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SolarWinds® Papertrail™ now supports SAML v2.0, which makes Papertrail even faster and easier to access. Using SAML authentication you can log into your Active Directory domain or intranet and have immediate access to Papertrail, with no additional login required. The new SAML support also enables you to enforce user identity verification policies. If you are interested in enabling SAML authentication, select Settings and scroll down to the new security area.

The world has been on a tough break these past few months. With countries talking about defeating the COVID-19 Pandemic, but contemplating infection fears again, we are experiencing a new normal that has all of us second guessing what we know about life as-of-now. This ambiguity is most visible, when we are discussing business.

As companies decide whether or not to move ahead with an “everything in the cloud” strategy for providing consumer-facing applications, enterprise applications are also getting a new shape with web-based applications to support internal business operations. These applications live inside the private network of the organization and often have role-based access.

In a factory environment, collecting data to gain useful insights from various sources is challenging because it requires connecting to many different types of automation systems, plcs and devices that often speak different languages. This is the problem that German industrial software company, inray (specialized in data communication between software systems and components in Industry 4.0, IoT and IIoT) set out to solve for its customers.

AWS Lambda enables you to run serverless functions in the AWS cloud, by manually triggering functions or by creating trigger events. To ensure your Lambda functions are running smoothly, you can monitor metrics that measure performance, invocations, and concurrencies. However, even if you continuously monitor, once in a while you are going to run into what’s termed a Lamba cold start. There are various ways to prevent AWS Lambda cold starts.

As companies move towards a flexible, remote work environment, the demand for VPN services has increased considerably. This need to ramp up VPN infrastructures in such a short time comes with its fair share of operational problems and security concerns. Over purchasing VPN capacity would put a dent in the IT budget while under purchasing would result in loss of productivity.