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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Preparation prior to a breach is critical to reducing recovery time and costs.” (RSAConference) For 83% of companies, a cyber incident is just a matter of time (IBM). And when it does happen, it will cost the organization millions, coming in at a global average of $4.35 million per breach. The damage isn’t only financial, nor solely related to customer loyalty and brand equity.

A few days ago, I spent about an hour with James Heng (Co-Founder & CTO of Piana) about their journey from the foundation of Piana to being a growing Fintech startup. As you will see in the article, unlike many of our customers, they started with Qovery from the very beginning. In this article, you might be surprised at how fast they were able to have a stable and scalable infrastructure.

Peering evaluations are now so much easier. PeeringDB, the database of networks and the go-to location for interconnection data, is now integrated into Kentik and available to all Kentik customers at no additional cost.

When you’re just starting as a network engineer, an IP address conflict can be a difficult issue to resolve. In this post, we’ll look at what an IP address conflict is and why it occurs. Then, we’ll talk about the types of IP address conflicts and the ways to fix them. We’ll also discuss how to detect and prevent IP address conflicts. Detection and prevention can be done best with certain tools, so we’ll learn about the top five tools to use.

Did you know that 88% of online consumers are less likely to return to a website after a bad user experience? This means that no matter how small, website errors can significantly impact your website's traffic and revenue. As a website owner or manager, it's crucial to identify and fix common errors to ensure your website runs smoothly and provides an exceptional user experience. But where do you start? With so many potential issues that can arise, it can be overwhelming to know what to prioritize.

Azure OpenAI is a service for deploying AI applications on Azure resources. With its easy-to-use REST APIs, you can leverage the service to access OpenAI’s powerful language models, such as ChatGPT, for your applications while taking advantage of the reliability and security of the Azure platform. Datadog already offers an out-of-the-box integration for OpenAI so you can monitor key performance trends, such as API usage patterns, token consumption, and more.

Migrating your on-prem applications to Azure can help you improve scalability, reliability, and security. It can also help reduce costs and free your engineering teams to focus on innovation and performance optimization. But it can be hard to understand Azure costs as they evolve during your migration and to see how they correlate with your resource utilization once you’re up and running in Azure.

Many organizations have faced the complex challenges that come with mainframe monitoring. MIPS-based cost models make native mainframe software expensive, and deploying individual agents to user desktops and devices is difficult to maintain and scale.

A server monitoring tool is software that monitors the operation and general health of servers and other components of IT infrastructure. These tools continuously track and gather information on a variety of parameters, such as CPU utilization, memory usage, disc space consumption, network traffic, and application performance. So, you get real-time insights into a server’s functionality and health, and IT specialists can identify and address issues before they affect end users.

IT asset discovery is a critical process for any organization looking to manage its IT infrastructure effectively. With a rapid growth of dependency on technology for everyday work, and an increasing amount of remote work, keeping track of all hardware and software assets within an organization can be challenging. And this is where IT asset discovery tools come in to help you through the process. These solutions provide clear and reliable access to everything connected to your company network.