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Get Started with Puppet: A Tutorial Guide for First-Timers

So you’re ready to get started with Puppet and you don’t know where to begin. That’s alright – this short, easy Puppet tutorial will help you get started with Puppet Enterprise. This tutorial blog walks through the first few steps you'll need to take to get Puppet Enterprise up and running so you can start automating your organization's IT infrastructure.

How Automation Can Help Scale An MSP Business

For a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to grow, it must win new customers. However, each new customer brings more devices and users that require management, incident ticket resolution, and provisioning. If the above is actioned manually, an MSP requires dedicated staff to handle the new clients’ users, devices, resolve tickets and requests. Bearing in mind, each staff member can only support a certain number of users and devices.

Ambition, action, and award-winning achievement: creating UK's first EDGE Network

The lessons of history: spotting the EDGE opportunity By early 2020, Pulsant had evolved into a midmarket service provider focused on regional businesses. Catering to this demanding community, Pulsant had developed a range of platforms and data centres to service those businesses that drive the economic growth of UK plc.

AI Unleashed: Revolutionizing Government Processes with Ask Sage and Mattermost

AI will soon take over laborious and tedious tasks, opening new frontiers for impact and innovation. In that transition, many government workflows and processes could be disrupted or even rendered obsolete. How can organizations prepare for the changes to come? Join the founders of Ask Sage, Inc. and Mattermost, Inc. to learn about the state-of-the-art in collaborative AI technologies and applications, from automating compliance monitoring and streamlining software development to accelerating procurement request workflows and more.

What Is Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)?

Secure remote access is now a necessity for organizations, especially since the hybrid work model is expected to grow from 42% in 2021 to 81% in 2024. To secure remote access and provide support for hybrid or fully remote teams, businesses rely on remote access protocols, such as Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). With this post, you can dive deeper into various aspects of RDP, such as pros/cons and use cases, and acquire a better understanding of this essential protocol.

Deploy Testing Environments with Production-Like Data using Bunnyshell and Neon Serverless Postgres

In this webinar we explored the power of Bunnyshell and Neon in deploying production-like testing environments. Bunnyshell, an Environment as a Service platform, enables developers to instantly spin up ephemeral environments on Kubernetes. Neon provides a fully managed multi-cloud Postgres with a generous free tier, making it easy to launch serverless Postgres with a single command.

What is Pushgateway?

Prometheus is an amazing tool, but it has limitations. Some of your applications, including batch jobs and ephemeral jobs, may not live long enough for it to find and scrape them. Since Prometheus cannot scrape all jobs, the company developed Pushgateway as a bridge tool. Because you usually cannot push metrics directly to the Prometheus application, you can sometimes use a Pushgateway to deliver the necessary data. When you need monitoring solutions, try Metricfire.