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What Value Does a Cloud Data Platform Hold For Your Business?

It has been roughly two decades since cloud computing first appeared on the scene, and yet, despite overwhelming evidence of the business operational productivity improvements, cost-savings, and competitive advantages it provides, a significant remnant of the banking industry remains open without using it.

Monitor the Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache with Datadog

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database that scales automatically with load and supports multiple APIs. This makes it easy to incorporate with your applications while removing the need to maintain your own database servers. The Cosmos DB integrated cache—which is now in public preview—is a new offering that can help reduce costs and improve performance for Azure Cosmos DB.

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To Reinvent SOAR, Automation Is only a Feature

Security, by its very nature, is one of the most innovative fields on the planet. Every technological advancement carries with it a handful or more of new attack vectors, which in turn lead to a dizzying amount of security innovation as our industry works to mitigate risk and defend against threats. But for all this innovation, there are a few ways in which security lags far behind.

DevOps State of Mind Podcast Episode 4: How to Build With Confidence with LaunchDarkly

Today we're joined by CTO and Co-founder of LaunchDarkly, John Kodumal. LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that gives developers total control of their code so that they can ship quicker, reduce risk, and reclaim their nights and weekends. We're going to talk about why having tools that help devs build with confidence is essential to a successful DevOps culture and John's top tips for enterprises who are early in their DevOps adoption.

How to Use AWS Lambda Serverless Functions with InfluxDB

For time series workloads the ability of serverless functions to scale up and down is a major advantage, especially for something like IoT devices that may have intermittent connectivity and might suddenly send data in bursts. In this type of situation, it doesn’t make sense to be paying for a server to be running 24/7 when you can use a serverless function and only pay for the compute you use.

ServiceNow named a Leader in Enterprise Service Management

We’re thrilled to announce that ServiceNow has been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management (ESM), Q4 2021. We believe this recognition validates our industry position and continued investment in workflow automation and capabilities addressing employee service delivery across the enterprise.

Improving continuous verification: deploy fast and safely to production

Kubernetes and microservices have opened the door to smaller and more frequent releases, while DevOps CI/CD practices and tools have sped up software development and deployment processes. The dynamic nature of these cloud native architectures makes modern applications not just complex, but also difficult to monitor, find and fix problems.

A successful Monitoring as a Service Case: Drilling & Mining Industry

Migrating or restructuring a SCOM environment can seem like an overwhelming, even impossible, task. For one of our customers in the mining industry, however, it went more than well, and the improvements have been exceptional. Applying our Monitoring as a Service, they could benefit from the aggregated experiences of programmers, system administrators, and DevOps engineers that our service builds on to make the migration as smooth and trouble-free as possible.