Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In the ever-evolving landscape of database technology, MongoDB stands out as the unrivalled leader in document databases, and it is the first-choice database solution for organisations across industries. Its pivotal role in the technological infrastructure of countless enterprises underscores its status as a mission-critical asset.

Cloud migration is the new gold rush, judging from the results of a survey involving 1,283 IT professionals. The survey shows that 88% of companies already use the cloud for some applications and data. Another 80% said they will have moved to cloud and co-location services by 2025. While 87% of respondents said the pandemic accelerated their cloud migration strategy, many companies’ transition plans had been in the works for years.

It’s overlooked, underappreciated, and oft-rescheduled. Time to give the humble 1-on-1 meeting the focus it deserves.

Javascript has been enabling browsers for years, and for better or for worse, the internet is made of JS. NodeJS brought it to the server side. TypeScript has wrapped familiar object-oriented, statically-typed syntax around it. Anywhere you look, you’ll find Javascript: on the client, server, mobile, and embedded systems.

Exoprise supports monitoring from inside the firewall and outside the firewall. Every day, we have prospects spin up Synthetic Transaction Monitoring (STM) as part of their free trial to test tenant access and performance from one of the Exoprise public points of presence, which we refer to as public sites.

In the dynamic world of IT, traditional network monitoring approaches are no longer sufficient to manage the complexities of today’s networks—be they wired or wireless. To stay ahead of network events, IT administrators must shift from being reactive to adopting a proactive stance. This transition involves a comprehensive approach to network monitoring that includes forecasting future network requirements with the help of machine learning (ML) technology.

Ask any community member who’s ever donned the moderator tag in a new forum and they’ll agree that handling a multitude of new general questions, technical queries, and troubleshooting scenarios can be challenging at first. However, thanks to the rise of AI-powered chatbots, there are a lot of new opportunities to find innovative ways to tackle these challenges. The Mattermost Peer-to-Peer Forum is a good example of a community consisting primarily of developers.

Welcome to the era of AI. It’s the technology advancement that motivates and excites me every day as a CTO. Generative AI is already transforming many areas of our lives, from helping us write emails to assisting us with customer service. What waits for us on the immediate horizon? Today, we released our annual predictions series. Splunk’s 2024 Predictions features three editions: Executive, Security and Observability.

As larger MSPs have been able to push their services upstream to bigger companies, and with the rise of things like co-managed IT services opening this option up to smaller MSPs as well, many are finding that this calls for them to adopt more mature IT service management (ITSM) practices. So how does ITSM differ from the professional services automation (PSA) platforms commonly used by MSPs?