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Canonical and CoreSpace Announce Partnership To Offer Organizations 'One-Stop Shopping' for Private Clouds

February, 8th 2022 — Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, and CoreSpace, a leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, announced a partnership today that makes it easier and more economical for organizations to set up, customize, and manage private clouds. Hybrid or multi-cloud environments that allow organizations to run workloads where it makes the most sense have become common in the modern enterprise.

Financial Services Customer Maintains 99.99% Uptime With LogicMonitor

In this case study video, LogicMonitor is joined by Abrigo, a software company for financial institutions, to discuss the evolution of the financial technology space through the digital transformation era. From supporting PPP loans throughout the pandemic to consolidating a plethora of monitoring tools into one platform for greater visibility and ease of use – LogicMonitor provides Abrigo with the enterprise-grade SaaS monitoring solution it needs to support its customers 24/7, around the globe.

GCISD Accelerates Digital Transformation With LogicMonitor

In this case study video, LogicMonitor is joined by Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District to discuss the evolution of the education space through the digital transformation era. From keeping tabs on thousands of devices, consolidating a plethora of monitoring tools into one platform for greater visibility and ease of use, and leveraging AI powered alerting and forecasting, LogicMonitor provides GCISD with the enterprise-grade SaaS monitoring solution it needs to support its students 24/7, wherever they are learning.

This is Why Everyone Else is Embracing Kubernetes

Now that conferences are finally coming back, what better way to emerge from uncertainty with a strategy marked for success? If you’re wondering which technology conferences and events to attend, how about starting with containers and Kubernetes? As the leading platform technology underlying containers, Kubernetes can help you build, deploy, and manage applications faster and at scale.

Slash MTTR, avoid costly downtime with improved cross-team Collaboration

Every second counts when IT teams are called upon to resolve business impacting issues. In modern enterprises, poor communication, fragmented toolchains and spiralling IT complexity can conspire to slow down incident response, putting service availability and ultimately customer satisfaction in peril.

Network automation tools

“Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” – Bill Gates A network, as we all know, is the connection of multiple devices to share information between them. While it’s a major task to manually manage every device connected to a network, a software-based feature called network automation can be utilized to help overcome this challenge.

CVE-2021-44142: Critical Samba Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution

Recently, a critical out-of-bounds vulnerability, assigned to CVE-2021-44142, was disclosed in Samba versions prior to 4.13.17. The Samba vulnerability carries a critical CVSS of 9.9 and allows attackers to remotely execute code on machines running a Samba server with a vulnerable configuration. The vulnerability was disclosed as part of the Pwn2Own Austin competition where researchers are challenged to exploit widely-used software and devices with unknown vulnerabilities.

Auto-generate Postman Collections from traffic

Postman is a great tool for API testing during development. It’s GUI is simple to learn and ubiquitous. However, manually writing test cases for local development gets tedious fast if you have a lot of endpoints. Meticulously entering every detail for every use case takes forever. Also, if you get one HTTP Header or parameter wrong, it can take hours to diagnose. And even when it’s done, the API tests are almost immediately out of date because the API contract changes.