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.

Women's Equality Day allows for an opportunity to reflect on how far women have come in the search for equality, but also how far we, as a society, still have to go. Below, a number of women in technology share their thoughts and insights about how businesses can proactively champion women in tech, while creating a fairer platform for all.

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!

When you are trying to juggle a complex tech stack, it is often difficult to keep everything running smoothly. Achieving operational excellence can seem like an impossible task, but with the right solutions in your corner, your tech stack can run like a well-oiled machine. Combating the challenges of a complex and convoluted tech stack begins with identifying unifying applications.

For most businesses, effective digital transformation is a key strategic objective, and as computing infrastructure grows in complexity, end-to-end observability has never been more important to this cause. However, the amount of data and dynamic technologies required to keep up with demand only continues to increase, and current tools are not equipped to handle it- with any discrepancies resulting in rising costs and reduced competitiveness.