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What is an Access Control List (ACL)?

A commonly used tool at the Cisco command line is the access control list (ACL). At their simplest, access control lists are collections of IP addresses that are used by a router, switch, or a firewall to identify network traffic that must be handled in a special way. Cisco and other network vendors use ACLs for many different purposes. This article focuses on IOS access control lists as used on Cisco routers, although much of this discussion applies to Cisco switches as well.

HighByte and InfluxDB Provide Critical OEE Data for Manufacturing Companies

HighByte is an industrial software company based in Portland, Maine building Industry 4.0 based solutions that address the data architecture and integration challenges inherent in manufacturing. The company developed the first DataOps solution purpose-built to meet the unique requirements of industrial assets, products, processes, and systems at the Edge.

The Best Books to Read About ITSM

Books! Who doesn’t love books? Whether you’re one for the latest thriller to top the charts, or you go-Instagram-crazy for the latest self-help book, the majority of us love to read. In fact it was reported that the global book market was expected to grow from $87.92 billion in 2020 to $92.68 billion in 2021, with that figure reaching $124.2 billion by 2025.

Transforming Education and Government IT and Cloud Environments

State, local government, and educational institutions have unique IT requirements and regulations that traditional commercial organizations don’t face. From specific IT budgeting processes to strict compliance, public sector organizations are constantly forced to maximize every IT resource in their complex IT environments.

Elastic: Randstad: Using Elastic to maintain and protect the working lives of thousands

Discover Randstad's innovation journey and the best practices you can apply to drive innovation within your organization and deliver reliable solutions at scale. Randstad provides outsourcing, staffing, consulting and workforce solutions in 38 countries around the globe. Randstad Netherlands employs tens of thousands of people on a weekly basis. Making sure those people can work, get paid and their information is secure generates a lot of data. Securing that data and maintaining Randstad's systems are both done in the Elastic Stack utilising the Elastic Observability and Security solutions.

LogicMonitor: How to build a proactive and predictive monitoring approach

Do you find yourself spending too much time trying to put out fires and track down root causes due to unplanned downtime? Imagine a world where you're focused on driving strategic business outcomes instead of mitigating unscheduled downtime. With a proactive and predictive monitoring approach, this is 100% achievable. In this webinar, you'll learn how an AIOps early warning system can help you switch from a reactive approach, where the focus lies on minimizing an outage, to a proactive approach that allows you to focus on avoiding outages altogether.

Run Synthetic tests in CI/CD with the new Datadog GitHub Action

Testing early and often throughout the software development process (shift-left testing) helps teams stay agile and reduce the time it takes to validate and release new updates. Datadog Synthetic CI/CD Testing enables you to implement shift-left testing throughout your CI/CD pipeline so that your team can prevent faulty code deployments from degrading your end user experience.