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How to Monitor AWS Direct Connect with LogicMonitor

AWS Direct Connect provides a dedicated network connection between on-premises and AWS environments. Such a connection can be more reliable and increase the uptime of your services because you’re unlikely to be impacted by an ISP’s availability issues, as is the case with traditional, internet-based connections. With our most recent release, Direct Connect connections can be automatically discovered and monitored in LogicMonitor.

How ING Bank Does SRE

Janna Brummel and Robin van Zijll, from ING Netherlands, talked at the Velocity conference in London about how poor availability from their internet banking systems prompted the bank to implement an SRE culture. A centralized SRE team was set up in the Netherlands to provide tooling, consulting and education on reliability to product teams (known as BizDevOps squads internally).

ManageEngine: 2017 at a glance

For ManageEngine, 2017 can be largely defined by one of our favorite C.S. Lewis quotes: “You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.” We began the year with a goal; a goal to bring the numerous domains of IT management together. And we began the year with a dream; a dream to simplify IT management, a dream to help IT propel your business forward.

Mattermost vs. Microsoft Teams / Yammer / Skype for Business

The world is moving from email to messaging. Enterprise CIOs need to decide whether to prioritize messaging as a strategic advantage or to view it as a box to check on their infrastructure list. For organizations focused on outstanding results, Mattermost offers a powerful workplace messaging solution that raises productivity, ignites innovation, and accelerates high performance teams.

Mr. Robot, Mimikatz and Lateral Movement

In Mr. Robot‘s episode 9 of season 2 (13:53), Angela Moss needs to obtain the Windows domain password of her superior, Joseph Green, in order to download sensitive documents that would potentially incriminate EvilCorp. Since her attack requires physical access to his computer, she starts with a good old-fashioned social engineering attack to get the only currently present employee in the office to leave.

Enhancements for Incidents and Maintenances

Each day, dozens (sometimes hundreds) of incidents and maintenances are created on the Status.io platform. We’ve analyzed and studied thousands of these events to help us learn how to improve the tools based on our users’ needs. Today we’re announcing a couple of updates that enhance and streamline the incident and maintenance processes. Let’s dive in!

Uptrends moves up the ranks on Main Software Top 50 2017

We’ve moved up nine places in the rankings from number 18 in 2016 to number nine in 2017 on the Investment firm of Main Capital Partners’ list of the top 50 Dutch software companies. The rankings are calculated based on each companies’ revenue (in and out of Europe), growth, and SaaS revenue. For the last six years, Main Capital Partners have published their Main 50 list to celebrate the Dutch technology industry.

How To Reduce Website Downtime

In an ideal world every site would have 100% uptime, 24/7, 365. However, the reality is not so perfect – hardware failures, DNS issues, DDoS attacks, server maintenance, software problems and poor hosting are among the many causes of downtime. It’s not all doom and gloom though – by following a few practical steps you can really cut down on your downtime.