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Sysadmin Day 2020 is right around the corner and we’d like to show our appreciation for all the sysadmins out there who keep IT humming along and come to the rescue to resolve critical issues day in and day out. This year, we’re celebrating all week long by hosting an IT Heroes and Homelabs contest. Join the celebration by retweeting our post with the hashtag #SysadminDay #NetdataWin, and we’ll enter you in a drawing to win some Netdata swag!

If you occupy positions of certain responsibility (such as CIO or CTO) and you do not know what is necessary about IoT, you run the risk of being out of the game. So here in this article is what you need to know about IoT. The following post is not intended to be a full encyclopedia on the Internet of Things.

Cloud computing is a foundational platform for modern businesses, enabling digital transformation and supporting organizational agility. The benefits of putting applications in the cloud are well documented: flexibility, scalability, and reliability with a lower capex investment.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we discuss the merits of going hybrid in this era of distributed workforces and remote working culture. While it has become imperative for organizations to implement remote work policies, the question of cloud adoption has become almost unavoidable.

Linux is one of the best known and most used open source operating systems. The key advantages of using Linux servers are that they are stable, secure, compatible, and customizable.

Following the release of Azure Monitor for VMs in January 2020, some changes have been made to how its performance data is stored in Log Analytics. The most significant of these changes is that this data is now stored in the InsightsMetrics table rather than in the Perf table, as we discussed in our ‘What is Azure VM Insights?’ article.