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Minimising latency in your edge cloud with real-time kernel

From applications in telecommunications to edge cloud and industrial digital twins, experimenting with real-time capabilities in cloud technologies is a trend in the industry. Applications for the edge often have an additional requirement as they interact with real-time systems: they need to run deterministically. It means that time constraints their execution and interaction within the system.

Slash Cloud Costs via Pepperdata in the AWS Marketplace

Pepperdata’s cost slashing capabilities are legendary: for the last decade, we’ve been doing just that for some of the largest and most demanding enterprises in the world, including security-conscious global banks, members of the Fortune Five, and other top-tier companies.

AWS CloudTrail vs CloudWatch: Features & Instructions

In today’s digital world, cloud computing is necessary for businesses of all types and sizes, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is undoubtedly the most popular cloud computing service provider. AWS provides a vast array of services, including CloudWatch and CloudTrail, that can monitor and log events in AWS resources. This article will compare AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail, looking at their features, use cases, and technical considerations.

Top Trends of the AWS Summit London

This week, I played at home as the rest of the DX team and I were at the AWS Summit London. 🇬🇧 The event was buzzing with excitement and overflowing with great talks and impressive exhibition stands. It didn't disappoint in terms of attendance either! Despite covering a wide range of subjects, I couldn't help but notice three super-hot tech trends that were everywhere throughout the day. So, without further ado, let's dive right in and explore these topics!

Container Optimization Techniques that Cloud Providers Hate!

Watch this 20-min session to get an in-depth look at factors that must be considered when optimizing containers, and effective ways to optimize container density to make sure that they don’t get throttled or killed, while at the same time making sure that being safe doesn’t run up a huge cloud bill. We cover 3 critical factors that are key when optimizing.

The Role of AWS Direct Connect in Hybrid Cloud Networking

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect is a system that connects your business to an AWS service without using mainstream internet. Implementing this system into your company means any information transferred over the internet will use a private, secure network. AWS Direct Connect designs virtual interfaces that are directly connected to public AWS service. It makes the transfer of information quicker and more streamlined for your company.

Broadcom Recognized as Outperformer in the 2023 GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud Observability

We are excited to share that the AIOps and Observability solution from Broadcom has earned a leader position for platform play and maturity in the GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud Observability, 2023. This report reviewed solutions from 20 vendors on 13 criteria, including across such areas as innovation, understanding of emerging trends, solution capabilities and features, and deployment models.

Site Reliability Engineering: Definition, Principles & How It Differs From DevOps

Site crashes and outages can cost hundreds of thousands in lost revenue and inconvenience users. Site Reliability Engineering helps build highly reliable and scalable systems, particularly important for companies that depend on their software to support their customers performing critical operations. Hiring a Site Reliability Engineer is the best way to ensure a software system stays up and running at all times.

What's new in Avantra 23.2

It’s my pleasure to announce that the newest version of Avantra, 23.2, is now available for download through our customer hub. In this release we’ve focussed on bringing performance enhancements and usability improvements as well as enhancing our platform extensibility experience and bringing new automation templates to remove some of the mundane tasks that we know SAP operations teams get stuck doing rather than spending time on the more important stuff.