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SUSE Enterprise Storage: What next?

Late last year, SUSE completed their acquisition of Rancher Labs, and in doing so, has had to make some decisions on their product roadmap and ongoing support commitments. SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE’s software-defined storage product based on Ceph, doesn’t appear to have made the cut. According to their support pages, it is scheduled for End of Life with milestones in January 2021 and 2022.

How to Pivot Your Data in Flux: Working with Columnar Data

Relational databases are by far the most common type of database, and as software developers it’s safe to say that they are the kind of database most of us got started on, and probably still use on a regular basis. And one thing that they all have in common is the way they structure data. InfluxDB, however, structures data a little bit differently.

Announcing an integrated solution to activate ESG across the enterprise

Over the past decade, the world has experienced remarkable changes and unprecedented challenges. Every year sees a sharp increase in natural disasters driven by a global rise in carbon emissions, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Mass protests have underscored the need for a more inclusive society and workplace. The pandemic has highlighted the importance of business continuity. As global citizens, we have the responsibility to leave the world better than we found it.

Activating ESG strategies and initiatives to improve business and the world

Around the world, more organizations are championing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives to help create a more sustainable, equitable, and ethical world, build stakeholder trust, and drive ESG impact and business value. There’s a good reason: ESG drives better business outcomes—and it makes the world better. For many, meeting ESG goals is a challenge. That’s because ESG spans a lot of different types of activities across the enterprise.

Network monitor 101: All about network monitors

With the increase in the number of organizations that have a sizable network infrastructure, the need for a network monitor also increases substantially. With properly established network monitoring protocols in place, organizations can work more efficiently, have more visibility over their network devices, and avoid unexpected downtimes and network issues.

General availability announcement

After nearly 2 years of perfecting our product during our beta phase and just over 5 months since we opened for early access, I have great pleasure in announcing that Civo is now 'General Availability'. It's taken us over 4 years to get to where we are today, with a colossal amount of work being contributed by our team to build the Civo platform and developer eco-system. I can honestly say that we're lucky to have so many amazing people at Civo.

New Trends In Network-As-A-Service

Enterprise adoption of what has become known as Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) is being spurred by several factors, not least of which is the ‘technical hangover’ exposed by the global pandemic. Find out how the consumerisation of IT, the shift from capex to opex consumption of enterprise services, and the need to respond to changing market dynamics quickly, are all creating the perfect storm for NaaS adoption...

Configuration, Access, and Connection to GCP CloudSQL for PostgreSQL

GCP is increasingly being used by teams all over. In this blog, Uzziah explains how CloudSQL is Google Cloud Platform’s solution that provides a managed PostgreSQL and MySQL server. Relational databases are the preferred choice for persisting data in most non-trivial applications. CloudSQL is Google Cloud Platform’s solution that provides a managed PostgreSQL and MySQL server.

7 reasons why you need an Alert Management solution

As a modern enterprise your digital infrastructure – in all likelihood – is a multi-tiered, evolving, and expanding combination of services built on next-gen technologies. This dynamic configuration of servers, networks, applications, routers, etc. provides you with the agility to respond to rapidly changing customer demands. But it also tests the resilience of your digital infrastructure. Each microservice, each integration, each little update can snowball into a major outage.