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Virtualization has been a rising trend in IT. A recent study of the server virtualization market revealed that in 2019, only half the servers in the world (55.6%) were purely physical, the remainder being virtual. Among virtual servers, VMware had the largest share at around 20.8%. The use of virtual servers has grown to the extent where this blog you’re currently reading is probably hosted on a virtual server.

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape companies are facing an increasing number of challenges in maintaining their IT infrastructure, and ensuring application stability. It is critical to stay on top of all the information to ensure the health of the organization and the business side of it. One of the ways to achieve visibility is to use a log monitoring tool to centralize the log data coming from each application and infrastructure element.

Kubernetes is a popular open-source container orchestration platform. It is highly configurable and feature-rich, but it also requires a deep understanding of containerization. When you are running Kubernetes in production, you need to account for cluster monitoring and logging, governance, and security. In this article, you will learn about Kubernetes security, including pro tips to help you handle architecture concerns, dependencies, and container vulnerabilities.

Networks today span the world and provide many connections between geographically disparate data centers, and public and private clouds. This creates a variety of network management problems. If your network is not working properly, it can be very difficult or even impossible to get the most productive or correct operation of your applications. A sophisticated network requires constant monitoring using the right tools and creating a network performance monitoring strategy.

When you set up on-premise digital infrastructure, it is crucial to enable your devices to communicate with each other. The devices on your network should be able to send and receive data packets to handle requests and send responses back to callers. One of the components that allow data transmission to the proper destination is the network switch. The network switch plays an important role in distributing data packets to devices.