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Pay As You Grow Automation

The IT landscape is evolving faster than ever before, and the move to cloud-based solutions has emerged as a game-changer for businesses looking to future-proof their infrastructure. However, the move to cloud solutions is not all plain sailing and comes with its own challenges due to the change in management access. For example, Microsoft 365 / Office 365 saves companies the headache of operating Exchange, SharePoint and Teams infrastructure.

The rising trend of Data Breaches and Critical Vulnerabilities in 2023

As the year comes to an end, we are taking a look back on the major data breaches and vulnerabilities that disrupted the security of both small, and large and very important organizations around the world and across all industries. According to a recently published report: As this trend is on the rise, governmental organizations and companies of every size put more emphasis on the security of their systems and networks.

Getting Started with SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online, a powerful tool within the Microsoft 365 suite, has revolutionized how businesses manage and collaborate on content. Whether you’re a small business owner, a corporate employee, or an IT professional, SharePoint Online offers a plethora of features to enhance productivity and streamline workflow. This guide aims to demystify SharePoint Online for beginners, providing a step-by-step approach to help you navigate and harness its full potential.

How to troubleshoot unschedulable Pods in Kubernetes

Kubernetes is built to scale, and with managed Kubernetes services, you can deploy a Pod without having to worry about capacity planning at all. So why is it that Pods sometimes become stuck in an "Unschedulable" state? How do you end up with Pods that have been "Pending" for several minutes? In this blog, we'll dig into the reasons Pods fail to schedule. We'll look at why it happens, how to troubleshoot it, and ways you can prevent it.

Ubuntu Confidential VMs on Azure: Introducing Ephemeral OS disks & vTPMs

As the adoption of confidential computing continues to grow, customers expect their confidential workloads to be strongly separated from their underlying cloud providers. To better align with these user requirements, Canonical is excited to announce ephemeral OS disks for Ubuntu confidential VMs (CVMs) on Microsoft Azure – a new solution that enables you to store disks on your VM’s OS cache disk or temp/resource disk, without needing to save to any remote Azure Storage.

Day 0, Day 1, Day 2 Operations: Putting it All Together on Day 2

Following good practices in the Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 software development lifecycle can help you create a consistent environment that is easier to maintain. In this blog, we will deepen your understanding of how to make Day 2 operations succeed, and how high performing teams put Puppet to work on Day 2 to make a stronger, less manual, software development lifecycle.

Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading

All incident.io developers are given a MacBook which they use for their development work. That meant when Apple released the M3 MacBook Pros in October, people naturally started asking questions like “wow, how much more productive might I be if my laptop looked that good?” and “perhaps we’d be more secure if our machines were Space Black 🤔” Pete’s (our CTO) response to this was “if you can prove it’s worthwhile, we’ll do it”

What's New in Serverless360: Scaling VMs up/down, Azure Automation runbooks management & monitoring.

Serverless360's latest update, version 3.2.0, brings a suite of enhancements. These include Azure Automation runbooks management and monitoring, Scaling VMs up/down between different service tiers in schedules, Synapse pipelines in optimization schedules, and much more.