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Understanding VMware: A Comprehensive Guide

VMware, Inc., a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, is a leading provider of cloud computing and virtualization software and services. Since its establishment in 1998, VMware has been at the forefront of the IT industry, revolutionizing the way businesses operate with its innovative virtualization technology. This article aims to provide an in-depth understanding of VMware, its suite of products, and its transformative impact on the business landscape.

What is Hyper-V?

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor from Microsoft that allows users to create and manage virtual machines (VMs). It’s an integral part of Windows Server and provides a virtualized environment for running multiple operating systems on a single physical machine. This technology has revolutionized the way businesses operate by enabling them to maximize hardware usage, reduce costs, and improve disaster recovery processes.

Carrier reduced MTTR and gained visibility across multiple IT environments

Hear Rich Johnston, Director of Hosting Platforms, describe Carrier’s observability goals to create a unified view of their IT environment for predictive monitoring. Rich describes Carrier’s desire to see issues before customer complaints, and how LogicMonitor implemented extensive visibility on a single platform, including multiple cloud platforms, networking, compute, storage, and more. LogicMonitor helped Carrier quickly and easily deploy dashboards to see how their technology performed, while reducing root cause analysis and shortening resolution time.

From Monitoring to Action - Get Faster Incident Response with Change Forensics

In this post you’ll learn how Kosli’s Change Forensics gives DevOps, Platform, and Site Reliability Engineers the ability to rapidly pinpoint and understand changes and events in their infrastructure and applications, and get to the cause(s) of an incident quickly.

Meet Elemental: Cloud Native OS Management in Kubernetes

Wouldn’t it be great if Rancher could provision and manage not only Kubernetes clusters but also the OS running on the cluster nodes? This is the goal we had in mind when we started working on Elemental. Elemental adds to Rancher the ability to install and manage a minimal OS based on SUSE Linux Enterprise technology, delivered and managed in a fully cloud native way. This simplifies the infrastructure (you only need a container registry) and day 2 operations.

Qovery Demo Day Summary - June 2023

Join us for a recap of the latest updates from Qovery Demo Day, held on June 29th, 2023! Our event provides insight into what we accomplished in the past month and what's to come while showcasing some exciting new features with a special guest: Hamza, Senior Solution Engineer at Doppler. From our new deployment and audit logs to parallelize build and deployment and demos, get ready for an exciting look at what's new with Qovery and what’s next! ✨

Docker Compose Logs: Guide & Best Practices

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. It allows developers to streamline the process of configuring, building, and running multiple containers as a single unit with a docker-compose.yml. This configuration file specifies the services, networks, and volumes required for an application, and their relationships and dependencies. The docker-compose logs command displays the logs of all services defined in the docker-compose.yml file.

Redcentric gained flexible monitoring capabilities across multiple cloud environments

Hear Paul Mardling, Chief Technology Officer, and Ed Jackson, OSS Manager, describe Redcentric’s complex hybrid infrastructure and their difficulties with monitoring tool sprawl when their cloud deployments expanded. Redcentric used LogicMonitor to gain flexible monitoring capabilities across multiple cloud environments to keep up with developer needs. Out-of-the-box data sources and fast, agentless monitoring helped them see everything across thousands of devices in their IT estate, with excellent customer support to help at a moment’s notice.

How Schneider Electric reduced MTTI and alert noise by consolidating monitoring tools

Hear Observability and Monitoring Strategist, Arun Mandayam, describe challenges that Schneider Electric faced around data interpretation and difficulties when using multiple monitoring tools. Arun describes how LogicMonitor helped consolidate monitoring tools, enabled them to onboard new cloud accounts, network devices, and on-prem systems on a unified platform, and helped significantly reduce MTTI and alert noise.

Patch management automation: Is it worth the hype?

Patch management is a term that’s familiar to all within the depths and boundaries of endpoint security. While the addition of “automation” to this term might make it seem like one among the thousands of other automated tasks, cybersecurity experts have been going gung ho over it in the last few years. If you’re reading this, it probably doesn’t make sense to explain to you what patch management automation or automated patch management is.