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How to Choose a Patch Management Solution

It’s pretty easy to hit that “remind me later” button when you don’t want to wait for installations, reboots, and possible errors if something goes wrong with the update. Snoozing that patch notification can quickly become a habit, and before you know it, a critical piece of software is weeks or months out of date. More people are learning that this isn’t a bit of harmless procrastination -- it’s actually a huge cybersecurity risk.

Functional safety in automotive: contributing to ISO 26262 and ISO 21434 standards

If you’ve been reading our recent automotive blogs and white papers, you know that the automotive industry is highly complex and regulated, especially when it comes to functional safety and cybersecurity. Standards and consortiums help ensure that companies provide a common framework and follow compatibility and interoperability approaches. Usually, these standards define constraints in how specific components and systems are designed or how they should work together.

Box vs. Google Drive: Choosing a File Storage for Your Business

As businesses move more and more towards the digital workplace, choosing a file storage solution that fits your unique needs is essential. But since there are too many options in the market, we're about to oppose Box vs. Google Drive to highlight their differences and similarities and make it easier to choose between them. Both are cloud-based platforms that provide businesses with storage space, collaboration tools, and top-notch security features.

What is Azure Zone Redundant Storage?

When it comes to storing data in the cloud, ensuring high availability and durability is of utmost importance. Azure Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) is a feature offered by Microsoft Azure that provides local and geographic redundancy for your data, ensuring maximum data protection and minimal downtime. In this article, we will delve into the details of Azure ZRS, its benefits, and how to use it effectively.

How to add context to errors with custom tags

An important component of understanding the root cause of an error, and the importance of an error to the business is having additional contextual information about the error. The specific additional data that is important for your errors will be unique for your application and possibly the category of the error. Rollbar provides an easy way to tag your error data with additional custom tags. There are 2 main ways of doing this.

Windows Server Monitoring Improvements

Monitor your Windows server and applications running on it with Netdata - simple, powerful and free. Hey Netdata community, We have some exciting news for you: we’re launching our new and updated Windows collectors with the goal of making the Windows monitoring experience as seamless as possible 🎉 We know that Windows monitoring has been a long time ask from many of you, and we’ve been working hard to make it easier than ever to monitor your Windows metrics with Netdata.

Five Best Practices for Using Virtual Machines on Azure Cloud

When planning public cloud environments, two commonly used words are “progress” and “results.” While positive results may be achieved at the end of a well-organized, meticulously planned journey, the first few crucial steps set your orientation on the journey. Let’s take a closer look at these steps, using a Microsoft Azure virtual machine (VM) environment as an example.

Deploys Are the WRONG Way to Change User Experience

I'm no stranger to ranting about deploys. But there's one thing I haven't sufficiently ranted about yet, which is this: Deploying software is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad way to go about the process of changing user-facing code. It sucks even if you have excellent, fast, fully automated deploys (which most of you do not). Relying on deploys to change user experience is a problem because it fundamentally confuses and scrambles up two very different actions: Deploys and releases.

What is Latency? The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Latency: Why it Matters, and How to Minimize It

“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy In today's digital world, we rely on fast and reliable internet connections for everything from business operations and communication. However, even the fastest internet connection can be slowed down by network delay, also known as latency.

Grafana Agent v0.32 release: New integrations with Oracle, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and more

Grafana Agent v0.32 is now available! This release includes a host of new integrations for the Grafana Agent and components for Grafana Agent Flow so you can easily monitor your vital infrastructure. We’re also excited to announce that Flow is no longer in beta. Introduced last fall, Flow is a new configuration mode that makes Grafana Agent easier and more powerful to run.