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IoT Monitoring: Why It Matters and How to Do It Right?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer a futuristic concept—it’s a reality that’s transforming industries, businesses, and everyday life. With billions of connected devices generating vast amounts of data, managing and monitoring these devices effectively has become a critical task for businesses seeking to optimize operations, enhance security, and ensure seamless performance.

Learnings from eight major outages of 2024 and best practices to stay prepared

While we cannot eliminate internet outages, lag, or security breaches, reflecting on the lessons learned from these events helps us cope, innovate, and implement measures to reduce how often they occur. In 2024, website and application outages had a significantly greater impact on the world than in previous years, leaving the IT community with valuable insights to consider.

Global website monitoring: Best practices for international businesses

With a sluggish page a smooth global performance would be a far fletched dream. A tainted brand reputation, irritated customers abandoning your’s for a better site, lost businesses are all that a slow or poorly localized webpage can bring. To establish your digital presence across the globe, you’ll have to equip yourselves with some effective tools and best practices. Once done, it’ll be easier for you to traverse boundaries.

Challenges of Monitoring Network Quality in VCF Environments

As organizations modernize their IT infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), ensuring seamless workload and application mobility becomes critical. One often overlooked yet critical factor in this transformation is the quality of the networks connecting data centers and cloud environments. This is especially challenging in environments dependent on internet service providers (ISPs) and other external networks, where internal network operations teams have limited control over network behavior.

Monitoring Citrix On-Premises and Cloud Deployments on Microsoft SCOM

Managing Citrix environments just got easier! Join our exclusive webinar to explore Teqwave’s Citrix VAD and Citrix Cloud DaaS Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM. Learn how this innovative tool enhances your monitoring capabilities for both on-premises and Citrix Cloud deployments.

Getting it right with GenAI in financial services: Where to focus in 2025

I attended ElasticON recently where we spent the day with our NYC Elastic community, talking about the combined value of vector databases using retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to feed large language models (LLMs) for next-level generative AI (GenAI) results. Elastic’s CTO and Founder Shay Banon kicked off his keynote with an important message: GenAI is not magic.

FinOps IT Asset Management: A Strategic Approach

FinOps IT Asset Management(ITAM) is one of the modern trends in the IT field, which is gaining increasing popularity among organizations in order to manage their financial processes and technological tools. When the FinOps term appeared simultaneously with the ITAM term, it became clear that their integration would offer the following advantages: better control of costs, optimized resource management, and legal compliance.

Comparing Azure NSG and VNet Flow Logs

Phil Gervasi compares Azure NSG Flow Logs and VNet Flow Logs, explaining the benefits VNet Flow Logs bring to network observability in Azure environments. Learn how VNet Flow Logs simplify network monitoring, improve traffic visibility, and address the limitations of NSG Flow Logs by capturing traffic at the virtual network level. Learn about VNet Flow Log applications—including traffic analysis, network optimization, and security enhancement—and how Kentik integrates with these logs for deeper insights and advanced analytics.

An Easy Guide to OpenTelemetry Environment Variables

When working with OpenTelemetry, environment variables play a crucial role in configuring and customizing your setup. These variables provide a flexible and convenient way to adjust settings without needing to change code, allowing you to fine-tune your OpenTelemetry installation across different environments.

Top 5 Database Monitoring Software: Optimize Performance and Prevent Downtime

Databases are the foundation of modern applications, right from e-commerce platforms to social media networks. As the need for real-time data increases, businesses require tools that ensure their databases function efficiently. These database monitoring tools play a crucial role in preventing downtime, improving the speed of data retrieval, and scaling operations as business demands grow.