Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we highlight the urgent need for ethical AI due to increased adoption of AI enabled technologies by businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

At SCOMathon 2020, SquaredUp Founder & CEO Richard Benwell shared his top 5 tips for SCOM success in the APAC Keynote: A Manifesto for SCOM Success. We’ve put it together in this article in case you missed the talk.

Covid-19 has forced IT leaders across the world to rethink and strategize their plans and investments. Despite the economic downturn, surveys have indicated that digital transformation initiatives are still moving forward. Meanwhile ensuring infrastructure resilience and workforce productivity are primary challenges which IT leaders face to survive.

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a software component allowing to run Linux applications directly on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 starting from August 2016. There are several software projects aimed at running/porting certain GNU/Linux applications to Windows, most known being Cygwin and Minfw-w64.

Figuring out the best data layout for InfluxDB v2 is important in optimizing the resources used by InfluxDB, as well as improving ingestion rates and the performance of queries and tasks. You also want to consider developer and user experience (UX). This post will walk you through developing a schema for an IoT application example and answer the following questions.

With networks continually scaling to meet business needs, advanced IP scanning has become a crucial task for network admins to ensure network availability and performance. Scanning IP addresses can be challenging in large networks, which often include wired and wireless devices with dynamic IPs, multiple DNS, DHCP configurations, and complex subnets.

The ITOM podcast returns with yet another episode aimed to alleviate all your remote work woes. In the last episode, we drilled into the nuances of VPN security, encryption, hashing algorithms, certification authorities, and much more. Now we’ll discuss the practical implications of VPNs on remote work. VPNs have become many organizations’ best bet to help maintain business continuity in this era of remote work.