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How to Use UniDAC and RAD Studio to Access Oracle Database

Developers using the RAD Studio environment frequently encounter challenges with database engines like Oracle. This happens particularly when they have to ensure compatibility and seamless data integration or struggle with matching Delphi data types to the ones used in a database. On the other hand, Universal Data Access Components can efficiently connect to and interact with different databases, including Oracle, without additional access layers or needing extra time to build tailored connectivity.

AWS Auto Scaling 101: Tips For Success

Whether you’re growing rapidly and need to expand your infrastructure or demand has slowed and you need to scale down, AWS Auto Scaling can help. While manual scaling is time-intensive and costly, auto scaling is an automated process that adjusts capacity for predictable performance and costs. Auto scaling can help you optimize how your application is used and reduce wastage and optimize cloud spend.

Network Optimization Strategies: How to Optimize Network Performance

Optimizing your network is the key to help improve network performance. It helps provide optimal performance of your Internet, VPN, Firewall, VoIP and UC apps, and most importantly - your user experience. Keep reading to learn how to optimize network performance for continuous network optimization.

How Canonical enables PCI-DSS compliance

Anyone who deals with online payments will have heard of PCI-DSS. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a comprehensive security control framework that is designed to keep payment card data safe from hackers and misuse. Merchants who accept debit or credit card payments (and service providers who process this information) will know this standard particularly well, as it’s a mandatory requirement for them to ply their trades.

Feature Friday #21: Promisees or stakeholders

Who cares about that promise? Today, I want to highlight one of the lightweight knowledge management features in CFEngine. That is, Promisees, also known as Stakeholders. Promisees are references to things that might care about a specific promise. And they can be attached to any promise. Let’s take a look at a contrived example: From the example above, we can see that the methods promise - promising to run the example_promisees bundle - has Feature Friday #21 defined as the only promisee.

Decision Intelligence: An Introduction

Every day, employees and leaders of enterprise IT organizations make multiple decisions that affect their company’s success or failure. To stay ahead of the competition and drive innovation, an increasing number of organizations are turning to decision intelligence (DI), a relatively new field combining data science, decision theory and artificial intelligence, to augment and improve decision-making.

Microsoft Teams Health Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building a Teams Health Dashboard by combining the collected metrics for CloudReady Synthetics and Service Watch Desktop. The Teams Health Dashboard provides users with a holistic view of Microsoft Teams availability and performance. When an issue occurs, users can quickly review the Teams Health Dashboard and identify whether the issue is limited to an office or affecting Microsoft Teams as a whole.

Email Health Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we’ll be walking you through building a Microsoft Exchange and Outlook dashboard utilizing CloudReady Synthetics and Service Watch Desktop. This dashboard is a great first stop when diagnosing user email issues. When an issue comes up, engineers can quickly review the CloudReady data available in the dashboard to identify if an office or Exchange Online is experiencing issues or an outage.

Ensure Full Stack Observability Between Mainframe and Cloud/Container Applications with AIOps from Broadcom

As enterprises advance on their cloud/modernization journeys, many teams struggle to achieve full stack observability. These teams are finding that mainframe systems are a ”critical path” for applications that deliver business-critical digital services to customers, partners, and employees.