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Companies are considering switching from Amazon S3 because of: Amazon S3 is seen as the safest choice due to the native integrations, but as object storage has become used for anything from being a cloud data lake, to storing thumbnails for blog posts, Amazon S3 can't be best-in-class in everything. The question remains, is making the switch worth it, and to whom should you switch? ‍

With over 2.5 billion users, Android enjoys a dominant 85% market share in the mobile operating space. It does have one glaring weakness however: enterprise. Most businesses still favor iOS, the operating system of Apple devices like the iPhone and iPad. As part of Google’s bid to secure more of the enterprise market, Android Enterprise is a software platform that provides application programming interfaces (APIs) to developers who build MDM solutions.

The observability landscape is changing fast, as organizations look to deploy applications and separate themselves from competition at a breakneck pace. What are the trends organizations need to be aware of as they make sense of the landscape? Every year, we at Logz.io set out to answer this question by going right to the DevOps and observability practitioners on the front lines.

In the early 2000s, Amazon faced an existential threat: Speed up their pace of software engineering, or risk losing eminence in the burgeoning e-commerce landscape.

High levels of web traffic can lead to network congestion, often causing network latency, and in some cases, outages. Traffic shaping is a technique that can help prevent network congestion by controlling how much traffic enters and leaves a network. We debuted traffic shaping in the release of HAProxy 2.7 and HAProxy Enterprise 2.7, allowing our users to control client upload and download speeds.

IT alerts are difficult to understand, even for experienced professionals. The language of IT alerts is akin to an enigmatic code requiring fluency in dozens of observability languages to extract technical meaning and business impact from a stream of seemingly disconnected events, alerts, and notifications.

There are two types of website owners: those who back up their website data, and those who will soon start doing it. Backing up a website’s data is so critical; losing data can result in substantial revenue loss. There are various methods of backing up your website. This article outlines the top 15 tools for backing up your website externally. We will have an overview of each tool along with its benefits and drawbacks.

Another release of the Netdata Monitoring solution is here!