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The SaaS Magic Number: How To Calculate And Use It

You can assess your company’s financial health using a number of SaaS metrics, depending on the type of business you are in. Among the most useful is the SaaS Magic Number. So, why is it called the SaaS Magic Number, and how do you calculate it? And why is it so important to track your SaaS Magic Number regularly?

Troubleshoot microservice-based apps faster with Splunk Observability Cloud

When something goes wrong with your microservice-based apps, Splunk Observability Cloud offers a unified Observability platform to make debugging processes easier and faster. By using features like the Service Map to identify the cause of the error and Related Logs in Log Observer to pinpoint its location, you can get back up and running quickly, limiting the impact to your bottom line and keeping your customers happy.

Introduction to Private Locations in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring

In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to create and use private locations in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring to test internal or pre-production applications within a Kubernetes environment. You'll learn exactly what private locations and private runners are, common use cases, and step-by-step instructions on how to deploy a private runner using Helm. Finally, you'll see how to set up a simple browser test to run synthetics against a service available only within a Kubernetes cluster.

Securing Software Supply Chains: New Research Highlights Industry Vulnerabilities

New IDC study, co-sponsored by Canonical and Google Cloud, reveals the challenges and opportunities for organizations securing their software supply chains. Today, Canonical and Google Cloud released findings from a joint research project conducted by the International Data Corporation (IDC) that sheds light on the critical challenges organizations face in securing their software supply chains. The report, “The State of Software Supply Chains.

DX Operational Observability: Troubleshoot WebHook Notification Channels with WebHook Data Collector

The power of AIOps and Observability relies on the ability to ingest, normalize, and correlate the large volumes and huge variety of data available to IT operations teams. With its support for both Broadcom and third-party data, DX Operational Observability (DX O2) gives these teams unmatched observability and insights. With so much data coming to DX O2, monitoring operators need to be notified when important events may occur: Without notifications, important alerts may be overlooked.

Enhancing Cybersecurity Knowledge: Essential Security Awareness Training Guide

Cybercriminals are getting smarter every day. One wrong click on a suspicious email or link can cost your business thousands of dollars-or worse, its reputation. Employees often don't realize how their actions online can expose the company to cyberattacks. Security awareness training is the first step to protecting businesses from these threats. Studies show that companies with trained employees reduce security risks significantly. Awareness turns mistakes into prevention and keeps critical data safe.

How To Improve Your Recruitment Process

In business, it's always going to be important to make sure that you are recruiting the right people at the right time. With that in mind, there is a lot that you will need to think about to ensure that you are going to make this work as well as possible. In this post, we are going to take a look at some of the main ways to improve your recruitment process, so that you should be able to bring in all the best talent whenever you need them. This is really going to make a huge difference overall.

Why Your Remote Meetings Aren't Working (And How To Improve Them)

Remote meetings can be tough to get right. When people are flung across the planet in different time zones and aren't in the same room as each other, coordination becomes annoyingly difficult. Fortunately, there are things you can do about this. Even if remote meetings aren't working for you now, you can quickly turn the situation around. This post looks through some of the problems you might be having with remote meetings first and then runs through a list of solutions you could try to implement. By the end of reading this short article, you should find yourself in a much better position.