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VirtualMetric DataStream + Splunk: Pre-Ingest CIM Normalization Without the TA Tax

Mar 20, 2026 By VirtualMetric In VirtualMetric
Splunk is built around a deceptively simple premise: get your data in, search it, and act on it. In practice, the gap between “get your data in” and “data that actually works in Splunk ES” is where most of the engineering effort goes. CIM normalization is non-trivial. Technology Add-on development is slow. Volume-based licensing penalizes growth. And the combination means that as environments expand, Splunk becomes harder to operate efficiently.
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dotcom-monitor

API Status Monitoring: Real-Time Health & Uptime Tracking

Mar 20, 2026 By Dotcom-Monitor In Dotcom-Monitor
APIs sit at the center of modern digital infrastructure. Mobile applications, SaaS platforms, microservices, and third party integrations all depend on APIs to exchange data and execute business logic in real time. When an API becomes unavailable, slows down, or returns incorrect data, users feel it immediately. Transactions fail. Dashboards stop updating. Logins break. Revenue and trust are affected within minutes.
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Breaking the Mold: Marc Umstead's Journey from Solopreneur to Strategic Leader

Mar 20, 2026 By N-able In N-able
From Break/Fix to Workflow-First MSP: Mark’s Plus One Growth Story Mark joins host Chris Massey on Now That’s IT: Stories of MSP Success to share how his focus on solving workflow problems—starting at age 15 digitizing his dad’s paper-based processes—shaped his career and the growth of Plus One. He describes taking a $10,000 loan at 23 to buy a small computer repair shop, navigating early solo “survival mode,” and evolving from break/fix into an MSP with recurring revenue.
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How to Set Up AWS Direct Connect with Megaport

Mar 20, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
This step-by-step guide shows how easy it is to connect to AWS using Megaport. In this video, we cover: Provisioning an AWS Direct Connect Port in your chosen data center Selecting your AWS region Finding your ASN and AWS Account ID in the AWS Management Console Specifying your VLANs Attaching the virtual gateway for your VPC.
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Feature Friday: Using Entity Relationship Types to Map the Perfect March Madness Bracket

Mar 20, 2026 By Cortex | Engineering Operations Platform In Cortex
Can an EngOps Platform help you win your family March Madness pool? It’s that time of year again, and the stakes are high. Despite watching hundreds of hours of basketball, we're tired of losing bets to a mom who barely follows the sport. This year, we’re leveling the playing field using Cortex. In this, we’re moving beyond microservices to show you the power of Entity Relationship Types. Watch as we take a chaotic tournament bracket and turn it into a structured, navigable engineering ecosystem.
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Resolve's Zero Ticket Minute - Ep. 15 #agenticai #itautomation #aiautomation

Mar 20, 2026 By Resolve In Resolve
Agentic AI can act, decide, and resolve on its own. Powerful, but it comes with real risk. Without the right guardrails, autonomy can lead to data exposure, compliance issues, and unintended actions at scale. This episode shows how to keep control with governed, deterministic automation.
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cloudzero

FinOps Leaders Who Will Win The AI Era Are Already Experimenting

Mar 20, 2026 By Ben Austin In CloudZero
Engineering teams are shipping faster than ever. AI coding tools like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex have quietly removed some of the biggest friction points in the development cycle — and the result is that FinOps teams are being asked to keep up with a pace most practitioners haven’t fully reckoned with yet. That acceleration has a cost consequence. More shipping means more services, more experiments, more infrastructure spun up without review cycles.
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