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Container Optimization Techniques that Cloud Providers Hate!

Watch this 20-min session to get an in-depth look at factors that must be considered when optimizing containers, and effective ways to optimize container density to make sure that they don’t get throttled or killed, while at the same time making sure that being safe doesn’t run up a huge cloud bill. We cover 3 critical factors that are key when optimizing.

The Role of AWS Direct Connect in Hybrid Cloud Networking

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect is a system that connects your business to an AWS service without using mainstream internet. Implementing this system into your company means any information transferred over the internet will use a private, secure network. AWS Direct Connect designs virtual interfaces that are directly connected to public AWS service. It makes the transfer of information quicker and more streamlined for your company.

Broadcom Recognized as Outperformer in the 2023 GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud Observability

We are excited to share that the AIOps and Observability solution from Broadcom has earned a leader position for platform play and maturity in the GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud Observability, 2023. This report reviewed solutions from 20 vendors on 13 criteria, including across such areas as innovation, understanding of emerging trends, solution capabilities and features, and deployment models.

Site Reliability Engineering: Definition, Principles & How It Differs From DevOps

Site crashes and outages can cost hundreds of thousands in lost revenue and inconvenience users. Site Reliability Engineering helps build highly reliable and scalable systems, particularly important for companies that depend on their software to support their customers performing critical operations. Hiring a Site Reliability Engineer is the best way to ensure a software system stays up and running at all times.

What's new in Avantra 23.2

It’s my pleasure to announce that the newest version of Avantra, 23.2, is now available for download through our customer hub. In this release we’ve focussed on bringing performance enhancements and usability improvements as well as enhancing our platform extensibility experience and bringing new automation templates to remove some of the mundane tasks that we know SAP operations teams get stuck doing rather than spending time on the more important stuff.

Benefits of Monitoring for Cloud Security

Monitoring virtual & physical servers for potential threats or security loopholes is termed as cloud security monitoring. It helps identify these issues and rapidly respond to them, keeping your network safe. Cloud security monitoring best practices include automation for data, application, & infrastructure behavior monitoring and assessment. It helps in providing better access control & faster response time in case of a security breach.

Multi-Cloud - Rise of Hybrid Networks and the Need to Monitor & Secure Them

This model has benefits, but at the same time, it introduces complexity for the IT teams tasked with monitoring and securing IT systems. Existing network monitoring technologies that system admins use with on-premise infrastructure are typically not expandable to include infrastructure and services running on public cloud platforms. This is a problem as you cannot manage and secure what you cannot see.

Cloud Visibility: Kentik Cloud Enhancements for AWS

Watch an in-depth walkthrough of using Kentik to streamline incident investigations and improve productivity when working with AWS. We demonstrate how to analyze data related to IP traffic denials across multiple VPCs, identifying security group issues and using the Kentik Data Explorer for enriched flow data visualization. The video also explains how Kentik’s cloud data reporting capabilities enable quick and efficient problem-solving, reducing the time to resolution. It’s perfect for IT teams looking to boost efficiency and tackle common issues related to security groups and access control lists.

Cloud Visibility: Announcing Kentik Map for Google Cloud

Learn how Kentik Cloud can improve efficiency in managing Google Cloud infrastructure. It showcases Kentik Map, which provides a constantly updated, detailed visualization of your hybrid cloud environment, illuminating how resources interact and are nested within each other. Watch as we demonstrate how to analyze real-time traffic flow, troubleshoot connection problems, and use the routing table to understand network communication issues. Whether you’re resolving network problems, onboarding new team members, or migrating applications to the cloud, the Kentik Map offers a powerful tool to enhance your productivity in Google Cloud.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample AWS dashboards

Join Adam Kinniburgh and Dan Watts as they showcase these out-of-the-box AWS dashboards, which are instantly loaded up in your SquaredUp environment when you connect to AWS. These SquaredUp AWS dashboards allow engineers to have a better understanding of their AWS environments immediately, with the possibility of adding metrics from other sources to support the environment view. Stay tuned to see a walkthrough of each dashboard, and understand the challenges they solve.