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Elastic: The future of finance: Former PayPal CIO shares key digital insights to help companies thrive

As the financial services industry continues to change at a rapid pace, former PayPal CIO, Brad Strock, explains how companies can stay one step ahead. Highlights: Starting as a service to send money between PalmPilots via infra-red, in its 22 year history PayPal has pivoted many times to become a leading player in digital payments.

Elastic Kibana Workshop

Level up your data visualisation skills and join Elastics Solutions Architects, as they walk you through Kibana, the Elastic Stack's UI. In this session, we will go through a brief introduction into Kibana and its major features including Lens, advanced visualisations, dashboards and Time Series Visual Builder (TSVB). This session will also include demos and an Ask Me Anything opportunity for all attendees.

Elastic: Introduction to Elastic Security: How to shrink MTTR

Elastic Security unites two critical components of cybersecurity - endpoint security and SIEM - to prevent, detect, and respond to threats. Learn how Elastic Security can help you See the latest capabilities in action and learn how endpoint security and SIEM can work together to speed up detection and response. Highlights: Additional resources: Can't make it? Register and we'll send you the recording. You'll also receive an email with related content.

Monitor Azure using Applications Manager

Microsoft Azure is the fastest growing cloud platform at the moment. Many organizations use Microsoft Azure to quickly build and deliver cloud services that can scale or to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. However, larger and faster cloud services can quickly increase the complexity of a network. To solve this and ensure business-critical workloads run correctly, IT teams need deep visibility into their Azure environments.

BCD Travel Selects Exoprise For Microsoft Office 365 Monitoring

Headquartered in the Netherlands, BCD Travel manages global business travel. It operates in 109 countries with annual revenues totaling $25 billion and employs nearly 11,000 people worldwide. To meet the current and future needs of a growing virtual workforce, the Network Operations Center (NOC) group at BCD Travel had to adapt and scale its IT infrastructure operations. Additional capabilities were needed to monitor Microsoft 365, Azure, Active Directory, AWS, Teams, and other critical SaaS services.

Announcing the Gremlin Chaos Engineering Practitioner Certificate Program

Get started with Gremlin's Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. Chaos Engineering continues to grow in popularity and is rapidly becoming a job requirement. To help Engineering and Testing teams meet the need, we’re launching our first ever Gremlin Chaos Engineering Practitioner Certificate Program!

Why DevOps isn't a level playing field for financial services and insurance

Redgate recently published the 2021 State of Database DevOps report which, for the last five years, has followed the rise in DevOps and the challenges organizations face when adopting it for both application and database development. Based on a survey of thousands of IT professionals from around the world, it also provides the opportunity to dive a little deeper into how those challenges vary sector by sector.

8 Best Practices for Windows Patch Management

Given the numerous cyber-threats that organizations face these days, security has become one of the most serious issues on everyone’s mind. When it comes to protecting business-critical environments from malware, various security measures can make a significant difference. Patching is one such important component of ensuring the security of your infrastructure and data.

What is MicroStack?

MicroStack provides a single or multi-node OpenStack deployment which can run directly on your workstation. Although made for developers to prototype and test, it is also suitable for edge, IoT, and appliances. MicroStack is an OpenStack in a snap which means that all OpenStack services and supporting libraries are packaged together in a single package which can be easily installed, upgraded or removed. MicroStack includes all key OpenStack components: Keystone, Nova, Neutron, Glance, and Cinder.