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Lessons from hybrid working: Are businesses and networks coping?

Mar 27, 2023 By Alex Hawkes In Console Connect

Almost three years into the hybrid working experiment and for some, the unintended pilot has turned into an adopted model, while for others the IT complexities of dealing with a remote workforce remain a persistent headache. Although hybrid or remote working are not new concepts, there are several reasons it wasn’t a widely adopted model prior to the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020. Many of those reasons are cultural, but some are purely technical.

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What is System Hardening? Definition and Best practices

Mar 27, 2023 By Henry Coggill In Canonical

System hardening means locking down a system and reducing its attack surface: removing unnecessary software packages, securing default values to the tightest possible settings and configuring the system to only run what you explicitly require. Let’s take an example from daily life.

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5 DevOps Skills Every Engineer Should Have In The Cloud Era

Mar 27, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero

DevOps doesn’t necessarily look like it used to. Engineers used to build software designed for on-prem hardware; they had a specific methodology for efficient production and distribution schedules; and they didn’t interface very much with non-engineers, if at all. Today, all that has been flipped upside-down. Cloud-era DevOps engineers now must possess wildly different skill sets, and some previously non-negotiable skills have faded into the past.

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CircleCI Technical Demo + Q&A

Mar 27, 2023 By CircleCI In CircleCI

Join us for a high level tour of CircleCI, and learn how to most effectively utilize the platform’s features and capabilities. Every first and third Wednesday, we’ll be offering a technical demo so you can learn best practices and have all your CircleCI questions answered. Topics Covered: How it works: the nuts and bolts of the product Why CircleCI can make developers’ jobs easier and more rewarding How CircleCI can support your security posture by ensuring organizational policies and guardrails are met Greater visibility by surfacing trends and status across your organization

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Intro to Config Migration

Mar 27, 2023 By CircleCI In CircleCI

In this webinar, you will learn from real life case studies how to avoid migration roadblocks and how CircleCI is set up to support you in implementing a predictable migration strategy. In addition, Brian O’Halloran, Senior Solutions Engineer, and Zan Markan, Senior Developer Advocate, explain how CircleCI is built differently, and how it can adapt to the needs of your software delivery process.

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What does CloudCheckr offer for Azure Cost Optimization and its Considerations?

Mar 27, 2023 By Arunprabhu Muthusamy In Turbo360

CloudCheckr is a SaaS application that helps bring visibility and intelligence to help you lower cloud costs, maintain security and compliance, and optimize resources. The platform supports managing costs between cloud providers like AWS and Azure. This article explores the features and benefits of CloudCheckr in Azure.

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Hacking the Cloud and Things to Watch Out for - Civo.com

Mar 27, 2023 By Civo In Civo

Why should we be discussing cloud security in terms of internal infrastructure? This is exactly what Gillian Vanhauwaert from Defense.com spoke about in the final talk of the evening, as she outlined how aspects such as vendor lock-in, external facing, and phishing can impact your journey into the cloud.

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Five Trends from SREcon Americas 2023

Mar 27, 2023 By Gavin Cahill In Gremlin

Last week, over five hundred SREs gathered in Santa Clara to share the latest research, tips, tricks, best practices, and more for site reliability engineering. They were joined by some of the biggest names in the reliability space. And, yes, Gremlin was there to answer any and all questions about chaos engineering and proactive reliability. After three days of great conversations and insightful talk, let’s take a look at some of the themes we heard weaving through SRECon.

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The Evolution of Incident Management from On-Call to SRE

Mar 24, 2023 By Vardhan NS In Squadcast

Incident Management has evolved considerably over the last couple of decades. Traditionally having been limited to just an on-call team and an alerting system, today it has evolved to include automated Incident Response combined with a complex set of SRE workflows.

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Understanding Azure Blob Storage Pricing: Key Factors, Tradeoffs, and Challenges

Mar 24, 2023 By Mark In SmiKar Software

Azure Blob Storage is a scalable, cost-effective storage solution provided by Microsoft Azure. It is designed for storing massive amounts of unstructured data, including text, images, videos, and more. One of the key benefits of using Azure Blob Storage is its flexible pricing model, which allows users to pay for only the storage capacity and features they need.

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