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Not all employees want to go digital - here's what you can do

As you may be aware, Digital Employee Experience (DEX) refers to the way employees interact with digital tools, technologies, and systems in the workplace. While the digitalization of work has simplified the lives of business users, it has also created human-centric challenges. Technology may have enabled them to work from anywhere, collaborate with colleagues from around the world, and access information at their fingertips – it also calls for them to go against hard-boiled human instincts.

90 things about Azure Storage you may not know

Azure Storage is a cloud-based storage solution that provides secure, scalable, and highly available storage for your data. It is a crucial component of Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, providing various storage services, including Blob Storage, File Storage, Queue Storage, Table Storage, and Archive Storage. In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into Azure Storage and discuss 90 things you may not know about it.

5 key takeaways from the Grafana Labs Observability Survey 2023

Observability is coming into its own, as SREs and DevOps practitioners increasingly seek to centralize the sprawl of tools and data sources to better manage their workloads and respond to incidents faster — and to save time and money in the process. That was the overarching message from more than 250 observability practitioners who took part in the Grafana Labs’ first ever Observability Survey.

AI Monitoring with MetricFire

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword in recent years. From chatbots to self-driving cars, AI has transformed how we live, work, and interact with the world around us. AI technology has been deployed across various sectors, including healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and more, to improve efficiency, accuracy, and decision-making capabilities. However, as AI systems become more complex, monitoring them to ensure optimal performance and prevent issues or errors becomes crucial.

7 Signs You Need IT Support in Your Organization

It's pretty common for most organizations to have IT support. But does it need to exist right at the beginning of your business, or is it something that can be added afterward? And if so, at what point is it advisable to build it? The first thing to know is that IT staff is essential when your business hits a certain size or level of complexity. Too vague? Then here are seven signs you need IT support to help you out! Ready to find out if your business needs IT support? Let's find out!

4 Tools to Help Protect Against Online Identity Theft

Online identity theft has become a significant concern for everyone, especially as we rely more on the internet for various activities such as shopping, banking, and socializing. Identity theft occurs when someone steals personal information, such as name, address, social security number, or credit card details, to commit fraudulent activities. The consequences of identity theft can be severe: $15.1 billion in monetary loss in a given year alone!

How to be successful with Unified Analytics

As an ITOps professional, it can be challenging to justify all of your actions to your organization. After talking with many of you, we saw first-hand the pains and gaps around showing the impact of your team and the constant struggle to measure how you’re improving. That’s where Unified Analytics comes into play.

Monitoring our monitoring

Last Saturday, our API went down. Not even a funny error message or slightly slower responses either, it just completely vanished off the internet for 18 minutes. I'm not normally one to point fingers at my hosting provider when things go wrong (since ultimately, I chose to use them, so it's my problem to fix), but when fly.io publicly posts on their forums about their reliability issues, I may as well link to them.