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Coffee Break: SCOM Update Rollup 1

Heard about the SCOM Update Rollup 1 but unsure of exactly what it includes? Let Shawn Williams, SquaredUp Technical Evangelist and Leon Laude, SCOM Consultant and author of popular ‘The System Center Blog’ break it down for you. Among other topics, they will cover updates announced at Ignite 2019 vs what’s been included, new features and fixes, a step-by-step guide to updating and the most useful resources to get started.

Release Webinar: SquaredUp 4.6

Join our Senior Product Team for an in-depth tour of SquaredUp v4.6. John Shaw (Chief Product Officer) and John Knowles (Director of Products) will take you through the impressive product enhancements included in our latest release. Improvements spanning both our SCOM and Azure products include Dark Theme Open Access and Dashboard Pack upgrades. Azure-specific upgrades include deeper insights from Azure Cost Management, Azure Lighthouse support and an improved trial and install experience.

How to Add a Device | Obkio's Network Device Monitoring Solution Installation Tutorial

In this short video, Obkio CEO, Jean-Francois Levesque, teaches you how to quickly set up and monitor a device using Obkio's Network Device Monitoring Solution. Obkio's Device Monitoring feature is a fast and easy solution to help you get detailed information about the health of devices, such as as firewalls, routers, switches wifi access points, and other devices crucial for IT teams. Used with the end-to-end Network Performance Monitoring feature, it helps IT teams pinpoint issues quickly and efficiently.

#ITConnections - Unified Communications Delivery Challenges

Managing the customer lifecycle efficiently becomes even more critical when we see an unprecedented shift to remote work as we have in the past few months. How can you continue to deliver exceptional service quality as demand from remote workers surge?

An Exploration of Runtime Metrics: Node's Event Loop

What Are Runtime Metrics? Runtime metrics can help us understand how an application is performing. SolarWinds® AppOptics™, a SaaS-based, full-stack infrastructure and application monitoring tool, now reports four categories of runtime metrics: CPU, memory, garbage collection times, and event loop times. Each metric category provides a view into how resources are used by an application.

Elastic Observability in SRE and Incident Response

Software services are at the heart of modern business in the digital age. Just look at the apps on your smartphone. Shopping, banking, streaming, gaming, reading, messaging, ridesharing, scheduling, searching — you name it. Society runs on software services. The industry has exploded to meet demands, and people have many choices on where to spend their money and attention. Businesses must compete to attract and retain customers who can switch services with the swipe of a thumb.

Monitor ProxySQL with Datadog

ProxySQL is a MySQL/MariaDB protocol–compliant load balancer and reverse proxy with native support for a range of popular backends including ClickHouse, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon RDS. ProxySQL efficiently distributes queries to your database servers and caches results, improving resource management and boosting database performance. You can also configure ProxySQL for high availability to reduce downtime.

5 major risks that impact vulnerable network devices

Working from home has become our new normal, with many of our jobs being performed remotely. The experience of working remotely can be as seamless as it was from our workplace, with all the technological advancements available today. Businesses have also put network security on the forefront by implementing use of virtual private networks (VPNs). This enables users to securely access confidential information hosted on the organizations’ servers.

What Is Cloud Monitoring? Features, Benefits & More

93% of businesses use cloud services, and many are looking forward to investing more in it. Which means almost everyone nowadays is using cloud in some form or another. If any part of your infrastructure is in the cloud, then you must monitor it. This article will show you the features and benefits of cloud monitoring. We’ve also covered how cloud monitoring can help in the current pandemic situation.