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Press Release: Sentry Application Monitoring Achieves 200% Increase in Enterprise Growth Scaling to a Total of 18K+ Paid Customers

Sentry, the market leader in application monitoring, announced 200% growth with enterprise customers, scaling to a total of 18,000 paid customers. The company’s cloud, open-source, and single-tenant offerings now support more than 50,000 teams and 1 million developers globally, including Microsoft, Atlassian, Disney, Nike, Cloudflare, Autodesk, PayPal, Reddit, Peloton and many more of the world’s most well-known brands.

Key security functions of unified endpoint management

As part of digital transformation, the adoption of a wide range of devices for work is on the rise. A unified endpoint management (UEM) solution is capable of enforcing management policies and configurations, as well as securing endpoints. In a previous blog, we reviewed the capabilities of a good UEM solution. In this instalment, we look at UEM security features.

Transaction Monitoring | Upgrades and Use Cases in 2020

Synthetic monitoring takes care of all of the small interactions on our website that QA can’t catch. If you’re building an application for the web, a transaction check is an integral part of proactive downtime resolution. What we call transaction monitoring, or a transaction check, is a set of instructions that a probe server follows.

G Suite: Driving usage, adoption and satisfaction | Product Demo

Discover how Nexthink complements hard technical metrics with user sentiment data to truly understand employees’ experiences of their G Suite usage, enabling IT to take data-led action and engage with employees to improve their overall usage, adoption and satisfaction of the service.

Canary deployments for IT operations

This article originally appeared in Jaxcenter. Canary deployments are a commonly-used DevOps practice for staggered rollouts, sending small updates to groups in order to catch and fix issues. Ultimately, experimenting with DevOps practices such as canary deployments can help IT (and IT operations) bridge the gap with the business and deliver more value, faster.

The World's Smallest InfluxDB Server

I’ve built a lot of InfluxDB servers in my time here, and I’ve built some pretty esoteric ones at that, but I think I’ve finally pulled off what can only be described as the World’s Smallest InfluxDB Server! Back in the summer of 2019, I saw a project on CrowdSupply.com for something called the ‘Giant Board’. It looked really, really cool! A complete Single Board Computer (SBC) that ran Linux, all in a Feather form factor. I immediately backed it!

Application Compatibility Issues Make OS Migration a Headache for 75% of IT Professionals

New findings released by SolarWinds, following a survey of just under 200 IT pros via its THWACK community platform, reveal that most IT professionals migrating OS due to Windows 7 EOL expect it to cause a myriad of problems.