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Why Are IT Pros Hesitant to Deploy Windows 11?

A key aspect of my job is to speak to End-User Computing (EUC) professionals on a regular basis—analysts, customers, partners, etc.—to better understand their challenges and objectives. Unsurprisingly, one topic has been coming up a lot lately: Windows 11. Surprisingly, nobody wants to actually deploy it. Or, at least, not right now. Why? After countless discussions, 4 reasons were made clear for their reluctance with Windows 11: These are all valid points.

Crash Course in Crash Grouping

Supporting large applications with enormous crash volumes can be a real pain in the hindquarters. It is extraordinarily difficult for organizations to optimally dispatch engineering resources without excellent data and proper tooling. At BugSplat, we recently upgraded the tooling we provide to developers so that they can group related crashes and better target their support efforts, deliver more stable applications, and deliver more value to their customers.

Lindesberg Municipality Improves Network Reliability & Quality for its 5,500 Users w/ WhatsUp Gold

Lindesberg Municipality’s 5,500 simultaneous users were constantly losing connection with its network and IP Telephony systems, which led to a volume of support calls that was straining its IT department. It implemented WhatsUp Gold to monitor its connections and servers and study its access points. Lindesberg has moved from a network-centric to a service-centric installation, with 99.9% uptime, happier customers, and less support tickets.

Top Cloud Security Trends 2022

Enterprise cloud use cases are changing and expanding, and companies are now realizing new security challenges that need to be resolved. Cloud security solutions can include everything from new security tools to more advanced training to investing in new team strategies. See below to learn about the tops trends cloud security experts are seeing in the market.

Applications Manager: Looking back on the features and improvements from 2021

2021 has been an incredible year for us at ManageEngine. Throughout the year, we added several new capabilities and improvements to Applications Manager, our application performance monitoring software. Here’s a look back at the highlights.

20+ Best Log Management Tools for Monitoring, Analytics & More: Pros & Cons Comparison [2022]

Whether you capture them for application security and compliance, production monitoring, performance monitoring, or troubleshooting, logs contain valuable information about the health of your apps. But it all comes down to what and how you log, which is where log management tools come into play.

Top 15 Website Speed Testing Tools [2022 Comparison]

There are a lot of reasons why people choose to shop at one online store over another or pick one streaming service over another from the type of service they are getting to pricing, quality and, you’ve guessed it from the title, speed. The speed to which I’m referring is the speed at which the website loads and reacts to user input. In one of my previous articles about netwok latency, I’ve talked about how big of a difference even a two-second extra delay makes.

Building an effective remote-first team during the pandemic

I’m an engineering manager at Grafana Labs serving on the Grafana Enterprise Operations team. I joined Grafana Labs in December 2020 and I just celebrated my first year at the company. The last 12+ months have been filled with the most exciting and rewarding experiences in my career, full of new opportunities and learnings. More importantly, I am lucky enough to meet and work with the wonderful people at Grafana Labs.

Interview with CTO Kathleen Moriarty

For the newest instalment in our series of interviews asking leading technology specialists about their achievements in their field, we’ve welcomed Kathleen Moriarty, Chief Technology Officer at the Center for Internet Security. During her tenure in the Dell EMC Office of the CTO, Kathleen had the honour of being appointed and serving two terms as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Security Area Director and as a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group from March 2014-2018.