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If treated well, the database can be a major accelerator in your business’s efficiency. It can be the star performer in your migration to the cloud, in your move to micro services and other change initiatives. If the right factors aren’t in place, though, the database can become a business risk. You could be at risk of losing new and existing customers to the competition due to poor UX, downtime or outages. It can also increase your vulnerability to data breaches. Find out how the database can be the hero in your digital transformation or change initiative.

With digitization adopted in many industries, real-time data from manufacturing and operational equipment can be used to monitor and optimize operation - by applying data-driven modeling including machine learning. In this video you learn how you can automatically monitor equipment and connected devices, and apply predictive modeling to optimize operations (OT). With this approach, manufacturers and grid operators reduce downtime and save maintenance cost by scheduling equipment maintenance just when needed, connected consumer and wearable medical devices are monitored remotely, and transportation providers optimize operation of their fleets.

Protecting your business-critical data has never been more important in today’s world. With ransomware attacks steadily on the rise, understanding and implementing backup and recovery best practices is essential to staying ahead of the curve. Join us as we dive into key best practices and strategies designed to protect your data initially, and help you recover what’s important in case a disaster strikes, like a ransomware attack.

What was the ANCIENT SECRET hidden within one company’s IT estate? In this Tech Confession, hear how an entire payroll system was at the mercy of one admin’s “voodoo” techniques to provide payment via seriously antiquated hardware and software. What were the risks? Keeping the system cranking was a ticklish proposition: Accidentally running an OS update once put the productivity of the whole organization at risk. That was just one of the hazards of running a key process on a hidden device that was invisible to the network.

Developer experience and productivity are top-of-mind this year as organizations sharpen a focus on engineering efficiency. In a bid to become the central hub for developer interactions, internal developer portals (IDPs) have landed on the short list of priorities for engineering teams in every industry. But with just a few years on the shelf, many IDP programs are beginning to fail or flail. Why?

Log management and analytics are typically used to troubleshoot and resolve system issues. But since log data is collected from so many tools and systems across the organization, this means that log analytics can span across the business for multiple uses and multiple teams.

MSP experts discuss the potential impacts of #AI on their organizations and their customers at #EmpowerPrague.

This Fantasy Football dashboard shows the Cash League (league with cash prizes) and Tim's performance in it, so he can always see where he is in relation to first place. Tim decided it was time to put SquaredUp to work on his personal passion and build a dashboard that allows him to consume the information at a glance. All the data is pulled from the FPL Web API and includes monitoring to get the colors to show whether he's doing well or not.

Watch the full clip here. Ivanti’s research into remote work trends found that while 43% of office workers are allowed to work flexibly, 71% say they want to. Why is that 28-point preference gap still with us even after several years of widespread – and widely successful – remote and hybrid work? What barriers are keeping leaders from chipping away at that preference gap, and why should they?

See the OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD reason why one company’s software was “running like a dog.” And how to control your IT estate before it controls you. All it takes is one person abusing your systems, or one unsecured endpoint, to create risk and bottlenecks for everyone. In the era of Everywhere Work, it’s vital to have total visibility into every corner of your IT estate so you can identify risk, correct inefficiencies, control costs and maximize performance.