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Traditional IT CMDB vs. Data Center CMDB: What's the Difference?

When it comes to managing IT and data center assets, organizations often rely on a Configuration Management Database (CMDB). But not all CMDBs are created equal. While a traditional IT CMDB helps track hardware, software, and configurations, a Data Center CMDB is specifically designed to manage the physical infrastructure, capacity, and dependencies within a data center. Understanding the differences between these two types of CMDBs is critical for optimizing operations and ensuring complete visibility.

The Risks of Not Replacing Skype for Business Before its End of Life

If your organization uses Skype for Business for collaboration, it’s time to start thinking about your next communication platform. On Oct. 15, 2025, Microsoft will stop supporting Skype for Business. As a result, the platform’s performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and other bugs will no longer be fixed. There’s still time to move to a new platform before Skype for Business is no longer supported.

Migrating from Generic to Custom Attestations: A zero-trust approach to compliance

The kosli attest generic CLI command can attest anything, but unlike a “typed” attestation (such as kosli attest snyk), it does not calculate a true/false compliance value for you. Customers have reported that while a generic “escape hatch” is useful, it nevertheless has some drawbacks: Based on this feedback we’ve implemented a new attest command called kosli attest custom.

1st Live AMA with GitLens Creator Eric Amodio | Feb 13, 1pm EST

What questions would you ask the creator of GitLens? Whether you’re a power user or new to GitLens and have basic questions, we’d love to hear from you. Join us for a live AMA with Eric Amodio, the creator of GitLens on February 13th at 1 PM EST. GitLens has evolved significantly since it began as a simple blame and annotations extension for VS Code. Now, we invite you to ask questions, gain insights, and hear Eric’s perspective on any topics you're curious about.

Monitor Amazon Kinesis Firehose in Hosted Graphite

We’ve supported syncing your metrics from Kinesis Streams, Amazon’s streaming data platform, for several years. Kinesis Streams helps you gather and process streaming data which can then be monitored in your Hosted Graphite account. Recently, we’ve added support for Firehose, a fully managed and scalable service that allows users to stream data to destinations like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, or Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES).

Simple Talks Podcast | S2, Episode 2 - Introducing a new PostgreSQL book!

In this week's podcast, we are doing our very first "special episode". Two of the Redgate Advocates (Ryan Booz and Grant Fritchey) have written a book on PostgreSQL titled "Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional". So Louis sat down when them and asked them about the book, the process of creating it, and much more.

NGINX Log Monitoring: What It Is, How to Get Started, and Fix Issues

Ensuring that your web applications run smoothly and securely is essential. NGINX, known for its high performance and scalability, plays a key role in delivering web content. But to keep everything running efficiently, you need to monitor and analyze its logs properly. This guide will walk you through how to configure, analyze, and make the most of NGINX logs to stay on top of your server’s health.

How to Monitor Error Logs in Real-Time: An In-Depth Guide

For system admins and developers, being able to track error logs in real time is crucial. It’s not just about fixing problems; it’s about keeping everything running smoothly, ensuring systems perform at their best, and catching issues before they snowball into bigger ones. This guide breaks down the tools and commands that make real-time log monitoring easier and more effective, offering more than just the basics.

Product Release Notes January 2025

In the last few weeks, industry headlines once again brought the need for businesses to have complete cost visibility and proactive cost management strategies to the forefront of the constantly accelerating cloud and AI landscape. That’s why we’re excited to announce our latest product releases, designed to supercharge your cloud cost intelligence with deeper integrations into industry leaders like AWS and OpenAI.

Top 9 Endpoint Management Software Solutions: Expert Picks

With cyber threats on the rise and IT environments growing more complex, organizations need reliable Endpoint Management software to ensure security, compliance, and operational efficiency. There are many endpoint solutions out there, so to help you out, we’ve put our extensive experience in IT Management and security into analyzing and narrowing down a list of the best platforms. We paired this with reviews and expert opinions to bring you the most informed recommendations.