Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig. Our team continues to work hard to bring great new features to all of our customers, automatically and for free! We hope you all managed to make it through January, and happy Lunar New Year! February welcomes the launch of our always-popular fourth annual Sysdig Container Security and Usage report, which looks at how global Sysdig customers of all sizes and industries are using and securing container environments.
Image vulnerability scanning is a critical first line of defense for security with containers and Kubernetes. Today, Red Hat recognized Sysdig as a certified Red Hat security partner based on our work to standardize on Red Hat’s published security data with Sysdig Secure.
Most of you are familiar with the roles and profiles method of writing and classifying Puppet code. However, the roles and profiles method doesn’t have to exist only in your control repository. In fact, as I’ve been developing Puppet code centered around compliance, I’ve found that adapting the roles and profiles method into a design pattern to Puppet modules makes the code more auditable, reusable, and maintainable!
A key decision that must be made in a product’s lifecycle is SaaS vs Hosted. Should we be only employing the use of hosted solutions, or are we going to utilize SaaS offerings? Hosted solutions are services from providers like AWS and Azure, that take away the operational burden from some well-known pieces of tech, like Kafka or Grafana. SaaS solutions on the other hand are platforms like Coralogix, that offer proprietary value. They each offer benefits and drawbacks. Let’s get into it.
Observability and Monitoring are viewed by many as interchangeable terms. This is not the case. While they are interlinked, they are not interchangeable. There are actually very clear and defined differences between them. Monitoring is asking your system questions about its current state. Usually these are performance related, and there are many open source monitoring tools available. Many of those available are also specialized.
Today we will share our list of the most popular software tools used by education institutions. Why is this important? If you are managing technology in education you need to make the best choice from among many available tools. Discovering the most popular tools used by other education professionals can help you make an informed choice. After reading the report you’ll know which tools are relied upon by primary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities in the United States.
“Today’s an exciting day for LogicMonitor. But before I share our news, I want to sincerely thank our customers for your business. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a terrible experience for the world, and yet we @ LogicMonitor are fortunate and thankful to be counted on every day by thousands of organizations. I — and our team of over 650 employees worldwide — are grateful for the chance to serve your organizations during these turbulent times”
In the Modern era of application development, businesses move towards building highly available, fault-tolerant, zero downtime applications to make the user experience and performance smoother and better. One of the essential steps in that process is containerization and orchestration of an application. A Container Monitoring process is as vital as containerizing your application.
Written by Nick Cavalancia, Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter MVP The increase in reliance upon Office 365 as an organization’s digital workspace has led many organizations to measure Office 365 against how well users interact with it rather than if it’s running.
