Oracle Database remains a global leader in database management, valued for its power and enterprise-level features. It is often the default choice for managing large databases and handling complex transactions, despite its complexity and cost. Effective tools for working with Oracle Database can significantly ease the workload for specialists. Both Oracle Corporation and various third-party vendors have developed a range of solutions designed for diverse database-related tasks in Oracle environments.

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, service reliability is not just a technical challenge—it’s a critical business need. Downtime can cost organizations millions, and customer trust is easily lost but difficult to regain. Service Reliability Management (SRM) emerges as the cornerstone of delivering consistent and dependable services that meet both customer expectations and business goals.

We are excited to announce the release of NiCE NetApp ONTAP Management Pack 1.1 for Microsoft SCOM and Azure Monitor SCOM MI! This new version delivers enhanced monitoring capabilities and expanded features designed to optimize your NetApp ONTAP storage environment.

I had a fantastic opportunity to sit with Ben Good of Google and Rich Prillinger of Mezmo and participate in the discussion about the new DORA 2024 report. The 10th edition of the DORA report covers the impact of AI on software development, explores platform engineering’s promises and challenges, and emphasizes developer experience and stable priorities for success.

As networks become more complex, the demand for automation has surged. There has been a huge uptick in the concept of autonomous networks—a transformative model redefining how telecom and IT networks operate. But what are they, and why are they essential for today’s digital-first world? Let’s break it down.

Many businesses rely on cloud infrastructure to power their software solutions. The cloud today makes it easier than ever to create services and components, increasingly the complexity of software. With more and often smaller processes, cloud-native architectures have driven the need for better insights into our software—a way to look into how these processes fit together.

Microsoft has officially released Windows Server 2025 for general availability in early November, 2024. While this update has been expected for a long time, we want to cover the five major changes that have been rolled out with this release. Before we start with the features, let's start with two important questions that need to be addressed. Does Site24x7's server monitoring agent support Windows Server 2025? Yes. Our server monitoring agents work on Windows Server 2025.

It happens often that an application, when running on bare metal, performs well. However, after the application is packed into an image, tested on Docker/Podman, then migrated to Kubernetes, performance plummets. With an increasing number of database calls issued by the application, the application response times increase. This common situation is often due to data transfer induced I/O delays.