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If you have ever had the need to store large amounts of files and data, then Azure’s Blob Storage is made for you. Microsoft’s Azure Cloud provides huge benefits with not only their fantastic services, locations, availability and support, but also in their almost seemingly infinite capacity. Azure Blob Storage is not only scalable, durable and almost always available it also provides flexibility to scale as your business requirements need.

Last week, Catchpoint was one of the sponsors of Splunk’s half-day DevOps & Observability Best Practices event. It was a jampacked conference that examined what observability is, its key drivers, and how observability and monitoring exist “like two peas in a pod”, perfect compliments to one another in enabling enterprise to better understand overall systems behavior and health.

The next 10 years will redefine banking. What will differentiate top banks from their competitors? Data and derived insights.

Salesforce is no one of the top-line Customer Relationship Management tools that you can implement to support your business in sales, marketing, lead management, and customer support. However, not just limited to these, but Salesforce had grown a lot over the last decade now to be complete business management and DevOps tool to handle end-to-end enterprise operations. Salesforce now plays a crucial role in increasing productivity and optimizing ROI.

Tags are essential for aggregating and contextualizing monitoring data across your infrastructure; they enable you to monitor your entire system at a high level, drill down to individual services for more comprehensive analysis, and easily correlate data from every application component. Implementing a consistent and effective tag schema for your applications can be challenging, especially as they grow in complexity.

Brief introduction to understanding Kubernetes basics Kubernetes is a broad platform that consists of more than a dozen different tools and components. Among the most important are: If you use Kubernetes to manage containers, this will require a container runtime, which is the software that runs individual containers. Kubernetes supports a number of container runtimes; the most popular are Docker, containerd, and cri-o.

Databases like MongoDB, a NoSQL document database, are commonly used in environments where flexibility is required with big, unstructured data with ever-changing schemas. This post explains what a NoSQL database is, and provides an overview of MongoDB, its use cases and a solution for running an open source MongoDB database at scale.