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Load Balancing VMware Horizon's UDP and TCP Traffic: A Guide with HAProxy

If you’ve worked with VMware Horizon (now Omnissa Horizon), you know it’s a common way for enterprise users to connect to remote desktops. But for IT engineers and DevOps teams? It’s a whole different story. Horizon’s custom protocols and complex connection requirements make load balancing a bit tricky. With its recent sale to Omnissa, the technology hasn’t changed—but neither has the headache of managing it effectively.

SUSE Rancher Prime Meets Cluster API: From theory to practice

If you’re new to Kubernetes or looking to modernize your cluster management workflows, Cluster API and SUSE Rancher Prime make it easier than ever to provision and manage clusters declaratively. This guide walks you through enabling Cluster API in SUSE Rancher Prime, deploying your first cluster and exploring advanced features like GitOps. Some helpful documentation can be found here and a few pre-requisites for this hands-on walkthrough.

How to Import Data From Other Software into QuickBooks Online

Struggling with CRM QuickBooks integration? Importing data into QuickBooks Online is essential for building a robust, integrated financial workflow. Whether you’re pulling customer info from external databases, syncing financial records, or automating sales pipeline updates and data migration, it’s a developer’s bread and butter. Yet, QuickBooks Online’s native import features often fall short, with rigid file formats, row limits, and no support for complex data relationships.

How to Choose the Right Database for Data Analytics

You start a query, grab a coffee, and come back to… a report that’s still loading. We’ve all been there. When your database wasn’t designed for analytics, even basic reporting can feel painfully slow. Databases aren’t one-size-fits-all, especially when it comes to analytics. The system that works fine for storing and retrieving customer transactions or app data isn’t necessarily built to process complex queries on massive datasets.

Best Data Management Solutions: Features, Pros, and Cons

Data management tools can either be your greatest ally or your biggest headache. Effective data management is the process of controlling and organizing your data assets to ensure their quality, security, and accessibility. The right data management solution simplifies the validation, storage, and processing of your data, transforming it into a reliable resource for accurate analysis, informed decision-making, and regulatory compliance.

What is Data Integration? Definition, Types, Examples & Use Cases

Given the flood of information and emerging cloud and big data technologies, more and more companies are now adopting data integration initiatives to analyze and act on their data more effectively. For modern companies seeking to improve their strategic decision-making and competitiveness, data integration meaning isn’t so simple. What is data integration? We’ll find out in this material!

Redgate Software recognized as a Strong Performer in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Integrated Development Environment Software

Customer reviews play a key role in weighing up whether to make a purchase or not. From booking a hotel to choosing a piece of technology or software, most of us would usually check out the reviews before going ahead. With this in mind, we’re excited to announce that Redgate Software has been named a Strong Performer in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Integrated Development Environment Software.

Optimizing Every Layer: From Cloud to On-Premises

As digital infrastructures become more complex, businesses need an agile, unified platform that spans traditional on-premises systems to modern cloud-native environments. At Virtana, our latest feature updates across Global View, Container Observability, and Infrastructure Observability are designed to empower you to optimize every layer of your IT ecosystem.

Open source enterprise application security remains a challenge despite greater patching efforts, IDC research reveals

The latest report from the International Data Corporation (IDC) co-sponsored by Canonical and Google Cloud indicates that 36% of organizations adopt open source to improve development velocity, and 7 in 10 organizations see open source as extremely important to run mission critical workloads. However as open source adoption grows, organizations face increasing difficulty in securing and maintaining their software supply chains.

Hands-on guide to microservices unit testing with CI/CD

As microservices architectures dominate modern application development, the ability to test, secure, and automate their deployment has become a vital skill. In this guide, you’ll learn how to: Let’s first set the stage by briefly exploring the foundational concepts of CI/CD and DevOps, which underpin the automation and agility required in development workflows.