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This July, the community spirit was profoundly vibrant in the scenic city of Munich, as Kubernetes Community Day (KCD) Munich brought together a meeting of minds and inspired the open-source collaboration we all know and love. The event was a testament to the strength and vitality of the Kubernetes community, which pulsed with an energy of shared intellectual curiosity and passion for all things Kubernetes.

When working with sensitive data, there’s no skimping on security. Keeping data protected and private is paramount at Cribl, which is why we prioritized building a robust framework for Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and with this latest release, we created an authorization system across the entire Cribl suite. WOOHOO!!

Data has become an essential asset for businesses, driving innovation, improving decision-making, and shaping the future. But how does one effectively manage this valuable resource? This is where Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) comes in — a comprehensive approach to managing data throughout its lifecycle. This blog post will guide you through the ins and outs of DLM, its key stages, benefits, and the tools and technologies that enable successful implementation. Let's dive in!

The control plane and the data plane are two key components of a network, each facilitating the flow of network packets, and each with its own set of functions and responsibilities. Understanding the differences between these two planes helps you design and optimize networks for improved performance, scalability, and security. This article will explore the control and data planes, including their functionalities, fundamental differences and use cases.

Splunk is pleased to announce its latest innovation in data access and processing — Splunk Edge Hub, in partnership with Edge Hub Central.

“Existing workload automation strategies are unable to cope with the expansion in complexity of workload types, volumes and locations driven by evolving business demand, as per Gartner. Digital business is slowed without collaboration and automation inside and outside of IT, leading to siloes of capabilities across business and IT teams.Cost optimization is an evolving challenge, driven by technical debt and requirements to demonstrate business value of investments.”

The Datadog Service Catalog centralizes your organization’s knowledge about the ownership, reliability, performance, costs, and security of your services. If you’re also using Backstage to keep track of your services, you can leverage our support for Backstage YAML to easily consolidate and maintain all your service information in the Service Catalog.

Netdata Agents and Parents now have a new UI! Steady to our schedule, this is another great Netdata release!

According to the Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report, one out of every five companies has experienced a “serious” or “severe” incident over the past three years—a percentage that’s increasing. Those incidents are expensive: over 60% cost more than $100,000, while 15% set their companies back close to $1 million.

The art of monitoring the influence of an application’s performance on business outcomes is constantly evolving. It used to be directing IT teams to act on insights from an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution was enough to drive business outcomes. Now we know the user experience has a heavy hand in determining whether a digital platform survives or dies. An APM solution keeps tabs on the performance of application components such as servers, databases, and services.