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Forrester names Freshworks a 'Strong Performer' in the 2021 Enterprise Service Management (ESM) evaluation

Enterprise Service Management (ESM) has time and again proven that many of ITSM’s best practices have applicability beyond IT. The global pandemic and the corporate need for digital workflow enablements have accelerated the growth of companies adopting ESM in 2021. Wider adoption of the technology continues to be imminent as organizations pursue to extend the core IT service desk practices to other lines of business.

Log4j Log4Shell Vulnerability: All You Need To Know

On December 9, 2021, a researcher from the Alibaba Cloud Security Team dropped a zero-day remote code execution exploit on Twitter, targeting the extremely popular log4j logging framework for Java. Since then, the trivially exploitable (weaponized PoCs are available publicly) and extremely popular library has reportedly been massively exploited and has gotten wide coverage on media and social networks.

Speed vs Uptime | Where to Focus This Holiday Season

Revenue and consumer confidence are at stake this holiday season for brands worldwide. Shoppers are on the prowl for deals, and their predator instincts hunt for bargains in milliseconds. Google cites convenience, price, and availability as the top three reasons why consumers choose to shop online. Today’s online shopping has built an expectation for ease of use, and consumers have evolved into apex shoppers.

What does a DevOps Engineer do? We analyzed 29 job postings to find out.

Introduction As all companies become software driven, DevOps is becoming an important practice in enterprises and startups across the world. DevOps is about bringing velocity to delivering tech products and services, so you can delight customers and meet business goals. To achieve this velocity, development (dev) and operations (ops) teams work closely together across the software lifecycle - from planning to release. And this has led to a new role in engineering teams - DevOps Engineer.

Our $350M funding round will accelerate our cloud and container security momentum into global scale

I am excited to announce today that we have raised an additional $350M at a valuation of $2.5B, more than doubling our valuation and bringing our cumulative funding since inception to ~$750M. This funding reflects investor conviction in our ability to be the dominant cloud and container security platform, and brings us closer to our vision of helping every organization to confidently run modern, cloud-native applications.

Apache Log4j vulnerability and VMware

Apache Log4j, an open-source logging software used in everything from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, has a severe security vulnerability that has security teams all over the world working frantically to correct it. The internet has been on high alert as hackers increase their efforts to target vulnerable systems, owing to its broad use.

11 Best Bugsnag Alternative You Should Try

Bugsnag is a stability error monitoring solution which captures unhandled exceptions, diagnostic data, and version information in browser, mobile and server-side applications via open source SDKs for 50+ software platforms. By default, Bugsnag libraries capture all crashes (handled exceptions are optional), version numbers, and session information to help engineering teams proactively surface issues and save time fixing bugs.