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Full visibility of Microsoft Azure cloud service health - resolve issues before they impact on your customers.

For large digital enterprises Microsoft Azure and private cloud offering Azure Stack Hub have emerged as the strategic cloud platforms of choice for many organizations. Azure offers an open and flexible platform on which to quickly build, deploy and manage applications at scale.

Why integrate SCOM with anywhere?

While SCOM is a valuable monitoring tool, you may also be using a suite of monitoring tools, such as SolarWinds to monitor network devices, VROps to monitor VMware, and Nagios to monitor your Linux devices, as all these tools are best in class. But, you don’t want to be looking in numerous different consoles to gather all your monitoring data!

Bi-Directional Integration for SCOM & your ITSM Tools

Bi-directional sync enables data to be sent to and from SCOM and your ITSM tools, in the following ways: a) OUTBOUND Notifications (PUSHES alerts from SCOM to another tool) b) INBOUND Notifications (PULLS updates on alerts into SCOM from another tool) This means you can choose which SCOM alerts to send across to your ITSM tools (Cherwell or ServiceNow), they are then raised as incidents, and then using bi-directional sync, info relating to the incidents is pulled back into SCOM (Incident ID, Configurat

Incident Review - Akamai Performance Degradation Slows Down Major Websites Worldwide

This summer has seen a series of outages and performance degradations from some of the world’s most widely used CDNs, including the June 8, 2021 Fastly outage (owing to DNS or configuration issues) and an Akamai outage on July 22, 2021 (also likely caused by DNS failure).

AppDynamics vs. Dynatrace vs. Scout | A Side-by-Side Comparison

Choosing the perfect Application Performance Monitoring tool for your business always remains a tricky decision. There are so many options in the market, and each alternative has its own set of features and flaws. Sometimes, the profile of two solutions overlaps, which creates an even bigger grey area around which to opt.

Difference Between IPv4 and IPv6: Why haven't We Entirely Moved to IPv6?

IPv4 and IPv6 are the two versions of IP. IPv4 was first released in 1983 and is currently widely used as an IP address for a variety of systems. It aids in the identification of systems in a network through the use of an address. The 32-bit address, which may store multiple addresses, is employed. Despite this, it is the most widely used internet protocol, controlling the vast bulk of internet traffic. IPv6 was created in 1994 and is referred to as the "next generation" protocol.

An Introduction to Distributed Tracing

There’s no strict definition of a distributed system. But generally speaking, if you have reached a point where you’re running more than five interdependent services at once, that means you’re running a distributed system. It also means you are more than likely experiencing difficulties when troubleshooting using traditional debugging tools. Unfortunately, pulling up multiple tools, each built for a monolithic world, doesn’t help pinpoint the problem.