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IT Spring Cleaning: Making the best of the current situation

Spring is just around the corner. And since we're at home a lot right now due to the coronavirus pandemic, it's all the more worthwhile to take some time for spring cleaning. But it's not just in our own four walls that the winter grumpiness should disappear; the IT landscape is also in need of a digital spring cleaning.

Resource Roundup: Getting Started with InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud

Are you looking to get started with InfluxDB on Google Cloud? We’ve pulled together our top resources to help you get the most out of your time series data whether that’s coming from your Google Cloud infrastructure or your own application. Read how customers like Wayfair and Vera C. Rubin Observatory use InfluxDB on Google Cloud to solve their time series data collection and processing challenges to power their multifaceted, complex real-world use cases.

SaaS vs. PaaS vs. IaaS: What's the Difference?

Every service you acquire to use temporarily and let go of when you’re done can use the “as a service” suffix. A cab is a vehicle as a service. Rather than buying a car, you merely pay to have another person’s car move you from one point to the next. IT services embody the same model. Browser-based text editors alleviate the need to install fully-fledged word processors on computers.

Key Challenges of Database Cloud Migration

As we shift enterprise computing to the cloud, the need for database migration increases—but with this comes the inherent challenges of migration and the need to plan. Moving to the cloud can come with more risks and obstacles than migrating a database within a data center or from one on-premises data center to another. If a business isn’t fully prepared to migrate, they’re almost certain to run into issues.

Debugging with Dashbird: Lambda Configuration Error

It shouldn’t be a surprise that Lambda configuration error is one of the most common error messages, and we all know AWS error messages aren’t known for being especially detailed. Oftentimes you will come across other vague error messages like “encoding not enabled,” or “stream is failing,” and depending on the context, this could mean your services could be completely down.

Canonical, Collabora, Nextcloud deliver work-from-home solution to Raspberry Pi and enterprise ARM users

March 25th, 2021 – Canonical, Collabora and Nextcloud announce the immediate availability of a content collaboration platform for 64bit ARM for both consumers and enterprises. Building on the prior Nextcloud Ubuntu Appliance it adds with Collabora Online, the first viable self-hosted web office solution on the popular Raspberry Pi 4 platform.

Use Nmap for faster discovery in Cloud Migrations

When starting a cloud migration project, one of the most important and often challenging parts is to have an accurate understanding of what you are trying to migrate. Over time, companies start new projects, which means creating new infrastructure, adding servers, databases, etc. This is a normal part of the development cycle. However, despite best efforts, inventories get out of sync.

Cloud SIEM: Modernize Security Operations and your Cyber Defense

Scott Crawford, Research Director of Information Security at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, joined by Greg Market, Vice President and General Manager of Security at Sumo Logic, discuss the increased adoption of cloud as a deployment model for SIEM. Cloud SIEM and various forms of deployment has become a significant factor for enterprises according to survey-based research at 451 Research.

Get unified visibility of Azure resources under multiple subscriptions | Serverless360

Do you have hundreds of resources under multiple Azure Subscription? Would you like to manage them in the context of business or in groups in single pane of glass? Want to provide restricted access to your team members to focus only on resources they are supposed to. Serverless360 introduces Composite Applications to group your resources in business application context or groups like staging or production.

Achieve end-to-end message tracking across Azure resources and hybrid integration | Serverless360

Serverless360 BAM is a real time hybrid integration solution can be instrumented with the business process definition to capture necessary data in all stages of the business transaction. Resolve issues faster with a unified view of business transactions and get maximum visibility on the integration solution for the functional support teams.