Database Monitoring 101: What Is It? Why Do You Need It?
Data is the foundation of the modern enterprise. Consequently, databases-in all their various forms and formats-are a critical component to the enterprise's IT ecosystem.
Data is the foundation of the modern enterprise. Consequently, databases-in all their various forms and formats-are a critical component to the enterprise's IT ecosystem.
When we think of computers, we typically think in terms of exactness. For example, if we ask a computer to do a numeric calculation and it gives us a result, we are 100% sure that the result is correct. And if we write an algorithm and it gives an incorrect result, we know we have coded improperly and it needs to be corrected. This exactness however, is not the case when dealing with Machine Learning. As a matter of fact, it is par for the course, that Machine Learning will be incorrect a percentage of the time.
A recent Exoprise customer survey found that 60-70% of application problems occur within the enterprise environment or home network/ISP. So, if you need to resolve Teams call quality problems, it's best to investigate your network before you try and finger point to Microsoft. In today's article, we see how this applies to Exoprise when team members work from home or in a hybrid work setting. Last Friday, at about 10:00 am EST, I jumped on an impromptu video call with one of my sales colleagues to discuss an ongoing marketing project. Although I am based in the Northern Virginia area, my comrade (as they say in British English!) is from Boston.
In IT environments, incidents happen all the time and it's impossible to prevent all of them. Regardless of the available software solutions or the level of technical training of both users and developers, no organization is immune to incidents. The increased dependence on IT infrastructure to provide core services means that any disruption in IT services can cause any organization significant financial and reputational harm. For example, IT service providers need to resolve customer support tickets following the service-level agreements (SLAs), and failing to do so makes them liable for breaching such agreements.
Imagine being an Ops engineer in a team just struck by tragedy. Alarms start ringing, and incident response is in full force. It may sound like the situation is in control. WRONG! There's panic everywhere. The on-call team is scrambling for the heavenly door to redemption. But, the only thing that doesn't stop - Stakeholder Inquiries. This situation is bad. But it could be worse. Now imagine being a less-experienced Ops engineer in a relatively small on-call team struck by tragedy. If you don't have sufficient guidance, let alone moral support- you're toast.
Site crashes and outages can cost hundreds of thousands in lost revenue and inconvenience users. Site Reliability Engineering helps build highly reliable and scalable systems, particularly important for companies that depend on their software to support their customers performing critical operations. Hiring a Site Reliability Engineer is the best way to ensure a software system stays up and running at all times. Not only will they help manage infrastructure and applications, but they'll also be able to advise on how to scale a business as it grows - keeping downtime and incidents at a minimum!