivering Slack incident management workflows that serve the many teams across your enterprise? How are you addressing the differences in their use cases, access needs, isolation needs, and tech stacks, all while enabling everyone to collaborate? These are challenging questions to answer. To effectively do so, you have a host of conditions to support at the team and company-wide levels: ‍ Team ‍ Company-wide ‍