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The Evolution of Security: From Good to Better to Best

Security is a never-ending journey that evolves as you add new products and applications. There’s no such thing as being 100% secure because things constantly move and adjust within your network, emphasizing the need for organizations to stay ahead of possible threats capable of directly and indirectly affecting them.

Deploy Open Telemetry to Kubernetes in 5 minutes

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that provides a vendor-neutral and language-agnostic way to collect and analyze telemetry data. This tutorial will show you how to integrate OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes, a popular container orchestration platform. Prerequisites.

Pyroscope and Grafana Phlare join together to accelerate adoption of continuous profiling, the next pillar of observability

We are happy to announce that Pyroscope, the company behind the eponymous open source continuous profiling project, is now part of Grafana Labs. With this acquisition, we will be merging the Pyroscope project and Grafana Phlare, the project we launched last year, under the new name Grafana Pyroscope. We first met the Pyroscope team, led by co-founders Ryan Perry and Dmitry Filimonov, as they were graduating from Y Combinator. Like Grafana Labs, they have open source in their DNA.

IT Governance: Definition, Frameworks, and Best Practices

IT governance is the glue that holds the rest of IT Service Management (ITSM) together. It ensures that your organization, its data, and its people are protected. Effective IT governance helps IT to remain in sync with business objectives while reducing risk. In this article, we'll see why it's important for your business, its domains, the different frameworks available, and the roles involved in ensuring IT governance across the company. Let's begin.

How to choose the right cloud provider?

With the need for cloud computing and cloud-native technologies, many businesses are moving workloads to the cloud. Hence, there will be a need for a cloud service provider. This blog will cover the steps to choosing the perfect cloud provider and how a multi-cloud approach can reduce costs. In our meetup with Mark Boost, Dinesh Majrekar, and Saiyam Pathak, they discussed the current state of the cloud industry, why costs are so high, how to reduce your spending, and looking at how Civo can help.

The Lunar Lobster has landed ahead of Ubuntu 23.04

Astrologers will be excited to discover a new constellation has appeared in the night sky ahead of the Ubuntu 23.04 launch next month. A rising Lunar Lobster is rumoured to bring good luck to IT managers looking to deploy and manage Ubuntu Desktop at scale. Also ascendant are Ubuntu gamers as the Steam snap moves closer to a stable release.

Better ROI on Your Microsoft Teams Rooms Investment

Putting money into your Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) makes a lot of sense in the modern workplace. But with rising costs in almost every piece of equipment needed to set an MTR up, how can your business improve its return on investment, and make that outlay more enticing? Microsoft Teams conference room equipment quickly becomes expensive, particularly if you are fitting out multiple spaces in multiple locations.

How Taking Inventory of Your Network's Assets Can Benefit Your IT Workers

The ABCs of IT Infrastructure Monitoring (ITIM)—the Letter I is for Inventory of Assets. "Doing inventory" is probably one phrase retail and hospitality workers loathe. For many workers in these jobs, physically counting items can sometimes be an overnight job. For others in similar positions, it can make for an arduous all-day task while tending to customers' needs. However, despite the time it takes, it is still essential. How else will managers know which items to order for their store?