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The Critical Role of Data in Cybersecurity: Why Incomplete Data Weakens Your Overall Program

In this live stream, CDW’s Brenden Morgenthaler and I discuss a foundational issue with many security programs — having the right data to detect issues and make fast decisions. Data drives every facet of security, so bad or incomplete data weakens your overall program. Watch the video or continue reading below to learn about these issues and the strategies we use to solve security’s data problem.

Pricing & Producthunt launch announcement

Since September, Spectate was free to use during the technical preview and later open beta phase. During this time, we have received immensely valuable feedback from all of you. Listening to feedback is something we'll never stop doing - as it makes Spectate even better bit by bit. First, let's talk about pricing. It's very hard to get this right, but we have decided on the following plans: The exact differences in features and limitations are listed on our pricing page.

Network Path Monitoring Pinpoints and Mitigates Connection Bottlenecks

An employee calls complaining about slow response time. Another one has similar trouble. No red lights are flashing on the Network Operations console, so the network is up and running. What is happening? Frankly, it could be just about anything: an overworked router, a runaway process on a laptop, a slow loading web page, or a bandwidth hog at home.

CloudDNS' geo-load balancing and redundancy ensure high availability and reliability

Cloud computing makes it easier for businesses to build and deploy applications that are accessible from anyplace in the world. But cloud computing also introduces new challenges, such as ensuring applications remain available even if there are network outages or unexpected spikes in traffic. ManageEngine CloudDNS provides a powerful geo-load balancing and redundancy feature that makes it easy to manage and distribute traffic across multiple servers and locations.

The AIOps journey: Navigating the path to proactive IT operations

In the modern IT era, most organizations are heavily on their IT infrastructure to stay relevant and competitive. However, managing complex IT systems can be a daunting task, as the volume of data grows and IT environments become more heterogeneous. To address these challenges, many organizations are turning towards artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps)—an approach that leverages AI and ML to streamline IT operations, improve efficiency, and reduce downtime.

Monitor external dependencies outages in Datadog

We're excited to announce a new feature release: the integration of IsDown with Datadog, a powerful addition to your cloud monitoring and SaaS monitoring toolkit. Datadog is a leading monitoring and analytics platform that provides full visibility into your infrastructure and applications. It allows you to track metrics, traces, and logs from various sources, giving you a comprehensive understanding of your environment's performance.

Workflow Automation For Small Businesses Can Make Work Easy

If you can harness the right solutions, automation can play a powerful role in elevating your workflows and enabling your business to reach new heights. Rather than embracing a wide range of different solutions, it’s often best to keep your technology stack small and nimble. Using too many automation tools can result in convoluted workflows. ‍

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Building vs. buying a digital experience monitoring tool

It's usually possible, and often tempting, to build your own tools. For engineers in particular, there's a strong appeal to having total control over a custom-built product that will perfectly meet your specific requirements. Raygun itself originally came from an internal tool we built to monitor errors in a different product. But as our business matured and we started to think more strategically, we recognized the hidden, lingering costs to our DIY approach, and began to believe that internal tools were a misuse of the time and skills of our development team.
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Airlines aiming to transform need modern Observability

The last decade has been nothing but a roller coaster ride for the airline industry. The pandemic has transformed it forever and now it needs to reevaluate its digital transformation priorities on how to manage traveler expectations. Taking it a step further, travelers buying behavior is changing farther as now they will want to book tickets while chatting with an AI interface. The transformation was already underway. In 2020, Google Cloud and Sabre announced a partnership to modernize Sabre. Recently, American Airlines announced their modern rebooking app launched in partnership with IBM. Lufthansa announced industry's first continuous pricing tailored to suit individual customer attributes.

Webinar: Let your SCOM alerts talk with ChatGPT

Are you tired of spending endless hours sifting through alerts and troubleshooting incidents manually? We have some exciting news that could revolutionize the way you manage alerts! Our friends at TopQore are hosting a webinar on April 12th at 4 PM CEST (Europe - Amsterdam time) that will introduce the integration of SCOM with ChatGPT, a powerful AI language model developed by OpenAI.