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Self Service BI with Power BI

Self-service business intelligence is an advanced approach to data analytics enabling users to process and explore data sets even without much data analytics expertise like data mining and statistical analysis models. Self-service BI with Power BI allow business users to prepare, sort, analyze and visualize data without involving any technical support.

The number one business bad habit MSPs need to stop doing immediately

The N-able Head Security Nerd, Lewis Pope, just published a blog outlining the top 25 cybersecurity bad practices demonstrated by MSPs today. To accompany his post, I wanted to add one more risky bad habit to his list. It’s something I commonly see being practiced by too many MSPs from a business perspective—allowing a customer’s budget to dictate what a cybersecurity offering should look like.

25 cybersecurity bad practices: more than just bad habits

The CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) recently started an initiative to create a catalogue of exceptionally risky cybersecurity bad practices. While this will be a welcome and very useful tool once it is complete, only two practices are currently listed. Since cybersecurity and business decisions can be time-sensitive, we wanted to expand on the CISA’s list.

Announcing our $6M investment to double down on IT incident and Reliability needs

When Squadcast was founded back in 2018, we had a concise yet clear goal—we wanted to make it as easy as possible for companies to manage their IT incident and reliability needs. In the spirit of continuing that mission, today I’m excited to announce our $6M fundraise led by DNX Ventures and backed by Wipro Ventures, Nexus Ventures, and Chiratae Ventures. We’re also pleased to announce the addition of DNX and Q Motiwala to our Board of Directors.

Gremlin Chaos Engineering Practitioner Certificate Prep Session

Looking to become one of the world’s first Gremlin-certified Chaos Engineering Practitioners? Find everything you need to prepare for the exam during our prep session! Get an in-depth understanding of exactly what you need to focus on in order to pass the Gremlin Chaos Engineering Practitioner Certificate exam.

The Evolving World of GitOps and Observability

Is GitOps changing observability as we know it? GitOps has been the buzz word in the DevOps space for several years. GitOps, to those that are not familiar, is an operational methodology for DevOps that leverages a continuous deployment approach with Git as the single source of ‘truth’ for declarative control over both infrastructure and applications.