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Why you Need WiFi Observability in the Era of Work From Anywhere

“Work from anywhere” is now a common occurrence. With so many companies now dependent on a distributed workforce, IT teams need to be able to quickly diagnose and troubleshoot WiFi problems. Moreover, they, themselves, are often working remotely. In order to successfully do their jobs, consistent WiFi is obviously essential for remote workers.

EC2 Reserved Instance: Everything You Need to Know

An Amazon Reserved Instance (RI) is one of the most powerful cost savings tools available on AWS. It’s officially described as a billing discount applied to the use of an on-demand instance in your account. To truly understand what RI is, we need to take a step back and look at the different payment options for AWS.

Migrating to DX APM FAQs

Migrating to Broadcom’s next-generation DX APM will provide you with the benefits of a modern architecture, high scalability, and comprehensive observability. With its advanced capabilities, the platform can support your organization’s monitoring needs long into the future. For your convenience, below is a summary of frequently asked questions and answers on migrating to DX APM.

High Five: The Latest Integrations from Splunk, Microsoft and GitHub

Hello Splunk Nation! Welcome to the latest roundup of Splunk integrations with Microsoft and GitHub! Hopefully, you had a chance to virtually attend.conf21 and check out all the amazing content. For those of you who missed it, we’re recapping the Microsoft, GitHub and Splunk highlights below.

Responsible For Your O365 Budget? Rightsize Your Licenses Now To Avoid Extra Cost!

Pricing for most Microsoft 365 (M365) and Office 365 (O365) suites are due to increase on 1 March 2022 by up to a whopping 25%, prompting many I&O leaders to assess their Microsoft cost optimization options before their next renewal. Microsoft first revealed the price increase on 19 August 2021, and are justifying the decision by making a wider set of features and services available, such as security, audio services or device/user management, regardless of whether they’re required.

Accelerating Cloud Monitoring via the Logz.io Azure Native Integration

Watch this Logz.io and the Azure Cloud team webinar to learn about the Logz.io Azure Marketplace native integration. More specifically, about: Collecting logs from Azure resources or applications in minutes with Logz.io — all within the Azure Portal. Integrate Logz.io with Active Directory SSO for access control. Collect their logs through a new “pay for what you use” pricing model — rather than committing to log volumes and plans upfront.

The 9 best Real User Monitoring tools for 2021: A comparison report

Real User Monitoring (RUM) provides visibility into the performance experience of live users interacting with your web, mobile, or single-page apps. RUM tools emerged to bridge the gap between application performance metrics and the impact on real people. These days, user experience is increasingly factored into the development process, but that still doesn’t stop slowdowns.

DevOps and monitoring: the perfect pair when they work together

Organizations throughout the globe have been working for years trying to find more efficient ways to remove the barriers hindering the speed at which computing services and applications are rolled out to market. These barriers often present challenges for how DevOps and monitoring work together. Between the requirements-and-design phase, to planning and development, to testing, software projects can take between 4 to 9 months to complete depending on their size and complexity.