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Last week Sumo Logic announced our new Observability Suite, which included the public introduction of the closed beta for our distributed tracing capabilities as part of our Microservices Observability solution. This new solution will provide end-to-end visibility into user transactions across services, as well as seamless integration into performance metrics and logs to accelerate issue resolution and root-cause analysis. In this blog, we’ll explore the new solution in detail.

ChaosSearch is excited to announce its new integration with Opsgenie — Atlassian’s alerting and incident management platform. Using this integration, your teams can leverage the industry’s most powerful and comprehensive data monitoring and analytics capabilities channeled into a unified workflow through Opsgenie’s easy-to-use interface.

Ransomware is a malicious type of software that’s used to extort money from victims. It almost always promises to restore the data it encrypts or the operating system it locks, in exchange for a large sum of money. Networks seem to face threats from all directions, but there are ways to prevent malware attacks. Specialized software can protect your assets. In addition, there are other steps you can take to strengthen your ransomware prevention best practices.

Stackery is focused on helping developers leverage the power of AWS managed services. Our secure delivery platform is used to ship Lambda functions, HTTP Gateways, Aurora database clusters, and many more services which you can view usage of in Anna’s blog on the topic. Recently, I noticed an emerging workload running on our platform: the JAMstack. That’s a term for web applications composed primarily of JavaScript, APIs, and Markup.

We live in a high-tech society that has made many things possible. Today, small e-commerce businesses can sell to people wearing their pajamas half a world away. No longer does a business need a storefront to be successful. If you have an in-demand product, you can sell from anywhere with much less on-hand inventory and overhead than you would have needed not long ago. E-commerce has turned dreamers into successful entrepreneurs, and there's no looking back.

Focus on what matters with instant visibility into the condition of your backup application and detailed analytics to quickly pinpoint where any issues lie. IBM’s backup monster, Spectrum Protect (TSM as we called back in the day), sucks. Not because the software sucks – it’s actually the best there is – but because backups suck in general. It’s the quintessential necessary evil of IT.

Deloitte had a problem to solve. It’s the world’s largest professional services company, with 300,000 employees in 150 countries and territories around the world. The firm’s leadership recognized that as demands on its workforce increased, inconsistent approaches to service management were impeding Deloitte’s ability to consolidate and scale worldwide. Deloitte addressed this and other growth issues by adopting the Now Platform as a foundation of its digital transformation.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on our working lives. Companies have adopted by transforming their workforce to work remotely through video conferencing software. Cisco’s Webex Meetings, one of the most popular video conference softwares, plays a critical role in helping employees stay connected, enhance collaboration and drive productivity.

Amazon Web Services provides its users with the ability to create temporary credentials via the use of AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS). These temporary credentials work pretty much in the same manner like permanent credentials created from AWS IAM Service. There are however two differences.