Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The Business Case for Docker Adoption

Container technology is considered one of the most rapidly evolving in the software industry's recent history. There has been a seismic shift towards more and more organizations adopting containerization for their applications. Containers offer a lightweight, portable, and more efficient alternative to virtual machines and help us run software securely and reliably across different server environments.

Automating Notification & Response with Notification & Collaboration Tools

With the ScienceLogic SL1 platform correlating and contextualizing data to generate actionable events that accurately reflect the issues that need attention, how do you make sure all your engineers and system admins are on the same page?

Datadog Cloud Security Platform

Datadog's Cloud Security Platform—consisting of Cloud SIEM, Posture Management, and Workload Security—delivers real-time threat detection and continuous configuration audits across your applications, hosts, containers, and cloud infrastructure. Datadog derives security insights from your observability data, enabling security and DevOps teams to work together to detect, investigate, and remediate threats.

How managed service provider CTAC onboards customers at lightning speed

As a managed service provider, CTAC provides all kinds of IT services for its clients. Efficient monitoring is crucial for them: that way, they can stay on top of performance issues within their customer's IT environments and, eventually, keep their customers happy. However, because CTAC works with many different clients and platforms (such as Microsoft and SAP), their monitoring is often very siloed - which makes it difficult to get an overall view of the performance and health of their customers' IT services.

A modern data stack for startups

Nowadays, easy access to data is table-stakes for high-performing companies. Easy access doesn't come for free, though: it requires investment and a careful selection of tools. For young companies like us, the question is how much? And when do you make that investment? Having grown to ten people, several without engineering backgrounds but with strong data needs, we decided 2022 was going to be that time.

How FinTechs can ramp up data security in 2022

We now have ever-expanding digital identities to live our daily lives and, whether it’s crossing international borders or more innocuously buying basic products and services, our digital footprint is growing. With the increasing requirement to have a digital identity to do just about anything, our data is constantly being shared online. That said, the demands on FinTech companies to keep personally identifiable information (PII) safe are more pressing than ever.

An introduction to the Avantra SUSE hardening Add in

Included with Avantra Enterprise edition, Avantra Add ins are pre-packaged best practice scenarios that accelerate your business time to value using our expertise. One such Add in is SUSE hardening and is based on the hardening guide from the makers of SUSE Enterprise Linux. This Add in is a collection of eight custom checks that are designed to be extensible by you to match your organizational requirements.

Nash's Four Favorite Firmware Debug Tools

As much as I enjoy writing firmware, I am, at heart, a hardware engineer. I love hunting for minutia in chip datasheets. I love fiddling with eval boards, tacking on wires, and reworking nets together. I love flipping through The Art of Electronics, finding a new circuit, and piecing through its operation. This is why, when invited to write for Interrupt, I jumped at the chance to write about a hardware-related topic that’s near and dear to my heart: debug tools.