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Five worthy reads: Be doubtless of your decisions with decision intelligence

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this edition, we’ll learn what decision intelligence is, how it could help businesses, and much more. Illustrated by Derrick Roy We covered the basics of decision intelligence (DI) in an earlier Five worthy reads blog. In this blog, we’ll take a look at how it is going to help businesses flourish in 2022.

How Advances in Cloud Security Can Help with Ransomware

Organizations must update their ransomware protection at the same pace that as the attackers changes their tactics. The ransomware scourge continues, with incidents hitting a U.S. record in the second quarter of 2021, as attackers expand into vertical industries and target critical infrastructure. Ransom demands have also been growing. According to IT Governance, the average decryption key rate from attackers is $140,000 yet many organizations end up paying much more than that.

All things you should know to be a Meeting Master

While meetings are part of today's organizations, they can also bring some frustration preventing one from scratching its TODO list. It can be a good idea to try to promote asynchronous mediums such as Notion pages, Slack channels, etc. This page aims to bring some insights regarding WHEN / WHY holding or not a meeting.

Kubernetes Networking: How to monitor Kubernetes using synthetic testing

Kubernetes enables DevOps efficiency by streamlining application and service deployment and management. While this gives greater control, it also makes it harder to monitor the health of the applications and services. Synthetic monitoring simulates network conditions and user actions by running continuous tests from global locations before adverse conditions impact end users. What you’ll learn.

Troubleshooting Slow Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Logons

In order to troubleshoot slow Azure Virtual Desktop logons, it is helpful to have a complete understanding of the application and how it operates. Here, we will outline the architecture and key components of AVD, the impact of DNS on the connection flow, and how eG Innovations offers time saving tools to troubleshoot problems with AVD before they negatively impact your organization’s productivity.

Defined Best Practices of Maintenance Scheduling and Planning

When you want to perform effective asset management, then maintenance is one of the major pillars which cannot be ignored. Asset maintenance and scheduling is a continuous procedure as there are assets and pieces of machinery in abundance, especially in big enterprises. That is why it is important to know best practices for maintenance planning and scheduling!

Are metrics vendors lying? Reaction to Gergerly Orosz's tweet

Gergely Orosz said measuring developer productivity by visualizing JIRA+git stats is a dead-end if you want truly high-performing teams, and that engineering managers hang on to this hope, fueled by vendors claiming how these tools helps teams ship better/faster. So are metrics vendors lying? Find out what Don has to say. SLEUTH A deploy-based DORA / Accelerate Metrics tracker both managers and developers love.

Monitoring next-generation maritime vessels at Royal IHC with Grafana Cloud

With a storied past in Dutch maritime history, Royal IHC is known for delivering reliable, integrated solutions for their customers. These clients rely on sophisticated vessels to create new ports, maintain navigable waters, clean up pollution, and slow shoreline erosion through the process of dredging, which involves removing sediment and debris from the water.

Monitoring Azure Stack HCI with SCOM 2022

SCOM 2022 has been recently made GA and I, coming from a SCOM background, was pretty interested in checking out the latest SCOM product. Luckily, Azure Stack HCI management packs were recently released too, so it was as if the stars had lined up for me to drop everything else and check out this new management pack with SCOM 2022. And that is exactly what I did!

IT Self-Help: Reduce Tickets & Speed Software Adoption

When a software update backfired resulting in an influx of IT tickets, this organization scaled the fix across all impacted devices, saving 100+ IT hours. Whether organizations run into technical roadblocks, budget constraints, resource limitations or any of the other myriad challenges that can stop a digital transformation project in its tracks, 73% of companies fail to provide any business value from their digital transformation process. All that planning and hard work for nothing.