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Five Worthy Reads: Has the pandemic accelerated digital transformation?

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week we explore how the pandemic and the rise of the remote work culture have enabled digital transformation.

Get the full picture with SquaredUp's ServiceNow Tile (Part 1)

ServiceNow is one of the most widely deployed ITSM tools within enterprise IT environments, and for good reason – they provide a highly customisable platform that allows organisations build the tools they need to their exact requirements. But you’ve got more than ServiceNow to manage and monitor – there’s SCOM, Splunk, and Solarwinds monitoring your infrastructure, also your APM and CI/CD tools too.

What to do when your Site Experiences a DDoS Attack

It’s always in the early dawn hours – an SMS alert on your phone forces you to drag up your eyelids and look at a text: your site traffic has surpassed its usual threshold. You start to run through the possibilities as you drift off in search of a few more minutes of sleep but traffic keeps rapidly increasing and your brain jumps to a conclusion…could it be a DDoS Attack?

VirtualMetric Launches Red Hat Virtualization Monitoring

Monitoring your infrastructure is crucial for your applications, workloads and business as a whole. As a company, VirtualMetric believes that our solutions need to constantly evolve and follow your needs. Now we are happy to present the latest addition to your monitoring suite – Red Hat Virtualization Monitoring. Get advantage of agentless RHEV monitoring and tracking for your Red Hat virtual infrastructures.

Kemp Acquires Flowmon Networks: Ray Downes and J Tobola

Kemp acquires Flowmon for predictive network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPDM) and network detection and response (NDR). Kemp boosts load balancing and application delivery controller (ADC) solutions with advanced flow-based monitoring and encrypted traffic analysis to enable customers to uncover cybersecurity blind spots and accelerate application incident response. Kemp Technologies CEO Ray Downes and Flowmon Networks CEO J Tobola discuss the acquisition.

Monitor Distributed Microservices with AppDynamics and Rancher

Kubernetes is increasingly becoming a uniform standard for computing – in Edge, in core and in the cloud. At NTS, we recognize this trend and have been systematically building up competencies for this core technology since 2018. As a technically-oriented business, we regularly validate different Kubernetes platforms and we share the view of many analysts (e.g. Forrester or Gartner and Gartner Hype Cycle Reports) that Rancher Labs ranks among the leading players in this sector.