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March 2024

Advantages of White Label Geofencing Marketing

Geofencing marketing has become a valuable tool for businesses to target their audience with tailored ads and messages. One popular strategy is white labeling, where a company's services are sold under another brand's name. In this post, we will discuss the benefits of white-label geofencing marketing and how it can help businesses.

Future Frontiers: The 9 Leading Tech Degrees Shaping Tomorrow

In a world rapidly being reshaped by technology, the right education can be the golden key to unlocking a future filled with opportunities. As we stand on the brink of technological advancements that promise to redefine what's possible, the academic world is evolving to prepare the next generation for careers that might not even exist today.

9 Creative and Practical Uses for NFC Tags

The NFC (Near Field Communication) technology presents many opportunities to improve our lives. These small tags can store vast information and commands that simplify tasks and automate routines. With the NFC, you can significantly simplify your life processes while free to customize their functionality to your preferences. Here's a curated list of creative and pragmatic ways to use NFC tags to your advantage.
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5 Proactive Security Engineering Techniques for Cloud-Native Teams

Developing a proactive security strategy can potentially save an organization millions of dollars per year. According to IBM, the average cost of a data breach in 2023 added up to a staggering $4.45 million, up 15% over the last three years. This is especially true for cloud-native environments, which face unique security challenges due to their dynamic nature. Instead of waiting to respond to cybersecurity incidents after they happen, it's much better to embrace a proactive approach, and prevent them in the first place.

NiCE Customer Quotes

In the contemporary business landscape, the need for efficient IT infrastructure monitoring is paramount to ensure smooth operations and maintain competitiveness. NiCE specializes in Management Packs tailored for Microsoft SCOM, offering comprehensive performance insights and scalability. Our customers consistently report benefits such as improved monitoring, seamless integration with SCOM, and proactive issue resolution.

How to Search Your Cloud Data - With No Data Movement

Organizations are building data lakes and bringing data together from many systems in raw format into these data lakes, hoping to process and extract differentiated value out of this data. However, if you’re trying to get value out of operational data, whether on prem or in the cloud, there are inherent risks and costs associated with moving data from one environment to another.

AIOps Platform in 2024: What they don't tell you

If you like fashion and frequently go shopping for new clothes, you may have encountered this experience. Once you enter a multi-brand retail store, you will notice a series of micro-store setups for each brand. The store is designed to give shoppers a grand view of all the brands under one roof. The convenience of categorized displays would help you select a brand that resonates with your choice of style, colour, and price.

The Azure Cost Management Journey

Episode 3 of #FinOpsonAzure takes you on journey through Azure cost management and FinOps as industry experts Michael Stephenson and Ahmed Bayoumy delve into the nuances of optimizing cloud spend. Also, Ahmed illustrates a compelling real-world case where a client struggled with an unexpected surge in expenses, underscoring the significance of reliable cost tracking and reporting mechanisms. Discover how third-party solutions help enterprises with detailed analytics, empowering them to pinpoint areas for improvement and help with ways to cut down on unnecessary Azure spending.

Monitor Supabase databases and Edge Functions

When cloud service providers first started popping up, many developers were “wowed” by being able to spin up and scale all kinds of infrastructure to deploy their web applications on demand. However, big-box cloud service providers are often complex to use, scaling out is expensive and default monitoring solutions are not very insightful. Besides, we are spoiled developers, and we expect things to be easy.

Sending PHP Single-Page Application Logs to Loggly

In this post, we’ll embark on the journey of building a simple PHP single-page application that interacts with a MySQL database. We’ll integrate logging functionality on top of our application. Logging is a crucial aspect of any application—for providing insights into user behavior, tracking errors, and monitoring performance. We’ll start by walking through how to set up our application.

Patch Management Software: Your Guide to Picking a Patch Manager (with Examples)

Patch management software automatically applies updates to software, firmware, and other system components. Patching makes sure resources are up to date with the latest security and performance improvements to keep software protected and performing as expected.

Limit deployments to Platform.sh only when Git tagged: part two

In part one of this series, we covered how you could limit deployments to Platform.sh only when a tag is pushed/created, focusing primarily on using GitHub and the GitHub Actions platform to accomplish this goal. But we’re a polyglot PaaS and strive to be agnostic in our users’ source code management terms of the service. With that in mind, let’s look at how we can accomplish the same goal using GitLab and your CI/CD system. Just like last time, there are some assumptions to consider.