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Varland Plating has been in the electroplating business since 1946. At their industrial job shop in Cincinnati, Ohio, they perform complex electrochemical treatments on steel, brass, and copper manufactured parts to create everything from corrosion-resistant building materials to decorative metals.

Although the word “contract” immediately takes us to the Legal department, it also has a lot to do with IT. Having a proper contract lifecycle management of IT and software assets not only helps organizations to reduce costs, but if connected to the assets themselves, it becomes an effective way to boost productivity. The easiest and quickest way to do this is using as your contract lifecycle management software – on top of being your ITAM tool. How?

Companies are increasingly adopting managed Kubernetes services, such as Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), to build container-based applications. Leveraging a managed Kubernetes service is a quick and easy way to deploy an enterprise-grade Kubernetes cluster, offload mundane operations such as provisioning new nodes, upgrading the OS/Kubernetes, and scaling resources according to business needs.

When you think of a network, what comes to mind? MySpace, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok… LinkedIn if you’re all business? No, no, no, not what I meant! Not social networks – IT networks. What comes to mind now? Switches? Access points? Firewalls? A score of ethernet cabling? For us too, the network symbolizes all the traditional things that Auvik helps IT teams around the world manage and monitor.

Cloud automation can do a lot for your organization, making it possible to automate resource creation, management, and housekeeping tasks. If you’ve thought that cloud automation is out of reach, or you’re curious to learn what it can do, we’re excited to announce a brand new webinar that can help! Discover cloud automation in action and walk away with code that you can get up and running within an hour.

We often think of DDoS attacks as volumetric malicious traffic targeted against organizations that effectively take a service offline. Most frequently detected by anomalous behavior found in NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and BGP data, what may not be well understood is how the DDoS mitigation works and how it’s possible to visualize the effectiveness of the mitigation during and after an attack.

Due to its complex nature compared to the on-prem architecture, the cloud presents several challenges to maintaining observability in your apps. This is why you need a robust cloud monitoring solution to care for your cloud-based apps and your cloud. As more and more companies move their operations to the cloud, the need for cloud monitoring solutions continues to grow. Understanding the various aspects of cloud monitoring and how it affects your application is essential.