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In today’s banking environment, a smooth IT Assets Onboarding process is extremely important. It minimizes disruptions, accelerates the deployment of new technologies, and ensures that all systems function cohesively. It is important in the banking sector, where even minor delays or errors can have a huge impact.

What’s the point of observability? Surely if you write good code, maintain it, handle tech debt, and administer its resources correctly, it’ll run great? Why would you need to keep a close eye on services that have already been tested and are working great? In this article I want to show how continuous monitoring of your systems closely, with tools like Checkly and Coralogix, can find problems that would have been impossible to predict or pre-optimize.

Are you familiar with CFEngines special variables? Probably you are familiar with sys variables like sys.fqhost (the fully qualified host name) and sys.policy_hub (the IP address of the machine the host is bootstrapped to) but I want to highlight a few other special variables you may not be so familiar with.

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, managing extensive document volumes in SharePoint Online is a challenging task for any organization. As businesses expand, there is an increasing demand for efficient, cost-effective storage solutions that provide space savings, ensure compliance, and offer easy access. Squirrel is a cutting-edge SaaS solution designed to automate the archiving process by moving documents from SharePoint Online to Azure Blob Storage.

We are thrilled to introduce the latest update to the Alloy Navigator mobile app, now featuring asset management and equipment reservation capabilities!

We’ve had a fantastic month celebrating 20 years of Nexthink and taking time to reflect on the people, products, and innovations that have shaped the company. Today, Nexthink is a category creator, an industry defining brand reshaping how IT teams manage the digital workplace. But that wasn’t always the case. Let's take a moment to recap some of our favourite content from the month celebrating the last 20 years of Nexthink.

Picture this: you’re working on a big project with tight deadlines, juggling multiple pull requests, and just when you think you’re getting ahead, you hit a merge conflict that throws everything into chaos. Your inbox is flooded with GitHub notifications, you’ve lost track of which issues are the most urgent, and the code review feedback is as clear as mud. Sound familiar? Well, you’re not alone.

We're excited to share the latest enhancements to the ilert incident management platform! We’d be delighted to receive your feedback on these new features, so feel free to message us at support@ilert.com. Additionally, you can always leave feature requests on our open roadmap.

Ensuring smooth transitions during application upgrades are important. Maintaining system consistency and stability with a database upgrade is paramount. Databases are complex systems with numerous stored procedures, each intricately linked to critical functionalities. Changes to these procedures during an upgrade could potentially disrupt overall system performance and negatively impact thousands of customers.

For DevOps and platform teams working with containers and Kubernetes, reducing downtime and improving security posture is crucial. A clear understanding of network topology, service interactions, and workload dependencies is required in cloud-native applications. This is essential for securing and optimizing the Kubernetes deployment and minimizing response time in the event of failure.