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The telecommunications world is in the middle of its fourth industrial revolution. Organisations are trying to bring out as many new services as possible to monetise their infrastructure, but despite their modern approach, they still own and maintain legacy — and most importantly — multi-vendor infrastructures. Due to complex organisational structures and decentralised management systems, most responsibilities are divided between multiple departments.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is a new security technology that promises to change the way security organizations operate, and introduce important efficiencies to day-to-day processes. In particular, XDR is expected to have a huge impact on incident response teams. In this article, we’ll explain the basics of XDR, show how it addresses incident response challenges, and how it can transform traditional processes in the SOC.

Kubernetes has become the de-facto standard for deploying microservices and containerized applications. Still, there is a learning curve for a developer to get familiar with Kubernetes concepts and objects, how to write and manage the required YAML files, etc. While there is undoubtedly value in learning these concepts and tasks, I believe there is even greater value in getting your applications deployed faster and spending more time on your application code than on infrastructure-related objects.

The Nexthink Library allows IT teams to extend and tailor their Nexthink Experience platform to cater to their specific business, IT and employee initiatives. By leveraging over 100+ out-of-the-box content packs and integration, users can use actionable content to overcome some of the most common IT challenges with ready-to-use dashboards, metrics, Engage campaigns, remote actions, targeted insights and more.

In this new series of Now on Now stories, we share how we use ServiceNow products internally to transform our operations and create great experiences. We hope our stories will inspire our customers and partners to harvest even more business value and resiliency from the Now Platform®. For more information, visit the Now on Now Workflows Book of Knowledge.

With a turbulent year and 2020 coming to its end, I’d like to thank you for your continued interest in my blog posts. In my last .conf talks I received a lot of positive feedback combined with the ask to have more posts with such content, so thanks for motivating me and here we go! Recently, my colleague Dimitris wrote about how you can set up DLTK on a AWS GPU Instance.

The Splunk Augmented Reality (AR) team is excited to share more with you. In our first AR post, "Splunk AR: Taking Remote Collaboration To The Future is Already Here," from .conf20, we talked about our new Remote Collaboration feature, which helps field workers and remote experts collaborate in AR. In today’s post, we'll talk about our advancements in Object Detection. This new feature makes it even easier to deploy Splunk AR with your assets.

This part 2 of a 3-part series on running ELK on Kubernetes with ECK. If you’re just getting started, make sure to checkout Part 1.

A typical modern DevOps pipeline includes eight major stages, and unfortunately, a release bottleneck can appear at any point: These may slow down productivity and limit a company’s ability to progress. This could damage their reputation, especially if a bug fix needs to be immediately deployed into production. This article will cover three key ways using data gathered from your DevOps pipeline can help you find and alleviate bottlenecks in your DevOps pipeline.

Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed document store and search engine that stores and retrieves data structures. As a distributed tool, Elasticsearch is highly scalable and offers advanced search capabilities. All of this adds up to a tool which can support a multitude of critical business needs and use cases. To follow are ten of the key Elasticsearch configurations are the most critical to get right when setting up and running your instance.