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CheckMK and Enterprise Alert - a scripted heartbeat check

A few days ago I received an inquiry about a scripting problem from one of our longtime partners, to be exact our DCP Marc Handel from IT unlimited AG. In the exchange with Marc I realized that his idea to use the Enterprise Alert Scripting Host, the Windows Task Scheduler and CheckMK to realize a roundtrip monitoring could be interesting for the whole community. Especially for all our CheckMK customers.

Building a fault-tolerant content API using Strapi and FlashDrive

Strapi is a very popular headless CMS and you probably have heard very good things about it. Here at FlashDrive we love it and use it everyday! On FlashDrive.io, Strapi is available as a one-click installation product inside the FlashDrive marketplace. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Strapi on FlashDrive, create our first content and publish it!

Creating problem-solving partnerships through a policy of open innovation

The world is full of problems. Any company trying to make a name for itself in the world is going to run right smack into those problems. But the world is also full of solutions. To better find and profit from those solutions, companies are increasingly embracing open innovation, an approach to solving problems in creative and unexpected ways by collaborating with customers, partners, and employees.

Why Migrate to Cloud Now?

Cloud has become the go-to location for businesses to store data and build infrastructure. Many organizations have shifted their applications to cloud platforms, and many of those businesses that have their data on-premise ecosystem today are soon planning to migrate to the cloud. Studies reveal that the main drivers for cloud migration are security, cost-efficiency and modernization capabilities. But is not limited to this, a lot more is yet to realize. In respect of the current situation, the transition from legacy software and cloud is a strategic step. It is becoming a must-have step for business continuity for most companies.

Cloud or On-Prem? With Monitoring, It's Both-And, Not Either-Or

Despite the migration of services and systems to cloud (either all or in part), many of the fundamental aspects of the day-to-day work IT practitioners do hasn’t changed. It’s just moved. In this session, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg discuss that state of affairs, as well as what monitoring can do to help view those resources as a contiguous whole, despite possibly being split across the on-prem/cloud divide.