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Your guide to the key steps of capacity planning and management

If you’re going to move assets to Azure – or any public cloud, you’re going to need some help. As a cloud consulting firm with a top-notch infrastructure performance monitoring application, we help enterprises navigate obstacles on the path to the cloud all the time. We’ve also felt the pain of sizing and pricing in our cloud journey, too. That’s why we created Galileo Cloud Compass (or GCC as we sometimes call it).

What is SSE vs SASE, and is SASE Dead?

Gartner introduced a new security architecture called Security Service Edge, or SSE, back in March 2021. Now finally, after a long wait, they’ve just published their first Magic Quadrant for SSE in February 2022. This begs the question, is SASE dead? To answer, we need to look at what is SSE vs SASE, and what are the challenges SSE addresses. For easy reference, Gartner created the following SSE definition.

A guide to Google Cloud Platform regions

Google Cloud is underpinned by a global network of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions that help bring its services closer to users and improve reliability and speed. In this blog, we look at the rollout of GCP regions and locations worldwide, and explain the benefits of using a direct connection to access them.

Azure Communication Services - an overview

There are such cloud services that can drastically accelerate your innovation and reduce your time to market by providing you with functionalities that are simple, ready-to-use and that allow you to add a real added-value to your users. Azure Communication Services is one of those. In this article, we’ll have an overview of what Azure Communication Services (“ACS” for short) is, what functionalities it provides and what are some of the use cases in which it can be leveraged.

Grafana 8.4 release: new panels, better query caching, increased security, accessibility features, and more!

Grafana 8.4 is here! Get 8.4 This release includes a variety of updates focused on making Grafana easier to use, improving performance, and keeping your data secure. For a full list of new features and capabilities, check out our What’s New in Grafana 8.4 documentation. You can get started with Grafana in minutes with Grafana Cloud. We have free and paid Grafana Cloud plans to suit every use case — sign up for free now.

Pepperdata Profiles: Maneesh Dhir Steps Up as New Pepperdata CEO

A change in leadership is an exciting phase for any organization. Here at Pepperdata, we are excited to announce that we have a new CEO at the helm: Maneesh Dhir. Our former CEO, Ash Munshi, will assume the role of Executive Chairman of the company’s board of directors, following five years of continued growth. We are thrilled to have Maneesh as our new chief executive and look forward to his extensive experience and expertise in the tech space helping us thrive in the coming months and years.

Better Way To Write Async Function in Node/Express/Next - Handle catch(err) Only Once.

Avoid Writing a Lot of Try Catch by Catching The ‘catch()’ Just Once. How annoying it is to write a lot of try-catch for each async function in an express app? What if you never need to write a try catch block for all async functions and still be able to handle the errors?