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How to Choose a Patch Management Solution

It’s pretty easy to hit that “remind me later” button when you don’t want to wait for installations, reboots, and possible errors if something goes wrong with the update. Snoozing that patch notification can quickly become a habit, and before you know it, a critical piece of software is weeks or months out of date. More people are learning that this isn’t a bit of harmless procrastination -- it’s actually a huge cybersecurity risk.

Box vs. Google Drive: Choosing a File Storage for Your Business

As businesses move more and more towards the digital workplace, choosing a file storage solution that fits your unique needs is essential. But since there are too many options in the market, we're about to oppose Box vs. Google Drive to highlight their differences and similarities and make it easier to choose between them. Both are cloud-based platforms that provide businesses with storage space, collaboration tools, and top-notch security features.

What is Azure Zone Redundant Storage?

When it comes to storing data in the cloud, ensuring high availability and durability is of utmost importance. Azure Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) is a feature offered by Microsoft Azure that provides local and geographic redundancy for your data, ensuring maximum data protection and minimal downtime. In this article, we will delve into the details of Azure ZRS, its benefits, and how to use it effectively.

Grafana Agent v0.32 release: New integrations with Oracle, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and more

Grafana Agent v0.32 is now available! This release includes a host of new integrations for the Grafana Agent and components for Grafana Agent Flow so you can easily monitor your vital infrastructure. We’re also excited to announce that Flow is no longer in beta. Introduced last fall, Flow is a new configuration mode that makes Grafana Agent easier and more powerful to run.

How Tenacta Group uses Icinga

Tenacta Group is an Italian company with a portfolio of worldwide leading brands that share the same mission: to develop designs and technological innovations that will improve people’s quality of life. We have been using Icinga since its early days, specifically version 1 after the fork from Nagios. We have continued using Icinga because we like its direction for future improvements and appreciate the support of the Icinga community.

The Ultimate Guide to Website Monitoring for Small Businesses

As a small business owner, you know that a website is the backbone of your online presence. It's where potential customers go to find out more about your products or services and eventually choose to make a purchase. Besides that, it also significantly impacts your online presence and search engine rankings. But what happens when your website goes down? Or when it's running slow? This can negatively affect your business's growth, so you must always be aware of it.

Using Deduplication for Eventually Consistent Transactions

Deduplication is an effective alternative to transactions for eventually consistent use cases of a distributed database. Here’s why. Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and performance from databases.

Top 6 Tips for Improving MTTx

In our research for the inaugural State of Availability Report, we asked 1,900 engineers about mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to recovery (MTTR) as two leading incident management Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) strongly associated with availability. We learned that less than 15% of respondents are tracking their MTTD. It takes twice as long to discover an issue than it does to resolve it.

Forrester report: ServiceNow debuts as a Strong Performer in RPA

I’m incredibly thrilled to share that, in our very first year of entry, ServiceNow has been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Robotic Process Automation, Q1 2023. We believe this validates the impact of our product vision and current capabilities in this market. More importantly, we think it’s proof that our customers are reaching their business goals.

How CloudZero Unlocks Kubernetes Costs Better Than Anyone

For SaaS companies, cloud spending can mean the difference between profit and loss. Staying on top of cloud spend is an absolutely crucial part of running a healthy cloud-based business. But tracking even the relatively straightforward cloud costs from your primary providers can be tricky.