Shared development environments have long been the norm at a time when agility and collaboration reign supreme. But this once-effective approach now reveals its limitations, giving rise to productivity and collaboration bottlenecks, often leading to conflicts and resource contention that stall projects and hinder development teams. In this article, we will explore the key challenges posed by collaboration bottlenecks and introduce the ephemeral environments solution that redefines how teams operate.

Before adopting any new SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) business tools, the IT department of an organization should evaluate whether it is wise to trust the SaaS product and indeed vendor.

Predictive analytics harnesses the power of big data, statistical algorithms and machine learning techniques to anticipate future outcomes based on historical data. Various industries use predictive analytics, from finance and healthcare to retail and marketing. Among its many uses, predictive maintenance and anomaly detection are two significant applications.

In the fast-paced universe of software development, especially in the cloud-native realm, DevOps and SRE teams are increasingly emerging as essential partners in application stability and growth. DevOps engineers continuously optimize software delivery, while SRE teams act as the stewards of application reliability, scalability, and top-tier performance. The challenge?

As a wise man once said, never ask a goat to install software, they’ll just end up eating the instructions. It may appear that the pesky goats have eaten some of those instructions or eaten too many sticker bushes to keep up with recent Microsoft Sentinel changes if you’ve tried configuring the CEF and Azure Connected Machine Agents. This guide is for you whether you have spent considerable time trying to get these agents to work or just dabbling in the Sentinel waters!

Data collection has become an increasingly essential tool for businesses, allowing them to gather insights about their customers and employees. But it also raises the question of ethics: what data should be collected, how should it be used and who should have access to it? In this article, we'll explore the ethical implications of collecting employee experience data through telemetry.

According to Statista, the mass volume of data created, stored, copied, and consumed in 2020 was over 64 zettabytes (ZB), or about 64 trillion gigabytes (GB). This is expected to rise to 181 ZB by the year 2025. A large portion of this data is likely to be significant to your business. It can provide you with new insights that help you improve your product, communicate with consumers, and perform risk analysis. However, you’ll need the right tools to extract, sort, process, and analyze it.

Android 14, Google’s latest release, brings a host of improvements for users, with enhancements to accessibility, localization, battery life improvements and more. But for IT admins, there are also several Android 14 enterprise features to plan for that enhance user privacy and control.

In the fast-paced world of IT and managed services, efficiency and automation are key. A particularly useful tool that every IT professional or MSP should have in their toolkit is a PowerShell script capable of downloading files directly from a URL. In this blog post, we delve deeper into the workings of such a script, discuss real-world usage scenarios, and expound on the benefits of using PowerShell to download files from URLs.

The OpenTelemetry Collector is a useful application to have in your stack. However, deploying it has always felt a little time consuming: working out how to host the config, building the deployments, etc. The good news is the OpenTelemetry team also produces Helm charts for the Collector, and I’ve started leveraging them. There are a few things to think about when using them though, so I thought I’d go through them here.