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All You Need To Know About Multi-Cloud Security

A recent study from Juniper Research predicts the value of enterprise cybersecurity spend will continue to climb, exceeding $226 billion in 2027; up from $179 billion in 2022. This growth of 26% over the next five years reflects a rising awareness of vulnerabilities, not least of which is DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) as a key driver behind the increasing spend.

Observation Is More than Monitoring | Discovering Observability: Session 2

You’re ready to take the leap and move your existing Orion Platform infrastructure to Hybrid Cloud Observability, but we know you’ll have questions. So, we’ve put together some people who can answer these questions in a way that’s easily digestible for current Orion Platform users.

Network Configuration, Monitoring and Management Explained

Network configuration entails setting up your network to support local or remote network communication. This configuration allows for wired or wireless connection and entails the installation of network hardware, software, and devices. In this article, let’s take a look at network configuration, including the benefits, various types and tools, and how to monitor and manage the network.

Latest Updates in the HAProxy Data Plane API - Chad Lavoie - HAProxyConf 2021

The HAProxy Data Plane API now has the ability to get backends from AWS tags and Consul, upload SSL certificates, and other features that make it fit into modern configurations. In this presentation we will provide a brief introduction to the HAProxy Data Plane API and cover some of these new features in more depth.

Fostering Fearlessness: Working in the Middle of the Day Instead of the Middle of the Night

There’s no shortage of articles on CI/CD and how to run a configuration validation utility before reloading or restarting a service, but this type of validation is not the same as acceptance testing. Furthermore, these validations don’t always give you (or your leadership team) the confidence to allow you to make big changes to your Production Infrastructure during normal business hours, often preferring to err on the side of caution and scheduling a maintenance window when you might prefer to be in bed.

All About the SNMPwalk: What It Is, How to Run It

As we know, asset management is one of the crucial elements in IT service management. To deliver services consistently and ensure a high quality of services, it is important to keep the devices and the IT infrastructure running smoothly. Failures in critical devices can cause costly service disruptions and therefore it is important to constantly monitor device parameters and maintain them regularly.

Annual Study: Hybrid IT Acceleration Has Increased Network Complexity and Lowered Tech Pros' Network Management Confidence

SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2022-Getting IT Right: Managing Hybrid IT Complexity examines the current state and areas of opportunity for technology professionals managing increased complexity as hybrid IT accelerates. The continued shift to hybrid IT drives increased levels of IT management complexity, but tech pros feel a lack of confidence in how to best manage it. Nearly half (44%) of tech pros said their organization manages hybrid IT complexity through training staff and adopting IT monitoring/management tools (37%)