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High availability and flawless performance of business applications are vital to maintaining a company’s online reputation and keeping its customers satisfied. If a business-critical application crashes, frustrated users may abandon the service, leading to a loss in brand value and revenue. Internal business application performance issues can also cause a drop in employee productivity. To prevent these performance issues, enterprises turn to application performance monitoring solutions.

This is the second in a three-part series on Taming Complexity for Competitive Advantage. Part I of this series discusses the need to develop orchestration strategies to deal with the complexities of integrating cross-domain infrastructure. In part II, we introduce the temporal element of change, including the integration technology journeys brought on by mergers and acquisitions.

In today's digital age, a reliable and high-speed Internet connection is vital for the smooth operation of businesses. From communication and collaboration to accessing cloud-based services and online transactions, a stable internet connection is crucial for ensuring productivity and efficiency. However, despite the advancements in technology, network issues can still arise, leading to frustrating downtime and hampering business operations.

By automating capacity planning for IP networks, we can achieve cost reduction, enhanced accuracy, and better scalability. This process requires us to collect data, build predictive models, define optimization objectives, design decision algorithms, and carry out consistent monitoring and adjustment. However, the initial investment is large and the result will still require human oversight.

The panel discussion “From Machine Data to Business Insights, Building the Foundations of Industrial Analytics” discussed modern methods and benefits of deriving insights from machine data. InfluxDB Developer Advocate Jay Clifford explained the trend now is to “allow the builders to bring the Lego blocks and build them together how they see fit.

Achieve lower TCO and keep full control of your data with Aiven’s Bring Your Own Cloud deployment option.

For software developers around the world, Git is considered to be one of the most popular version control systems, if not the most popular one. Git allows you to track changes to your codebase and collaborate with other developers. But sometimes, managing Git to perform large or complex operations in your repositories can be overwhelming. Using a Git GUI can make all the difference. Let’s explore the advantages of using GitKraken Client with your repositories hosted on GitHub.

Cortex has raised $35m in Series B financing. New investor IVP led the round alongside Craft Ventures, with participation from existing investors Sequoia, Tiger Global, and YCombinator. Cack Wilhelm of IVP joined our board.

Sure techies and digital professionals use cloud storage, but what about you, the average Joe? You don’t have a ton of digital information, just pictures and the occasional Word docs or PDFs, so do you need it? Whether you believe it or not, data plays a huge, pivotal role in our personal and professional lives, and having a reliable and efficient storage solution is crucial. Losing some data, though rare, is a surefire way to make your life more difficult.

DevOps and Agile are some of the most prominent concepts in modern IT. Agile emerged at the turn of the century to help development teams become more efficient than with previous approaches. Several years later, around 2010, DevOps emerged as we know it today to enable development and operations teams to deliver better software products, more quickly, and together. These two approaches have a lot in common, including inflated expectations.