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Calling all Splunk Cloud Platform admins! At Splunk, we're dedicated to making your lives easier when it comes to managing various aspects of your Splunk Cloud Platform. One critical aspect that requires your attention is maintenance, which directly impacts the operational efficiency of your deployments. As the capabilities of the Splunk Cloud Platform grow, so do the Splunk-initiated updates like upgrades to keep your deployments up-to-date with the latest features and functionality.

When managing assets across your organization, IT asset tagging acts as a starting block. It ensures that everything is properly identified and easily tracked to avoid inaccurate inventory records, unregistered losses, or misusage. The practice provides a systematic approach to label and identify software and hardware assets to easily track relevant information throughout the asset’s whole lifecycle.

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS) is an American multinational corporation which offers a wide range of financial products and services. FIS is most known for its development of Financial Technology, or FinTech. FIS has a portfolio of products for the financial services sector, including both retail and investment banking. FIS global customers connect to services from FIS’s Little Rock, AR datacenter.

Managing over 1000 services and applications is daunting for any organization’s IT and Tech operations team. With a diverse mix of on-premises legacy systems and modern cloud stacks, the sheer volume of activity can overwhelm even the most skilled ITOps teams. The task is made more difficult by the fact that observability is fragmented. On average, organizations depend on 21 systems that produce metrics, logs, traces, and alerts for various services.

Arguably, OpenTelemetry exists to (greatly) increase usage of tracing and metrics among developers. That said, logging will continue to play a critical role in providing flexible, application-specific, event-driven data. Further, OpenTelemetry has the potential to bring added value to existing application logging flows.

Elasticsearch® has been used by developers to build search experiences for over a decade. At Microsoft Build this year, we announced the launch of Elasticsearch Relevance Engine™ — a set of tools to enable developers to build AI-powered search applications. With generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and vector search capabilities gaining mindshare, we are delighted to expand our range of tools and enable our customers in building the next generation of search apps.

Logz.io is honored to have our Cloud SIEM as one of the products available as part of the launch of AWS AppFabric. For customers invested in AWS, this inclusion allows you to use our cloud-based, agile SIEM seamlessly alongside other critical SaaS applications.

If you’re looking for SaltStack alternatives, or a comparison of Puppet vs. SaltStack capabilities, look no further — we’ll walk you through the differences in features and overall purpose to help you make a smart choice.

June 27, 2023 We were excited to learn last week that GigaOm named Densify as both a Leader and an “Outperformer” in its new report “Radar for Cloud Resource Optimization”. This was particularly meaningful to us for a few reasons.

Building your own PaaS (Platform as a Service) can revolutionize the way you deploy and manage applications. One of the key advantages of a custom PaaS solution is its ability to streamline the complete application life cycle. With a well-designed PaaS environment, developers can easily package their applications, define dependencies, and deploy them seamlessly across various cloud environments. This simplifies the deployment process, reduces time-to-market, and ensures consistent application delivery.