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How to Use Data Views to Save Your Monitoring Budget

MetricFire automatically produces different statistical views on the data you send, providing fast views on your metrics at the most appropriate resolution for viewing on your dashboard using Hosted Graphite. This allows you append views to the end of your metric to visualize your data in different ways. Append a view to the end of your metric to visualize your data in different ways.

How Confident is Your Organization in Its Modernization Efforts?

How would your organization rate its modernization? With technology moving at warp speed, most firms are behind the times. A recent report from Forbes said that 70% of digital transformations fail. With the requirement for modernization within IT infrastructure growing tremendously, competitiveness and relevance continue to be increasingly difficult. This begs the question: Just how prepared is your organization to navigate these changes effectively? Understanding your readiness can empower you to utilize Pasadena's technical services in developing a modernization strategy that fosters success.

New IT Disruptions Shake Up the Enterprise Landscape

Recent IT disruptions have been the causes of great changes in the very core of doing business worldwide, presenting both challenges and opportunities in their wake. As such, organizations continue to embrace these changes through emerging technologies, operations, workforce interactions, and customer experience. Therefore, digitization and the adoption of innovative solutions are key to maintaining competitive advantages.

Types of Intrusion Detection Systems: Network vs. Host-Based IDS

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are specialized security tools that are designed to detect and respond to suspicious activities within an organization's network or on individual computer systems. Their primary objective is to identify anomalous patterns or behaviors that may indicate a security incident. These anomalies may include unauthorized access attempts, suspicious patterns in network traffic, or alterations to critical system files.

Azure Kubernetes Service Pricing: Complete Guide to Optimizing AKS Spend

Tired of managing your Kubernetes clusters all on your own? Don’t have the time to figure out how to deploy, run, and optimize usage? Azure has just the thing for you: Azure Kubernetes Services. This article will cover everything you need to know about Azure Kubernetes Services, how it works, what the Azure pricing will be, whether you should use it, and, if so, how to save on your cloud cost.

Linux Load Average Myths and Realities

When it comes to monitoring system performance on Linux, the load average is one of the most referenced metrics. Displayed prominently in tools like top, uptime, and htop, it’s often used as a quick gauge of system load and capacity. But how reliable is it? For complex, multi-threaded applications, load average can paint a misleading picture of actual system performance.

Microsoft Azure Spot Virtual Machines: Your Complete Guide to Azure Spot VMs

Microsoft offers several cost-saving opportunities with Azure pricing. Azure Reserved Instances, Azure Savings Plan, Azure Hybrid Benefit… all can help you save a pretty penny if you know what you’re doing. If you’re looking to cut costs with your Azure VMs, Spot VMs can be the way to go – but the risks can be just as high as the rewards. How do you help your FinOps organization save big – and improve your chances of avoiding a complete resource shutdown?
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Why Your Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) Is Causing More Support Tickets

As organizations continue to embrace digital transformation, Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) has become a popular solution for delivering virtual desktop environments to employees. With the flexibility, scalability, and security Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offers, DaaS has the potential to streamline operations and boost productivity. However, this technology is not without its challenges, particularly when it comes to managing and monitoring end-user digital experience or DEX/DEM.
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Stress-free production deployments: Overcoming high-complexity upgrades with Raygun

This guest post comes from Mojmir Fendek, an experienced PHP developer at Silverstripe and a long-time Raygun user. Mojmir demonstrates how Raygun enhances the upgrade process for complex websites, using a Silverstripe CMS example. Raygun is proud to highlight this guide from Silverstripe, offering valuable insights for teams facing similar upgrade challenges across platforms.

The Parquet Files: An Entertaining Guide to Columnar Storage

Look, I know what you're thinking. Another article about file formats? Really? You'd rather be debugging that mysterious production issue or arguing about tabs versus spaces. But hear me out for a minute. Last week, I was happily hunting through our logs data - you know, the usual terabytes of events that compliance keeps asking for - when our Head of Finance dropped by. "Hey, why is our logging bill so high?" Narrator: And thus began our hero's journey into the world of file formats.