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15 Best (Free) Windows Utilities for SysAdmins

Running an organization's IT infrastructure is not easy, but having free windows utilities can make all the difference. Whether you provide tech support to a school, run the server of a startup, or manage a complex IT infrastructure, the work of a SysAdmin can be highly challenging. We're talking about unforeseen issues that require immediate attention, balancing the needs of different people, and being responsible for the upkeep of multiple computers.

Cloud Providers Health Report - January 2023

Check our January 2023 health report on the top most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month. The source of the data is made available by the cloud providers themselves via their status page. We normalize it and use it to generate the report.

Extending Netdata's anomaly detection training window

We have been busy at work under the hood of the Netdata agent to introduce new capabilities that let you extend the "training window" used by Netdata's native anomaly detection capabilities. This blog post will discuss one of these improvements to help you reduce "false positives" by essentially extending the training window by using the new (beautifully named) number of models per dimension configuration parameter.

Total experience: Today's top business multiplier

The pressures that converged upon businesses during the pandemic forced the rapid evolution of both the customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX). In that make-it-or-go-under environment, many of those that survived came out ahead in terms of CX and EX. Now we face the next hurdle: strong macroeconomic headwinds. Inflation and the threat of a recession are forcing businesses to prove their resilience once again.

Cyber Resilience: The Key to Security in an Unpredictable World

Join Ed Bailey and Jackie McGuire as they delve into the topic of cyber resilience and its growing significance in today's digital landscape. In this informative video, you will learn what cyber resilience means, why it's important, and how to manage and improve it in an increasingly unpredictable world. With cyber threats becoming more sophisticated and frequent, cyber resilience has become a critical aspect of protecting personal and business assets. This discussion is perfect for anyone looking to better understand the importance of cyber resilience and how to safeguard against potential threats.

Protect Data from Ransomware with Flowmon & Superna

With the rapid rise of ransomware in the recent years, protecting your data is now crucial than ever. Combination of Flowmon' Anomaly Detection System (Flowmon ADS) to provide early warning about upcoming attacks and Superna's capability of taking proactive snapshot of data is a powerful combo to protect your data before any exfiltration attempt.

How Grafana Labs uses and contributes to OpenCost, the open source project for real-time cost monitoring in Kubernetes

While more and more teams are adopting Kubernetes as their standard container orchestration technology, cost insight is lacking. Teams often don’t know how much they’re spending, where in their organization they are spending, or what is driving their infrastructure cost increases. OpenCost helps alleviate this problem by bringing real-time cost monitoring to Kubernetes workloads with a solution that encompasses both an open specification and an open source project.