A recently conducted survey of 51 CISOs and other security leaders a series of questions about the current demand for cybersecurity solutions, spending intentions, security posture strategies, tool preferences, and vendor consolidation expectations. While the report highlights the trends around platform consolidation over the short run, 82% of respondents stated they expect to increase the number of vendors in the next 2-3 years.

Synthetic monitoring in Cloud Monitoring lets you test the availability, consistency, and performance of your web applications from the perspective of a real user.

When used properly, serverless technologies like AWS Lambda can lower the cost of running a system. This is because you only pay for these services when you’re using them, so you don’t waste any money. Serverless technologies also have other benefits. They can provide better security, built-in redundancy and scalability. The biggest plus is that they let you do more with less time and effort. You can focus on the things that directly add value to your business.

Today, there is an explosion of data in IT. This data explosion of critical infrastructure living in the cloud, on premises in the data center, or even orchestrated in containers can be subjected to low disk space issues. How do you respond to the challenging inconvenience of low disk space?

The OpenTelemetry Go project now supports automatic instrumentation via eBPF! This is a big milestone for the project and makes it significantly easier to generate data from your Go apps: The automatic instrumentation agent is still in s/alpha/beta today, but it’s ready for you to try on your applications!

This month’s MSP Growth Habit focuses on mastering the art of time management in order to help you grow your MSP and become more profitable. In speaking with MSPs over the years, there are three common concerns I hear when it comes to addressing their lack of revenue growth and profitability: Or my absolute favorite: This is the saddest statement of the three because you should never be too busy that your MSP has no interest in securing new clients or new business.

Every well-oiled machine needs both a gas and a brake pedal. If our article titled How IT Teams Can Leverage AIOps’ Capabilities is the gas pedal in this analogy, then this writing is the proverbial brakes in which we explore some educational pit stops organizations should make on their way to integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into their IT operations (AIOps).

Blockchain-generated smart contracts are transforming the way the world creates and settles agreements. Jonathan Huxtable and the team at LinkPool are using platformEDGE™ to connect these contracts with real-world data sources. In 2017, Google searches for the term Bitcoin peaked. It seemed like everyone was talking about cryptocurrencies. For Jonathan Huxtable, this surge in interest didn’t come as a surprise. In fact, he’d predicted it.

Not to be confused with the popular children’s TV character, DORA is a new EU regulation for the financial sector, which stands for the Digital Operational Resilience Act. DORA became law on 16 January 2023 and will start to apply from 17 January 2025, so it’s crucial that senior executives in the financial sector, such as Chief Risk Officers and Chief Information Security Officers, understand its implications and prepare for compliance from day one.

During the past month of July, the Sentry dev team dropped new capabilities to help you better understand, prioritize, and respond to errors and performance problems. From new ways of sorting priority issues to helping you be more proactive in identifying problems earlier in the dev lifecycle, we’ve picked a handful of recent releases to dive into. Plus we’ll highlight a couple of new integrations with our friends at Slack and Atlassian.