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DNS in the Cloud- Solid or Not?

The Domain Name System (DNS) catalog maps text-based URLs to their specifically-numbered host systems. As the phone book or Yellow Pages of the internet, DNS governs the speed with which websites and online resources may be located, so the speed and robustness of your DNS service can have a profound impact on your internet performance overall.

How to build highly expressive check results with sensu-wrapper

I’m gearing up to attend my first Sensu Summit this year, and have gone back and watched last year’s talks that I missed. There were a lot of great talks! One technical talk that really caught my eye was Lee Briggs on sensu-wrapper. Lee introduced a wrapper utility he wrote to make it easier to use the Sensu client socket to monitor shell executables for correct operation. In this post, I’ll break down why his sensu-wrapper command is so useful.

Foglight for Virtualization 8.8 is here and its all about understanding the cost, not just the performance, of your hybrid datacenter

How much is Azure costing me? How much do my VMs cost me in my datacenter? Should I migrate to the Cloud? Understand the cost of my datacenter you ask?! You heard that correctly, FVE 8.8 is almost, almost, exclusively about managing the cost of running a hybrid datacenter.

KeywordHero: Saving you from the dreaded 'not provided' in Analytics

Organic keyword data, which was till now the essential around which SEO experts and digital agencies revolved, suddenly became “not provided” since 2011. Unless you were prepared to face the hardships, you had to wonder if there was an easier way out. KeywordHero assures to clear up the ‘not provided’ information that you see in your Google Analytics for any website. So, does it work as promised?

Modernizing Development with Continuous Shipping

Ahoy there. Continuous shipping: a concept many companies talk about but never get around to implementing. Ever wonder why that is? In the first post of this three-part series, we’ll go over(board) the concept of continuous shipping and why it’s valuable. Parts two and three will deep-dive into the process implementation. Buckle that life jacket; it’s time to set sail.

Striking a balance between speed and quality in continuous delivery

Over the past few years, we have accelerated into a fast-paced ‘everything now’ era. Endless tech-powered innovations are giving customers more choices than ever before. When developing new products and features, continuous delivery and rapid software release cycles are now the norms. Enterprises have to adapt, improve, and deliver solutions faster to stay competitive and meet changing customer needs.

How to leverage SIEM to meet the GDPR's requirements

Today’s businesses run on data. From getting customer information for payment, processing employee information for payroll, using publicly available data for targeted advertising, to tracking people’s behavior for marketing, data has become the power center of organizations. But with this increased emphasis on data, organizations are now burdened with greater responsibilities.