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Enhanced Security, Improved Performance Reporting with DX UIM 20.4 Cumulative Update 7

In today's fast-paced digital world, keeping up with the latest technology advancements is crucial for businesses to stay ahead of the competition. This is especially true in the world of IT infrastructure management, where technology is rapidly evolving and new solutions are being developed to meet the changing needs of businesses.

Best Practices to Build IoT Analytics | InfluxData

This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Selecting the tools that best fit your IoT data and workloads at the outset will make your job easier and faster in the long run. Today, Internet of Things (IoT) data or sensor data is all around us. Industry analysts project the number of connected devices worldwide to be a total of 30.9 billion units by 2025, up from 12.7 billion units in 2021.

SNMP Monitoring: What is SNMP & How to Use It

Are you tired of constantly running back and forth to check the status of your network devices? Do you wish you had a magic wand that could tell you everything you need to know about your network at a glance? Well, unfortunately, we can't give you a magic wand, but we can give you something pretty close: SNMP monitoring!

From Monolithic to Microservices: Code Instrumentation Trends

Software architectures are greatly influenced by the size and scale of the software applications. With growing size, the code base becomes complex. With scale, the deployment becomes challenging. The result: debugging becomes an increasingly time-consuming process for developers.

Cloud Capacity Planning Is a Hit-or-Miss Exercise That Mostly Misses

The goal of capacity planning is to match resources with demand. There are essentially three outcomes from this analysis. You can underestimate the resources you need (underprovision), which can hurt performance. You can overestimate (overprovision), which adds unnecessary costs. Or you can get it just right (rightsized). And, of course, you want to be rightsized at the lowest possible cost. Because many factors go into cloud capacity planning, it can feel like more of an art than a science.

How Digital Accessibility Solutions Can Benefit Your Website

As the digital world continues to expand and evolve, it's becoming increasingly important for businesses to consider accessibility when designing their online presence. With this comes a variety of digital accessibility solutions that can help ensure everyone on the web can access your content with ease. Understanding what these solutions are, the benefits they offer, and how you can incorporate them into your website is key to ensuring an inclusive user experience that caters to a wide range of visitors.

Reducing Log Volume with Log-based Metrics

As the amount of telemetry being collected continues to grow exponentially, businesses are continuously seeking cost-effective ways to monitor and analyze their systems. Data collection and monitoring can be expensive, especially when dealing with large volumes of logs. One approach to maintaining visibility while reducing the amount of data collected is through creating log-based metrics.
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What is Platform Engineering and Why Does It Matter?

In the era of cloud-native development, as businesses rely on a growing number of software tools to enable agile application delivery, platform engineering has emerged as a crucial discipline for building the technology platforms that drive DevOps efficiency. In this blog post, we explain the growing importance of platform engineering in high-performance DevOps organizations and how platform teams enable DevOps efficiency, agility, and productivity.

Five worthy reads: Multi-cloud strategy in the digital era

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week we are exploring the multi-cloud strategy and why its the next biggest thing in cloud computing. In an age where digital innovations happen at breakneck speed, the cloud has become crucial to every enterprise.

Monitoring: The Rise of Data Observability

There’s an increasingly high cost to poor data quality today. Poor customer data costs companies six percent of their total sales, as per a UK Royal Mail study. And, as per IBM, bad data costs U.S. businesses $3.1 trillion per year. As companies transform into data-driven businesses, we witness a sharp interest in data observability.