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Network Design and Best Practices

With networks at the heart of the most modern business, network design can have a major impact on business outcomes. Finding the right balance of network performance, security, redundancy, and cost require a unique mix of project management and technical skill. To help you nail your next network design project, we’ll take a deep dive on the topic, provide a basic framework you can follow, and look at some best practices to keep in mind as you go.

Extend AWS Observability Beyond CloudWatch

It’s essential to choose the right tool for the job. I have an old, sturdy screwdriver that I use for lots of odd DIY jobs around my house, like cleaning gutters, opening paint cans, and general maintenance on my lawnmower. However, when I’m performing an upgrade on my computer, a large, rusty screwdriver isn’t the best tool to remove the screws anchoring my motherboard.

Three fundamental tips for an effective event filtering in SIGNL4

Event and alert filtering matters because alert fatigue is one of the most crucial issues in alerting and alert management. SIGNL4 implements a lightweight and effective way of filtering events. The overall process is based on alert categories. Alert categories are applied using a keyword search across the entire payload of incoming third-party events. But assigning alert categories, e.g. for alert augmentation, is not filtering.

How automation simplifies hardware asset management

Anyone involved in any kind of datacenter or physical IT operations faces multiple challenges every day: What if there were an easier way? End-to-end automated workflow At ServiceNow, we reached a major milestone: end-to-end automated workflow of the cloud hardware supply chain, from order through disposal. The features in the Paris release of ServiceNow® Hardware Asset Management (HAM) took us over the finish line, reducing asset management time for engineers and asset managers by 76%.

Work Anywhere: CloudReady and Service Watch

If you haven’t signed up for our upcoming April 21 Work Anywhere Webinar with Exoprise and Forrester, now is a good time. The webinar highlights the challenges that businesses face today due to Covid disruption and innovative solutions to mitigate these challenges. Millions of Americans now work from the comfort of their home using Microsoft 365, Teams, Zoom, and other critical SaaS application services for their daily activities.