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IT can save the planet

When we think about saving the planet, we usually imagine solar panels, electric cars, or governments making sweeping climate policies. Rarely do we picture rows of blinking servers in a data center or IT admins patching endpoints. Maybe we should. In today's world, the intersection between technology and sustainability is becoming impossible to ignore, and the IT industry is right at the center of it. The truth is, IT is both part of the problem and part of the solution.

Top tips: The secret to a better workday? It's in the little things

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll see how fixing small inconveniences at work can make things easier and help us get more done. “It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.” – Queen Elizabeth II It's the little changes in life that bring lasting effects. Small, incremental improvements often add to meaningful comfort over time.

Analytics Plus webinar: Unify IT data with powerful integrations and import capabilities

IT landscapes are vast, widespread, and increasingly complex–demanding tools that don't simply keep up, but lead the way. Enter Analytics Plus 6.0, a powerful upgrade designed to bring advanced AI, GenAI, and ML capabilities into everyday ITOps. In this session, discover the extensive list of growing integrations, and build a centralized repository of every operational KPI. Learn advanced import capabilities that improve data accuracy and ensure real-time insights.

Building a bulletproof network disaster recovery plan

Imagine it’s 2am. A core switch fries because of a sudden power surge. Most of your users wake up to a blank screen. Your team scrambles: Where’s the backup configuration? Who knows the last working state? Hours pass, productivity tanks, support calls flood in, and costs stack up by the minute. This isn’t a theoretical horror story. According to Gartner, the average cost of network downtime still hovers around $5,600 per minute, or over $300,000 per hour.

Monitoring Ruby on Rails applications with Applications Manager

Ruby on Rails is the go-to framework for organizations to build flexible, database-driven web applications with high speed and efficiency. Enterprises of all sizes rely on it to build user-friendly applications. But like any other modern web stack, optimizing the performance, availability, and reliability of Rails applications, especially in production environments, requires more than just reactive bug fixes.

66% of us use AI every day, but do we actually know how it works?

There’s a new kind of thinking happening in the world. It doesn’t come with memories, emotions, or doubt. It doesn’t hesitate. It doesn’t wonder. However, it appears to be thinking. Ask it a question, and it responds in perfect grammar. Ask for help, and it gives you options. You could almost believe it understands. Almost. This is what happens when machines are trained to speak like us, but without ever needing to understand us.
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Streamlining multi-cloud complexity with unified observability

A wave of businesses are embracing multi-cloud strategies to gain flexibility and scalability. By combining on-premises infrastructure, private clouds, and public platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IT teams can experiment, deploy, transform, and improve their IT applications significantly. On the down side, this modern IT approach of employing multiple clouds (in both public and private forms) also brings significant complexity, making it challenging to monitor systems, control costs, and secure environments. There are just too many threads to track and tie together to ensure a taut IT fabric.