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Welcome to the Fall 2022 edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.

It may seem like ancient history, but there was a time when telecommunications companies only had to worry about connecting customers over landlines. Today, their businesses depend on vast cellular networks to not only provide strong wireless phone coverage in countless locations, but also handle the demands of tablets, computers, and machine-to-machine communications.

As a Upsun customer, your protection is paramount and every single one of your projects is secure. For Enterprise and Elite customer projects we go the extra mile and offer a rich selection of enhanced security features, which can be used right now. Let’s dig into each of them.

Cyber security has continued to gain importance worldwide as hacking and malware threats are rising. Global losses associated with hacking and cybercrime reached $1 trillion in 2020, which has inspired the expansion of the information security industry, with revenue projected to hit more than $170 billion in 2022. As a publicly traded data security firm, CyberArk offers identity management services to protect your company.

Data costs fill a large column in many organizations’ accounting sheets. Data pipeline setup and management is a large time sink for DevOps, IT, and SRE. Setting up telemetry pipelines to reduce unwanted data often takes even more time that could better be spent creating value rather than reducing costs. This blog will show you one way to quickly set up your data pipeline to filter unnecessary telemetry data.

Your phone buzzes with an incoming text message right when you’re about to start dinner. Inconvenient, but better than a 3 am call. It’s an Uptime.com Alert, and if you want to clear it before your dinner gets cold you need the right tools for investigation… If that scenario sounds familiar to you, then you’re in good (if tired) company.

Each year, SolarWinds publishes the IT Trends report, a collection of responses to survey questions meant to gain insight into the world of IT. I enjoy the IT Trends report for a variety of reasons, but my favorite reason is because I get to examine the raw data and draw conclusions! While reviewing the data and findings this year, I noted the demographic data collected included the number of years of IT experience for the survey respondents.

We know there are a couple of dashboard solutions for which integration with SCOM can or could be created. However none of them integrates better and more easily than SquaredUp Dashboard Server for SCOM. It integrates with the SCOM platform out-of-the-box, leverages the SCOM object model to the fullest and is very easy to create dashboards with. For most use cases you do not even have to create dashboards, as the product comes with many out-of-the-box community dashboard packs.