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How to Show Reliability Results to Your Organization

Building momentum for a reliability program can be tough. Improving reliability takes time, effort, and resources. But when everything from launching new features to improving security demands those same resources, it can be a struggle to get the buy-in you need to address reliability risks. And it makes sense! If a team spends time patching a known security bug or creating a new feature, they have a clear demonstration of the value created.

Using PostgreSQL advisory locks to avoid race conditions

The first moments of incident response can be among the most crucial, which in turn can also make them among the most stressful. There are many ways to ensure incidents are kicked off smoothly, but a recent focus of ours was to ensure they could be kicked off quickly. After all, the faster you're able to start mitigating your incident, the more successful you'll be!

Business benefits of artificial intelligence in retail

The retail industry is going through a period of major upheaval. AI is transforming the landscape at a rapid pace. Grand View Research evaluated the market value at USD 5.79 billion in 2021 and this is expected to grow at a 23.9% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2022 to 2030. For retailers, this translates into a need to adapt to an entirely new paradigm of customer expectations.

Mastering Azure Storage: Best Practices for Security, Performance, and Cost Optimization

Azure Storage is a cloud-based service that provides scalable, secure and highly available data storage solutions for applications running in the cloud. It offers different types of storage options like Blob storage, Queue storage, Table storage and File storage. Blob storage is used to store unstructured data like images, videos, audios and documents while Queue storage helps in building scalable applications with loosely coupled architecture.

Overcoming Complexity: Part II

This is the second in a three-part series on Taming Complexity for Competitive Advantage. Part I of this series discusses the need to develop orchestration strategies to deal with the complexities of integrating cross-domain infrastructure. In part II, we introduce the temporal element of change, including the integration technology journeys brought on by mergers and acquisitions.

Hyperview DCIM 3.13 Software Release

We're back with new and improved features including Alarm Policies for more flexible alarm event management. Enhanced functionalities in Bulk Event Management, Asset and Sensor Dashboards, Rack Layout Export, 3D Layouts, and Linux Data Collector's VMware support are now available. Lastly, temperature bands have been updated in line with ASHRAE 2021 Thermal Guidelines.

What is so Pro in Ubuntu Pro?

Open source is everywhere, but what’s its role in your company? According to Synopsys 2023 OSSRA research, around 96% of companies use open source in their codebases. From which at least 84% contained known vulnerabilities. Nowadays vulnerability exposure lasts for around 98 days, which means that the majority of companies are not fixing known vulnerabilities in their codebases for 3 months. This is simply not acceptable.