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Mission-critical Hybrid Capacity Management - It's Time

When mission-critical applications were all implemented within your data center, capacity management seemed easy – Most organizations deployed infrastructure sets (compute, network, and storage) to meet their 95 to 99% capacity requirement. For a retailer, that might mean planning around a “Black Friday” date (Cyber-Monday wasn’t around then). For a bank or a manufacturer using ERP or financial systems, this might instead be the end of year close.

Software Trends for 2020: Continuous Delivery

“Software is eating the world” is no longer a hopeful vision. It’s happening. It’s here. Software is driving the world’s most important technological trends, and 2020 will prove to be an inflection point for several of them. Underlying the rapid pace of software transformation is another trend that has become immensely popular in itself. The rise of continuous delivery has enabled software companies to turn their ideas into reality faster than ever before.

Bosch Rexroth adopts Ubuntu Core and snaps for app-based ctrlX AUTOMATION platform

19th February 2020 – Canonical today announced that Bosch Rexroth has selected Ubuntu Core for their app-based platform ctrlX AUTOMATION. ctrlX AUTOMATION leverages Ubuntu Core, designed for embedded devices, and snaps, the universal Linux application containers, to deliver an open source platform to remove the barriers between machine control, IT and OT.

10 Best SEO Friendly WordPress Themes

Themes make the entirety of WordPress. You can’t find a WordPress site without an instance of theming applied. The most popular theme of all time, Avada, has made over 12 Million dollars from selling at the initial price of $60! We’re not here to throw some internet facts on you for fun (although these are worth your time!). We looked around for the best & rare WordPress themes that boost your SEO, and make our Lord Google happy.

Introducing Community Influx Templates

With InfluxDB 2.0 we added the ability to export a configuration of your entire stack, and import it again into another instance of InfluxDB. This includes your InfluxDB buckets, dashboards, queries, alerts and even Telegraf configurations. Since many people have the same or similar use cases, we wanted to provide a way for you to share your configurations with other users, and work together to enhance and improve them over time, just like you would any other open source project.

Introducing the Splunk for CMMC Solution

On January 31st, 2020, the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD A&S) published V1.0 of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). The CMMC builds on DFARS both in terms of required practices and by establishing “trust, but verify” relationships with DoD contractors.

Elastic: Enhancing security analyst workflow with the Elastic SIEM detection engine and unsupervised anomaly detection

With the release of the Elastic Stack 7.6, we saw the addition of a new detection engine to Elastic SIEM. The detection engine creates "signals" - based on built-in or user-created rules - to bring greater threat detection efficiency and effectiveness through automation. Users can create their own custom rules to automatically detect potentially malicious activity in their environment.