“How do you know your web properties and APIs are up and functioning as expected for users, not just nationally, but across the entire planet?“ Splunk Synthetic Monitoring provides an effective solution to monitor and track the reliability of web properties from locations all over the globe. By generating simulated user or API requests with Splunk Synthetics you’ll quickly be able to measure response times from various locations, devices, and connection types.

GitHub is an extremely popular, web-based repository hosting service that allows developers to store their Git repos in a central location. GitHub Enterprise is one of GitHub’s many product offerings. Tailored for mid-size to large companies, GitHub Enterprise includes enhanced code management solutions, additional code security features, automation support, and a range of additional features for optimizing workflows.

In today’s modern digital environment, many organizations are architecting their infrastructure and services around a mix of cloud and on-prem solutions. Both cloud and private servers offer unique benefits, and taking a hybrid approach to infrastructure can allow businesses to better meet user demand on a global scale while expanding capabilities, minimizing risk, and keeping services consistent.

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced today the general availability of Charmed Kubeflow 1.7. Charmed Kubeflow is an open-source, end-to-end MLOps platform that can run on any cloud, including hybrid cloud or multi-cloud scenarios. This latest release offers the ability to run serverless machine learning workloads and perform model serving, regardless of the framework that professionals use.

Devices are everywhere but they all need maintenance. Maintaining household gadgets such as laptops, printers and smart watches has become easier over the years as update technology evolves. Today, users do not have to even think about updates – they can seamlessly take place in the background or overnight. These updates take place over-the-air (OTA) and have revolutionised the way that we keep hardware, software or firmware maintained.

Software developers need controlled and isolated environments to try new features, bug fixes, and other changes before deploying them to production. This separation captures possible issues early, reducing the risk of live environment errors or performance issues. Teams can experiment with various configurations, tools, and technologies in test environments, fostering innovation and development.

Network security breaches are every business’s nightmare. A security breach could be anything from password attacks with further unauthorized system access to data leakage. Whether it is a small start-up or a large enterprise with millions of dollars in turnover, a single network security breach can be detrimental to the reputation of any company, not to mention the financial losses incurred. According to the 2021 Thales Data Threat Report, 45% of US companies suffered a data breach in 2020.

Think about this—what was the last incident that challenged you? Did you learn anything from it? It will be shocking to no one to hear that we deal with our fair share of incidents. These run the gamut from tiny bugs to significant outages (thankfully, the latter happening only very rarely 😮‍💨). Either way, we always take the time to learn from them in some way. This might look like changes to our response processes or revisiting systems we’re using.

Azure Blob Containers provide a scalable and cost-effective solution for managing unstructured data in the cloud. With a wide range of options and configurations, Azure Blob Storage offers flexibility and customization to cater to various data storage needs. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of key factors related to Azure Blob Containers and the importance of considering their impact when making decisions about Azure Blob Storage.

Slack is one of the most widely used messaging Apps, providing collaboration and chat solutions to businesses. We at Squadcast understand that most of your work happens over Slack. Hence, we have made improvements to our Slack integration capabilities by introducing a bunch of UI and functional improvements. This blog will give you an overview of the latest improvements supported by this integration, which we hope will help in better collaboration and Incident Management.