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SQL Server Problems? Try These Tips First

When SQL Server is having performance issues, giving you error messages, or just running slowly, you need to figure out the root cause of the problem before making any changes. Don’t jump to conclusions—make sure you get a big-picture view of the issue. Start with these five troubleshooting tips to optimize your SQL Server performance.

9 Things We Learned From the Digital Workspace Survey

The Digital Workspace Survey conducted by eG Innovations and xenappblog is one of the largest surveys of its kind, generating over 1,050 responses from IT professionals around the world. 62% of the respondents worked for organizations using digital workspaces for their employees. The remainder came from various types of organizations providing support for digital workspaces. Below are just a few highlights from the report which is packed with insights.

Monitoring custom metrics with Netreo

All too frequently system administrators and developers need to keep an eye on critical signals generated by their production systems. However, if these signals are highly specific in nature, tracking them can be tough. Most monitoring systems stick to tracking standard metrics emitted by servers hosting applications. But what happens if you need to monitor a number of specific customers that have signed up in the last hour and custom metrics?

How To Instantly Boost the ROI of Your Hybrid Cloud

Advertising tycoon David Ogilvy famously remarked, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Replace the word “half” with “one-third” and “advertising” with “public cloud” and you’d describe what enterprises are grappling with right now. They know that not all of the cloud resources they’re paying for are being used, but they don’t know which ones those are.

Sumo Logic joins AWS to accelerate Amazon CloudWatch Metrics collection

We are excited to join AWS for the launch of Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams; a fully managed, scalable, and low latency service that streams Amazon CloudWatch metrics to partners via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. AWS and Sumo Logic customers can now leverage AWS Kinesis Firehose for Metrics Source for streaming CloudWatch metrics into their Sumo Logic accounts, to help simplify the monitoring and troubleshooting of AWS infrastructure, services, and applications.

The new Google algorithm update and what you need to do before May

In May 2021, Google will be putting their new algorithm live which will have a direct impact on your page rankings in their search engine. Unfortunately, no one can hide from this new algorithm change, it will affect everyone who owns a website, especially those that don’t adhere to the new changes that are coming. Google’s update is to further improve user experience on the web.

On-boarding Remote Workers with Service Watch

It’s been more than half a year since I joined Exoprise. When Covid-19 struck last year, it became clear that companies would expand their hiring requirements beyond local regions and find suitable candidates (just like me!). Remote work and the requirement for on-boarding remote workers no longer became a luxury. This is reflected in job portals and HR sites such as Indeed and Glassdoor where they began to insert a new tag “Remote WFH Option Available”.

Upgrades to SCOM Made Easy with Easy Tune - Deep Dive

It can be hard to move tuning between Management Groups when implementing a side-by-side upgrade, especially when you have an old chaotic Management Group where overrides aren't always stored in logical places. In this video, we show you how Easy Tune Enterprise can help with this migration process by capturing effective overrides from wherever they are stored (as CSV files) and then using Easy Tune to apply these to your new SCOM Management Group.

Upgrades to SCOM Made Easy with Easy Tune - 7 Minute Guide

It can be hard to move tuning between Management Groups when implementing a side-by-side upgrade, especially when you have an old chaotic Management Group where overrides aren't always stored in logical places. In this video, we show you how Easy Tune Enterprise can help with this migration process by capturing effective overrides from wherever they are stored (as CSV files) and then using Easy Tune to apply these to your new SCOM Management Group.

The Untapped Power of Key Marketing Metrics

Marketing and Site Reliability teams rarely meet in most organizations. It’s especially rare outside the context of product marketing sessions or content creation. With observability now pivotal to success, we should be looking to bring the two together for technical and commercial gains. In this piece, we’re going to explore the meaning of observability and its relevance to marketing metrics.