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MSP Fails, and How to Avoid Them!

“All happy successful MSPs are alike—each MSP fail is a fail in its own way.” That IT spin on the Anna Karenina principle pretty much sums up what we’ll cover here (but keep reading, it’s good stuff!). To be a successful MSP, you have to nail the financial, marketing, customer service, and tech sides of the business. All successful MSPs are “alike” in that way. On paper, that sounds simple enough.

Data Center Power Chains: AC vs. DC

In a data center, the power chain is the sequence of infrastructure equipment that distributes power from its source all the way to the IT devices. Most data centers use alternating current (AC) power, though telecommunications companies typically use direct current (DC) power. There are pros and cons to each, and they require different equipment.

Unlock the full potential of your data with Elastic Search Platform

Data: the volume of it, the variety of it, and the complexity of it is overwhelming. Join Elastic Enterprise Search Product Lead Jonas Lavoie as he interviews VP of Elastic Platform Steve Kearns, GM of Elastic Observability Sajai Krishnan, GM of Elastic Security Santosh Krishnan, and GM of Elastic Enterprise Search Matt Riley about the data challenges facing IT leaders today and how 1 platform with 3 search-powered solutions built on 1 tech stack can unlock the power of structured and unstructured data -- anywhere.

Optimize Trace Memory with Scout

Application performance monitoring (APM) is a process of monitoring and analyzing performance issues within an application. In monolithic architecture, monitoring the performance of an application using APM tools was straightforward. However, once the application adopts microservice architecture, the application becomes more complex, and the business functionalities flow into different microservices to complete the workflow.

Deploy Django apps to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Your software development team has an enormous number of tools available to them. Some older tools are being used in new ways, which has inspired the creation of more new tools to choose from. For example, JavaScript has grown from a language used to add interactivity on websites to a full-stack language for both frontend and backend needs. JavaScript has paved the way for Express, Nest.js, and many others.

Cloud 66 Celebrates 10-year Anniversary

Cloud 66 turned ten this year! While this is a big deal for us, I understand that it is not important to you. After all, who cares if a company turns 10, right? So, why am I writing about it, and why do I think you might also be interested in this? Since we started Cloud 66 in 2012, we and the world around us have changed significantly. We are no longer a scrappy startup with only big dreams to keep us going. Today, hundreds of customers rely on us daily for critical parts of their business.

Data Quality Explained: Why Quality Is Critical to Using Your Data

Much like wine (😉), having data doesn’t mean you have quality data. Today it's easier than ever to get data on almost anything. But that doesn’t mean that data is inherently good data, let alone information or knowledge that you can use. In many cases, bad data can be worse than no data, and it can easily lead to false conclusions. So, how do you know that your data is reliable and productive? This is what we call data quality.