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Maximizing Efficiency and Savings: Explore Virtana's Latest Innovations to IPM and Cloud Cost Management

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, where IT infrastructure and cloud costs play a pivotal role, organizations demand advanced solutions that streamline operations, optimize performance, and drive cost efficiency. Virtana, a trailblazer in infrastructure monitoring and observability and true multicloud cost management, has taken another leap forward by introducing a host of groundbreaking features to our flagship products.

4 ways to master employee growth and development with AI

Amid the whirlwind of today's job market and ever-evolving economy, one critical key to an organization's success emerges: empowering employees with growth opportunities that both entice top talent and secure the future of your business. As millennials and Gen Z progressively make up more of the workforce, investing in their career growth has become crucial to the future health of any organization.

Performance Testing: Types, Tools & Best Practices

To maximize the performance and value of your software apps, networks and systems, it’s critical to eliminate performance bottlenecks. Performance testing has become critical in every organization to reveal and fix performance bottlenecks, ensuring the best experience to end users. This article explains what performance testing is, its importance, and the various types of performance testing.

Cloud Analytics 101: Uses, Benefits and Platforms

Cloud analytics is the process of storing and analyzing data in the cloud and using it to extract actionable business insights. Simply one shade of data analytics, cloud analytics algorithms are applied to large data collections to identify patterns, predict future outcomes and produce other information useful to business decision-makers.

From Disruptions to Resilience: The Role of Splunk Observability in Business Continuity

In today's market, companies undergoing digital transformation require secure and reliable systems to meet customer demands, handle macroeconomic uncertainty and navigate new disruptions. Digital resilience is key to providing an uninterrupted customer experience and adapting to new operating models. Companies that prioritize digital resilience can proactively prevent major issues, absorb shocks to digital systems and accelerate transformations.

Reducing Mean Time to Diagnosis: How Salary Finance Uses Honeycomb to Ask the Right Questions

Salary Finance is a UK-based financial well-being employee benefit program. Over the last seven years, the company grew from a startup to a scaleup, earning rave reviews along the way from its more than 4,000 customers. However, with fast growth also comes natural growing pains. As their customer base expanded, so did the number of incidents they experienced, which also became harder to diagnose due to lack of visibility into their increasingly complex environment.

CloudOps: Transforming IT Operations in the Cloud

CloudOps, or Cloud Operations, is quickly becoming the standard for managing IT operations in the cloud computing ecosystem. By transforming traditional IT operations to harness the full potential of the cloud, businesses are experiencing greater automation, collaboration, agility, and resilience. This article is a deep dive into the concept of CloudOps, its core components, the advantages it offers, and the steps necessary to implement it effectively within an organization.

What is data portability & why should businesses care about it?

If you wanted to switch from one project management tool to another, what would happen to your data? As more and more business operations undergo digital transformations and move online, organizations have become more reliant than ever on their digital data. Many take for granted that their data is their own and that they can take it with them if they change tools. But for those who rely on third-party tools, control of data may not be so simple.

5 Steps to An Easy, Error-free Load Balancer Sanity Reboot

It’s one of the main use cases fit for network automation: the load balancer sanity reboot. Not to be left to manual executions, this long, tiresome task creates too much possibility for errors. Negative effects like unnecessary time and money spent are detriments that organizations can avoid, simply by automating the types of tasks—like load balancer sanity reboots—that include loads of repetitive steps.

Managing your applications on Amazon ECS EC2-based clusters with Elastic Observability

In previous blogs, we explored how Elastic Observability can help you monitor various AWS services and analyze them effectively: One of the more heavily used AWS container services is Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service). While there is a trend toward using Fargate to simplify the setup and management of ECS clusters, many users still prefer using Amazon ECS with EC2 instances.