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The Blameless Complete Guide to Incident Management

Incidents are inevitable. As your service expands and becomes more complex, you are more likely to encounter outages, slowdowns, errors, and other disruptions to healthy operation. At the same time, as your service becomes more popular and relied on by users, the cost of incidents becomes higher. Studies have shown that the cost of downtime is high, and growing fast in the digital-first world. Since you can never fully prevent incidents, it's important to resolve them as efficiently as possible.

What is Network Discovery?

Something we've said before is, "You can't protect what you can't see," and it's so true. How can you protect your network if you can't see ALL of it? Enter: Network Discovery. Network Discovery is the fundamental principle of network monitoring and management. At its core, the process of discovery allows you to find and identify everything connected to your network. It allows you to see what's on your network, how to figure out what's connected, and more.

SRE vs DevOps: Can they coexist or do they compete?

Systems fail, sometimes publicly and at great cost. Airlines have experienced system-wide ticketing outages, causing hundreds of flight cancellations and significant inconvenience to customers. Retailers have experienced website crashes on the busiest shopping days of the year, costing millions in lost revenue and customer goodwill. It is vital to understand both DevOps and SRE and the roles they play in preventing such outages.

Monitor Physical Servers and Virtual Machines with WhatsUp Gold

In today's world, monitoring your servers is more important than ever before. With proper monitoring, you can understand system resource usage and identify performance-related issues like utilization, downtime, and response time. As a network or system admin, you know how vital server uptime is. On the reverse, how downtime can be detrimental to your business and your staff's productivity, resulting in loss of sales and, therefore, loss of revenue.

Five Things a Secure Access Service Edge Plan Should Include

As many organizations are now making the move to the long-term Work From Anywhere environment, forward-thinking I&O leaders are contemplating the move to a SASE architecture. While SASE promises to revolutionize network and security management and operations, we understand that for many IT leaders faced with mounting pressure on time, resources and skills, it can be a struggle to research SASE requirements and introduce the ideal SASE architecture.