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Today, we are excited to announce that Upsun now offers the latest version of MongoDB to our Enterprise and Elite customers. Clients can now enjoy improved visibility via one source of control, the ability to track multiple applications and users, and native, at-rest encryption that meets the latest security compliance standards. There are more details about the benefits of MongoDB below.

Today we are happy to announce a new look to our account settings dashboard. Many of our customers work in teams, and we have many fantastic team management features to make their work easier. With our latest user interface changes, we have made the team and organization features more intuitive and easier to manage.

When I started my career in information technology, I worked for a large insurance company in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time, they exclusively used Lotus Notes, an IBM product. Even as Microsoft Outlook gained popularity and functionality, the cost of changing email clients was insurmountable, so the company continued using Lotus Notes for many years.

Ubuntu Pro, the expanded security maintenance and compliance subscription, is now offered in public beta for data centres and workstations. Canonical will provide a free tier for personal and small-scale commercial use in line with the company’s community commitment and mission to make open source more easily consumable by everyone.

While working on improving the Netdata PostgreSQL collector, we were monitoring our production PostgreSQL instance and something caught our attention immediately. The rows fetched ratio seemed really, really low for one particular database… there were missing indexes in PostgreSQL! Rows fetched ratio is the percentage of rows that contain data needed to execute the query (rows fetched), out of the total number of rows scanned (rows returned).

Whether you work in Manufacturing, Tech, or Retail, you’ve likely considered the impact of automation in your industry. The rapid digital transformation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic forced many leaders to face this concern head-on. But for IT, there is no cause for alarm. Automation is not designed to replace the workforce; it is designed to be ITs greatest asset.