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Data Centers & the Impending Water Crisis - 5 Experts to Follow

‘Power-hungry data centers greedily devour diminishing water supply!’ – This might be my own frequency bias, but I feel like every headline today references data centers and the existential threat they pose to the environment. Perhaps it’s the sensational numbers and estimates that pull me in: So here I am, uncomfortably deep in the rabbit hole, reading about adiabatic processes and wet cooling towers (experts in the U.K.

The 3 C's of sales analytics

When I started as a data engineer almost 20 years ago, I designed, developed, and implemented a worldwide sales reporting system for my employer using an enterprise data warehouse. Using analytical packages, my team drove quantifiable sales by transforming the way our company leveraged data. Even at the start of the millennium, it seemed obvious that studying analytics was a game-changer.

Empowering Digital Employee Experience with Browser-based Real User Monitoring

Service Watch Browser provides Real User Monitoring (RUM) for SaaS and web applications you don't control. The browser-based plugin can be securely installed as an Internet Explorer or Chrome extension to get the end-user perspective of mission-critical apps such as Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Workday, AWS, etc. Service Watch Browser enables IT admins or app owners to proactively detect and troubleshoot Wi-Fi, ISP, and local network connectivity issues causing the slowness.

PagerDuty Integration Spotlight: LogDNA

LogDNA’s Cloud logging platform helps your DevOps teams find and fix production issues faster so your teams can get back to doing what they do best, building amazing products. Send incident alerts from LogDNA directly to PagerDuty. Check out the LogDNA integration with PagerDuty to get started.

Latest top 21 APM tools [open-source included]

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools are a critical component of distributed applications now. But choosing the right APM tool can be tricky. In this article, we go through a list of the top 21 APM tools including open-source APM tools which can help monitor and improve your application performance.

9 Stackify Competitors to Know in 2021

Stackify is a software company based in Leawood, Kansas, United States. Matt Watson, an American entrepreneur, founded it in January 2012. With a suite of tools like Prefix and Retrace, Stackify aids software developers in troubleshooting and provides support. According to Stackify, standard APM software is insufficient for managing application code.

A developer's guide to machine learning security

Machine learning has become an important component of many applications we use today. And adding machine learning capabilities to applications is becoming increasingly easy. Many ML libraries and online services don’t even require a thorough knowledge of machine learning. However, even easy-to-use machine learning systems come with their own challenges. Among them is the threat of adversarial attacks, which has become one of the important concerns of ML applications.

Say hello to Windows 11 with Desktop Central

Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 on June 24, 2021 at its virtual launch event. Though Windows 11 will be officially available on October 5, 2021, Microsoft has shared the initial beta version with members of its Windows Insider Program. Starting October 5th, Microsoft will roll out the Windows 11 upgrade to eligible Windows 10 PCs, and pre-loaded Windows 11 will be available for sale. The latest OS offers significant improvements to security and management features.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample VMware Status Dashboard

Join SquaredUp's Adam Kinniburgh and fellow virtualisation expert Shawn Williams as they showcase the VMware Status Dashboard. Built in SquaredUp with the easy-to-use PowerShell tile, this dashboard surfaces data from vCenter for Hosts and VM to provide a Virtualization Administrator the information they need at a glance. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and Shawn's top tips for building it yourself.