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Log4j, the popular open-source logging library, had a rough December and closed out the year with an impressive streak of four critical vulnerabilities so far. Many are calling this the worst cybersecurity event in history. Again, so far.

The state of backup technology has moved forward, and many of the old assumptions are no longer true. For years, image-based backup was considered the industry standard. But today’s IT professionals really need full-system recovery capabilities without the built-in inefficiencies of legacy image backup products. Image-based backup backups are far from ideal, especially for managed services providers (MSPs).

When your Elasticsearch cluster ingests data, it needs to understand how the data is constructed. To do this, your Elasticsearch cluster undergoes a process called mapping. Mapping involves defining the type for each field in a given document. For example, a number or a string of text. But how do you know the health of the mapping process? And why do you need to monitor it? This is where mapping statistics come in. Mapping statistics give you an overall view of the mapping process.

Recent data shows that the global APM (application performance management) market is booming. Currently valued at $6.3 billion, the global APM industry is expected to reach $12 billion by 2026. This growth indicates the increasing importance of monitoring, diagnosing, and improving application performance. Visibility and automation is key to sustaining the growth and evolution of APM.

Only 29% of IT project implementations are successful, while 19% percent are considered utter failures (according to the Chaos report). Thus, organizations must take the time to assess, quantify, and communicate the costs, benefits, values, and ROIs of enterprise technology initiatives. So, to help you get started, here is a tool that supports both 30-minute and highly detailed assessments.

Recently, I wrote an article titled Life Cycle Monitoring: Why an Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of a Cure. The great Benjamin Franklin coined the term. In the article, I highlighted the value, efficiency, and logic of putting more time into a proper capacity planning and optimization process for all types of IT environments. Most IT professionals would tell you the first thing that comes to their mind when asked how they use log management tools is troubleshooting.

It is commonly believed that once data is collected and ingested into a system of analysis, the most difficult part of obtaining the data is complete. However, in many cases, this is just the first step for the infrastructure and security operations teams expected to derive insights.

Very recently, the JFrog security research team has disclosed an issue in the H2 database console which was issued a critical CVE – CVE-2021-42392. This issue has the same root cause as the infamous Log4Shell vulnerability in Apache Log4j (JNDI remote class loading). H2 is a very popular open-source Java SQL database offering a lightweight in-memory solution that doesn’t require data to be stored on disk.

A Scrum Ceremony is a type of scrum event or meeting that is intended to help move projects forward in a more timely and efficient manner. These ceremonies occur at key points in the production process, emphasizing organized collaboration and communication between team members to help simplify complex development processes and queues. For example, Daily Scrum is a ceremony held every morning to go over which items have been completed, which are being worked on, and which are coming up.