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Azure VM health monitoring - what's right for you?

Virtual Machines (VMs) are virtual computers with dedicated amounts of RAM, CPU power, and storage borrowed from a physical host computer. A Virtual Machine is a computer file, typically an image, that acts like a real computer. A Virtual Machine can have any operating system that runs in a window as a separate computing environment. Users can choose between the Linux distribution or Windows Server in the operating system.

Migrating to an open-source private cloud platform: key considerations

Private clouds combine the many benefits of cloud computing, like elasticity, scalability and agility, with the security, access control and resource customisation of on-prem infrastructure. Private clouds allow financial institutions to have greater control over hardware and software choices. They make it easier to enforce compliance with regulatory standards.

6 Best Network Inventory Documentation Tools

Although network inventory documentation isn’t the most glamorous task, it is essential for the success of any IT department. According to Steady Networks, “Workers spend about 22 minutes each day dealing with some type of IT issue.” An accurate network inventory can greatly reduce the time it takes for internal IT to identify and solve issues.

Validate your skills with our new Datadog Certification Program

The Datadog platform has evolved to meet the needs of organizations that are investing in cloud-based solutions and modernizations. These organizations need professionals that are highly skilled and understand how to get the most out of the Datadog platform. With our suite of products, features, and tools in mind, we wanted to offer a path for individuals to demonstrate their knowledge of our best-in-class monitoring platform and their understanding of observability best practices.

Improving Software Failure: Measure, Change, Learn

How do you treat software development failure? Do you take time to measure and learn from software failure? Or do you try to fix it quickly only after your customers complain about it? Failure can be an opportunity to learn and get better. So how can you measure and learn from software failure, and turn failure into at least a partially positive experience? Failure happens all the time, but if you're not measuring it, how do you know what you’re missing?

Remote vs office, Stack Overflow diversity, CTO skills, Meta layoffs, hiring fraud, and more - News

Atlassian releases the State of Teams report, DevOps World 2022 is postponed, Stack Overflow has a diversity problem, CTOs should be technical, layoffs abound, and hiring fraud is just getting weird. These stories and more on Sleuth News. 0:06: Remote vs Office? 0:43: Remote vs Office? (commentary) About Sleuth: Give Sleuth a try and see why it's a deploy-based Accelerate / DORA metrics tracker both managers and developers love.