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From Baud to Awed: The History of the Modem

From 300 baud to multiple gigabits per second, it’s time to celebrate the history of the modem. It occurs to me that we will soon be entering a period where no one will remember the ear-shredding screech of a dial-up modem connecting their computers to the internet—all the while hoping no one picks up the phone and wrecks it. The humble modem is, at least as a device sitting on your desk alongside your computer, largely consigned to history—and more than a few recycling centers.

ServiceNow deepens commitment to hybrid work with new wayfinding technology

Companies shifting to permanent hybrid work environments are up against major challenges, including additional investment in new physical experiences for employees. This is complex and expensive. It involves bringing together systems, technology, and teams that have historically been siloed. But with every challenge comes an incredible opportunity to make work better.

How to install a Site24x7 APM Insight Java agent in Tomcat Server 6.x and above on Linux?

This video walks you through the steps for installing the Site24x7 APM Insight Java agent on an Apache Tomcat server. With the #Site24x7 #APM Insight Java agent installed, you can monitor your entire application, track every transaction that occurs, discover transaction errors, and optimize transactions before your end users are impacted.

5 Executive Blindspots Around Hybrid IT Observability

For tech leaders, staying on top of hybrid and multi-cloud complexity with traditional monitoring tools is not easy task -- and can create distinct visibility gaps across your environments. SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability can help put you on the path to better business outcomes.

The Power of Elastic

As the leading platform for search-powered solutions, we help everyone — organizations, their employees, and their customers — find what they need faster, while keeping mission-critical applications running smoothly, and protecting against cyber threats. When you tap into the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, you’re in good company with organizations like Netflix, Uber, Slack, Microsoft, and thousands of others who rely on us to advance their business. We’d love to help you, too. Together, let’s accelerate the results that matter.

Scaling Grafana Mimir to 500 million active series on customer infrastructure with Grafana Enterprise Metrics

At Grafana Labs, we’ve seen an increasing number of customers who are scraping hundreds of millions of active time series but need a solution to reliably store and query such a huge amount of data. So in March, we announced our new open source TSDB, Grafana Mimir, the most scalable, most performant open source time series database in the world.

How Downtime Can Affect Morale, And What You Can Do About It

Does the worst case scenario for your company include alert fatigue from false alarms? Maybe it should. No one likes a false positive when it comes to infrastructure monitoring, and false flags are especially irritating because you have to respond to a problem that doesn’t actually exist. Just how bad are false positives? Let’s break down what these annoying little mistakes add up to for your team. You might be surprised to learn just how much they are hurting your DevOps pipeline.

Introducing our brand new (and free!) Calico Azure Course

Calico Open Source is an industry standard for container security and networking that offers high-performance cloud-native scalability and supports Kubernetes workloads, non-Kubernetes workloads, and legacy workloads. Created and maintained by Tigera, Calico Open Source offers a wide range of support for your choice of data plane whether it’s Windows, eBPF, Linux, or VPP. We’re excited to announce our new certification course for Azure, Certified Calico Operator: Azure Expert!

Best Agile Certifications for IT Professionals in 2022

Making time and resources available for learning, development, and certifications are some of the most important ways to help improve employee engagement within IT organizations. In addition to helping you attract and retain talent, team members with specific certifications bring technical knowledge and skills to your operation that can vastly improve efficiency and aid in your overall operations.