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4 Smart Investment Opportunities to Make the Most Out of Your Money

In a world where rising costs of living and inflation often outpace the interest rates you might expect from your savings account, it's far better to make your money work for you than to leave it to stagnate. When it comes to investing your money, a diversified portfolio is often the best option. Low-risk, long-term investments can earn you a regular income of dividends over time, whereas higher-risk investments provide opportunities to make a lot of money, albeit with more risk of losing your cash. Here are a few ways to build your investment portfolio so you can make your money work for you.

Notes from the Field: XenServer falling back to file-based licensing when using LAS

Citrix has been transitioning products toward License Access Service (LAS) as the modern licensing method. Unlike traditional file-based licensing, LAS introduces service-based communication between products and the Citrix License Server. As of 15 April 2026, LAS becomes the mandatory licensing method for supported products. Environments still relying on file-based licensing will need to transition before that date.

Microsoft SCOM Tips & Tricks

This one is for all the Microsoft SCOM geeks out there — 99 practical tips & tricks to make managing SCOM way easier. The tips compiled here draw from community experts, SCOM-focused blogs, Microsoft’s official documentation, and the hands-on experience at NiCE. You may already know some of them, but having them all organized in one place makes it easy to reference and put them into practice.

Almaden Achieves SOC 2 Type II Compliance

At Almaden, our mission has always been simple: help organizations deliver exceptional digital employee experiences with confidence. Today, we’re proud to share a major milestone in that commitment. Almaden, Inc. has successfully achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance. This accomplishment reflects not just a security checkbox, but a rigorous independent validation of how we protect our customers’ data every single day.

I let Claude investigate a production incident with Honeybadger's MCP server

In this demo, Kevin shows how you can use Honeybadger's MCP server with Claude to investigate a production incident — going from a natural language prompt to a complete incident dashboard in minutes. Honeybadger is an application health monitoring platform that helps developers catch errors, track performance, and stay on top of incidents. The MCP server lets AI assistants like Claude query your Honeybadger data directly, so you can investigate issues conversationally without digging through dashboards manually.

Monitoring and Optimizing a Hybrid Cloud Environment | WhatsUp Gold

This webinar focuses on Monitoring and Optimizing a Hybrid Cloud Environment. Downtime is an expensive inconvenience. Yet many IT teams still face monitoring blackouts due to rigid licensing models and outdated failover strategies. In this session, we’ll introduce a smarter approach: High Availability by Design. Whether you're scaling operations or modernizing infrastructure, this session will enable you with the tools and insights to build a resilient, future-ready monitoring strategy.