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We’re pleased to announced the launch of N-able Cloud User Hub, following the acquisition of Spinpanel in July of this year. N-able Cloud User Hub is a multi-tenant Microsoft 365 management and automation platform built for Microsoft Cloud Solution Providers and allows users to automate the management and security of all Microsoft tenants, users, and licenses.

Sustainable technology has become a hot topic in the tech world over the past few years. From the escalating environmental impact of heat and water-intensive activities like crypto mining and chip production to carbon taxes to sustainability becoming a pillar in the AWS Well-Architected Framework, there’s plenty of issues to talk about, but conversations become marked quieter when you shift to discussing solutions.

Serverless backends have different monitoring challenges when compared with traditional applications, mostly due to the distributed and proprietary nature of serverless. Making monitoring and debugging efficient for serverless requires a unique set of tools and techniques. In this article, we’ll discuss the challenges of debugging serverless backends and how to utilize third party tools to improve the monitoring process.

Over the last few years, Microsoft has built excellent tooling around different technologies. Today, everything is available and achievable through the Azure Portal, which helps manage complex solutions. However, this brings in challenges when it comes to managing the distributed resources. The struggle to keep track of messages or know the flow of messages through these distributed resources is growing day by day.

Open-source software (OSS) relational database management systems (RDBMSes) are becoming incredibly popular in the cloud computing world. In this article, I’ll discuss one of the most popular OSS relational databases, PostgreSQL, and the options you have for this database in the Microsoft Azure cloud. It’s worth noting these products are large with many detailed aspects, so consider this article a cursory, high-level overview of each offering.

Let’s imagine, for a moment, that we live in a perfect world. In that world, you could check your company’s cloud bills and financial reports and find cleanly organized categories of spending that help you instantly understand where your money is going and why. Your engineers would meticulously label every spend item with useful metadata tags so you can clearly see which costs have increased and which are most affecting your bottom line.

Testing is a vital part of the mobile app development process. Your team can use testing to evaluate the quality, security, and reliability of mobile apps before releasing them to your users. Users who expect their applications to be highly performant and intuitive. There are two ways DevOps teams can perform testing for mobile apps: on-premise (also called self-hosted) or in the cloud. But which of these is the best option for your team?

Cloud migration efforts continue to grow today as organizations move into a post-pandemic work environment. According to McKinsey & Company, by 2024, most enterprises aspire to have $8 out of every $10 for IT hosting go toward the cloud. In a survey by Morgan Stanley, CIOs say cloud computing will see the highest rate of IT spending growth in 2022.