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Cloud or On-Prem? With Monitoring, It's Both-And, Not Either-Or

Despite the migration of services and systems to cloud (either all or in part), many of the fundamental aspects of the day-to-day work IT practitioners do hasn’t changed. It’s just moved. In this session, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg discuss that state of affairs, as well as what monitoring can do to help view those resources as a contiguous whole, despite possibly being split across the on-prem/cloud divide.

How Lowe's SRE reduced its mean time to recovery (MTTR) by over 80 percent

The stakes of managing Lowes.com have never been higher, and that means spotting, troubleshooting and recovering from incidents as quickly as possible, so that customers can continue to do business on our site. To do that, it’s crucial to have solid incident engineering practices in place. Resolving an incident means mitigating the impact and/or restoring the service to its previous condition.

Top 8 uses of cloud computing

The cloud is gaining widespread adoption. For many organizations, cloud computing has become an indispensable tool for communication and collaboration across distributed teams. Whether you are on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, or Azure. the cloud can reduce costs, increase flexibility, and optimize resources. If you have spent your career in buzzing server rooms full of cable nests, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about.

Creating The Perfect Variance Analysis Report: 5 Best Practices

A variance analysis report is used to measure actual performance against your budgeted or planned performance. From a finance perspective, it’s essentially a way to measure your organization’s planning effectiveness. While there are a number of reasons you might be surprised by your variance analysis, it can be a signal that something went wrong along the way and you have not been collaborating with your team, are using the wrong tools, or have ineffective processes.

Why DDoS remains a bigger threat than ever in the age of the cloud

Distributed denial of service attacks are one of the most established, and oldest, modes of cyber attack, dating back at least a quarter of a century to the mid-1990s. The cloud, on the other hand, is one of the newer revolutions in the tech world. While the term "cloud computing" was actually coined at approximately the same time as the inaugural DDoS attack, it is only over the past several years that the cloud has truly become a ubiquitous part of the computing landscape.

How to Build a Multi-Cloud Mindset

We often talk about migrating applications to THE cloud, or running workloads in THE cloud, as if the cloud is one, homogenous environment. The reality is, of course, far more complex. There are private clouds and public clouds—and different public cloud service providers (CSPs) that each have their own particular capabilities and strengths. Modern, digitally transformed businesses usually leverage a combination of these clouds.

Top 10 Tools For Google Cloud Architect

Google Cloud Platform is a complex suite of services that are aimed at satisfying client’s computing, storaging, and application operating needs. App Engine, Cloud SQL, Cloud Speech API, Deployment Manager ( just a share of ) are the proud services of a GCP. All of them are developed for optimizing business and making business-client relationships easy and comfortable for sealing the deals and conversions go high.

Cloud Migration Cost: A Guide

With cloud technology opening up a world of new business opportunities, it has become indispensable for many modern enterprises. From enriching business models and upgrading current infrastructure to delivering the finest customer services, the potentials of cloud technology are immeasurable. To benefit from the cloud, businesses are investing heavily in migrating or modernizing their existing systems to the cloud platform.