Understanding the Rasmussen model for failures
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How to secure your database
Cybersecurity threats are increasing in volume, complexity and impact. Yet, organisations struggle to counter these growing threats. Cyber attacks often intend to steal, damage, hijack or alter value-generating data. In this article around database security, we use the NIST framework to lay out the common controls that you can implement to secure your databases. Let’s start by discussing the potential impact of unsecured databases.
Enhance Business Processes with Azure Logic Apps Monitoring to Unlock Seamless Integration.
Handling Logic Apps' potential for various integration scenarios should be considered when managing integration processes, especially at a higher abstraction level like the Order business process. But with Serverless360's Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) capabilities, you can provide your users: Join us in this video as we dive deep into the seamless integration of Logic Apps with Serverless360, empowering you with efficient process management and real-time visibility.
Authenticating Users with Google IAP in Rails
Google Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) is a Google Cloud service that provides authentication for web applications. This service simplifies the process of building web applications authenticated with Google, eliminating the need to handle user-related concerns within your application code. This is especially valuable for internal applications within organizations that already utilize GSuite. It is straightforward to use, particularly when operating on Google Cloud.
Help reduce resource consumption: Put your preview environments on pause
With Upsun, every Git branch maps to a preview environment which is an exact and isolated copy of your live application—including all data, services, and files. They are usually created to build new features, apply security patches, or upgrade dependencies in full isolation and before deploying to production. Although there is a catch—preview environments are often left idle waiting for someone to review and approve any changes made.
The Top FP&A KPIs And How To Choose Yours
You know this by now. You can only improve an area of your business if you measure its health and performance. Yet, rather than collecting every general finance metric possible, you’ll want to plan, collect, and analyze the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that’ll drive strategic decision-making. That means KPIs are a subset of metrics that are most relevant to your goals as a team. Here’s how to leverage the right KPIs as an FP&A team.
Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus
In part I of this blog series, we understood that monitoring a Kubernetes cluster is a challenge that we can overcome if we use the right tools. We also understood that the default Kubernetes dashboard allows us to monitor the different resources running inside our cluster, but it is very basic. We suggested some tools and platforms like cAdvisor, Kube-state-metrics, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubewatch, Jaeger, and MetricFire.
Sending Metrics - MetricFire Tutorial
This tutorial will show you the steps to successfully send your metrics using our HostedGraphite. We talk about all types of protocols supported, manipulating the metrics sent in graphs, types of metrics, and much more.
Private Connectivity to IBM Cloud - Portal Demo
Brian Bowman, Solutions Architect at Megaport, will guide you through the process of setting up private connectivity to IBM Cloud via IBM Direct Link, using both the Megaport portal and the IBM Cloud Management Console. This video is perfect for customers who want to enhance their throughput capabilities and establish a secure connection to the IBM Cloud. Get ready to learn and take action!
Maximize Long-Term Savings From Cloud Providers with Densify
One of the first considerations for FinOps teams trying to lower their public cloud spend is investing in long-term savings vehicles available from their Cloud Service Provider. These programs can provide customers with upwards of 72% savings off on-demand prices, in return for a 1-to-3-year usage commitment, so it’s pretty common that we see them in use by our customers.