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January 30, 2020 As a healthcare CIO mandated with the transition to electronic healthcare records, you’ve done your due diligence, evaluated various EHR vendors and most likely settled on Epic, a software vendor with over 25% of the US acute care hospital market share. You’ve followed Epic guidelines for minimum hardware requirements and acquired what you believe is the right workstation, server, networking, and storage infrastructure for Epic.

My computer programming teacher had always told me that 10% of our time is spent developing 90% of our application, and the other 90% of our time finishing the last 10% of our project. Even with a good project plan and a concept that makes logical sense, most of our time will be consumed with fixing errors. Moreover, with JavaScript, our application can run without obvious errors preventing it from being run, so we have to employ several techniques to make sure everything is running smoothly.

Fast-growing products are not overnight successes contrary to what you often hear. At InfluxData, we’re on a mission to build a user base from scratch with our new flagship product InfluxDB Cloud. Every new user has to go through a signup flow to create their account. So it must go as smoothly as possible. User research and design experimentation are the way we’ll reach this goal, and the main ingredient in this recipe is you: the community member.

The blog talks about the drivers of software asset management (SAM) and why SAM needs to be included in your ITAM strategy.

To operate efficiently, businesses today use numerous devices such as laptops, desktop computers, and mobile devices. Securing all these devices—collectively called endpoints—significantly improves the overall security of your enterprise’s IT network. This blog can help you get started with endpoint security. To begin with, let’s define endpoint security.

If you’ve heard about Grafana Enterprise (the commercial version of Grafana), you might be wondering if companies actually pay for something that is already so good as an open source software. In my role at Grafana Labs I’ve talked with hundreds of companies from all over the world, in many different industries. I’ve listened as they shared the daily challenges and frustrations they face at their organizations.

LogicMonitor is expanding its Cisco platform coverage by releasing new Cisco HyperFlex LogicModules. Hyperflex is Cisco’s hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform. This platform is designed to tightly integrate storage, network, and virtualization for ease of use and efficient scalability. With LogicMonitor’s Cisco HyperFlex package, which leverages the Cisco HyperFlex REST API, you can monitor a large number of HyperFlex operations.

In our latest article on the Amazon Builders’ Library, Yan Cui highlights the main takeaways from the article, Implementing health checks, by AWS Principal Engineer David Yanacek.