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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.
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?
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.
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.
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”.
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.