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What's the ROI of reliability?

Reliability doesn’t happen by itself. Making a system reliable and resilient enough that your customers can count on it takes a combination of time, effort, and resources that could be used elsewhere, such as shipping new features. It’s also not optional. In an era where downtime costs an average of $14,056/min (or $843,360/hr), outages have a material impact on businesses. Unfortunately, most systems are sprawling and complex enough that even small amounts of downtime can add up quickly.

How data habits help build a data culture

It's no secret that building a data-driven culture in a company is hard, but what is it exactly that makes this such a tricky endeavor? Contrary to popular belief, technology isn't the main hurdle. A recent survey reveals that only a quarter of respondents cite technological limitations as the primary obstacle to becoming data-driven.

Choosing the Right Monitoring Solution for Your Microsoft IT Stack

For IT teams seeking speed and agility, agentless monitoring offers a lightweight approach. This is particularly useful for Microsoft servers like Windows Nano Server, where resources may be constrained, or in environments where gaining approval for agent installations could be a hurdle. An agentless Microsoft monitoring tool is ideal if: However, there are limitations.

Real-Time IT Insights: How Commvault Fined-Tuned Microsoft-Centric Monitoring with VirtualMetric

Managing a complex IT environment with both on-premises data centers and multiple cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) brings a unique set of challenges. Commvault’s cloud operations team, led by Ernie Costa, was well aware of the high-performance systems running on technologies like Hyper-V and NVMe storage. In these systems, even a second’s delay could mean missed opportunities to prevent incidents or optimize performance.

Faster Fixes, Happier Customers: Gearset Leverages Honeycomb for Success

Gearset has been revolutionizing Salesforce DevOps since its founding in 2015. The Cambridge-based team set out with a clear mission: to make Salesforce deployments simpler, faster, and more reliable for every team. Today, Gearset’s powerful product suite is trusted by over 2,500 companies worldwide to deploy metadata, automate CI/CD pipelines, seed sandboxes, and secure critical customer data.

PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024

DB-Engines reveals PostgreSQL as the DBMS of the Year 2024, beating Snowflake and Microsoft's Azure SQL Database and SQL Server. One of Redgate’s community websites, DB-Engines, is today announcing that PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year for the second year in a row, winning for the fifth time overall after also being top-ranked in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2023. Second in the rankings was Snowflake, followed by Microsoft in third place.

Introducing Forge User Profiles | Puppet by Perforce

Tired of sifting through Puppet modules? Wish you could filter and sort to find just what you need? Want a better way to check for module updates for your Puppet-managed infrastructure? Newly revamped user profiles make it easier to find what you’re looking for in the Puppet Forge. Log in or create an account today to save your searches, filter by supported versions, and more. Upload your puppetfile to easily check if you’re using any outdated module versions so you can stay on top of updates.

Maximizing your reliability on AWS

Cloud providers like AWS excel at creating reliable platforms for developers to build on. But while the platforms may be rock-solid, this doesn’t guarantee your applications will be too. It’s the provider’s job to offer stable infrastructure, but you’re still on the hook for making your workloads resilient, recoverable, and fault-tolerant. There’s only one problem: cloud platforms are essentially black boxes.