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July 2023

The Ultimate Cloud Storage Pricing Comparison

Syncing files and folders across multiple devices, updating them between remote team members, and sharing them across individuals and teams are all essential aspects of running a modern business. Cloud storage services enable small businesses and enterprises to manage their data on-demand, scalably, and in a largely fail-safe manner. Their cloud infrastructure enables you to store documents, spreadsheets, videos, and other types of data formats online.

Why monitoring server estates from a single pane of glass is key

The last few years have seen a big change in the size, make-up, and nature of database estates. Data is growing both in volume and complexity, it is now normal to have workloads as well as data in multiple public clouds, and organizations are increasingly using different kinds of databases for different use cases.

What Is Adaptive Thresholding?

Adaptive thresholding is a term used in computer science and — more specifically — across IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), for analyzing historical data to determine key performance indicators (KPIs) in your IT environment. Among other things, it’s used to govern KPI outliers in an effort to foster more meaningful and trusted performance monitoring alerts.

Implementing OpenTelemetry in a Gin application

OpenTelemetry can be used to trace Gin applications for performance issues and bugs. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data like logs, metrics, and traces. Gin is an HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin!

What is Graphite?

What is Graphite? Simply put, Graphite is an open-source enterprise-ready time-series database. So what is a time-series database? Well, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Time Series databases have excellent benefits over traditional databases in terms of high performance, higher writes, improved scalability, better reliability, and many more.

Shaping the Future of ITSM with AI-Enabled Collaborative Workspace

In this interconnected business landscape, communication and collaboration are paramount for organizations to be competitive. That’s why the role of AI-enabled collaborative workspaces in ITSM cannot be understated. As the demand for seamless, proactive, and contextual IT services grows, organizations must capitalize on their potential to stay ahead of the curve.

Looking Beyond Atlassian StatusPage: The 5 Best Alternatives

Status Pages are crucial cogs in your Incident Communication process, they serve as vital channels to keep your stakeholders informed during periods of downtime. Although there are many proficient tools in the market, such as Atlassian Status Page and Status.io, these standalone Status Pages can come with a hefty price tag, with various pricing plans and tiers for both Public and Private Status Pages. Moreover, with Atlassian Cloud’s recent issues, its dependability is in question.

SysAdmin Day 2023: Honoring the unsung heroes of technology

On this SysAdmin Appreciation Day, we pause to honor the remarkable individuals who work behind the scenes and whose efforts power every problem solved, every seamless connection, and every technological success. They are the sysadmins—the unsung heroes deserving our heartfelt gratitude. Today, we express our gratitude to the masters of multi-tasking, the conquerors of crashes, and the champions of security—the beloved sysadmins! Your unwavering commitment to excellence inspires us all.