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Icinga vs Checkmk: Setup, Cost, Flexibility and Support

Icinga and Checkmk are the two open-source monitoring tools that turn up most often on the same shortlist. Both monitor IT infrastructure, and on a feature list they look close to interchangeable. In practice they are built on different assumptions, and those assumptions decide which one fits. This page works through the differences section by section: setup, customization, integrations, Windows, distributed monitoring, multi-tenancy, licensing, and cost.

How The Medical Industry Has Evolved Over The Years

The medical industry today bears little resemblance to what it looked like just a few decades ago. What was once a field defined by paper charts, in-person-only consultations, and rigid hierarchies of care has transformed into a dynamic, technology-driven ecosystem that touches nearly every aspect of daily life. From the way patients access information to how providers diagnose and treat illness, medicine has undergone a quiet revolution that continues to accelerate.

Moving Your Business Website: How to Avoid Email and Hosting Disruption

Website migration from one host to another is more than copying a few files to another server. A website might depend on databases, e-mail accounts, DNS records, SSL certificates, sub-domains, and other external applications that should continue to function after migration. Proper planning ensures the safety of the information and eliminates any risk of losing access to emails or having people visit a partially transferred website. This can be achieved by preparing the new hosting in advance.

How AI and Digital Transformation Are Changing the Way Consumers Shop for Eyewear Online

The way people buy eyewear has changed significantly in recent years. A process that once required visiting multiple optical stores can now happen from a smartphone or computer. Digital platforms have made it easier for consumers to browse styles, compare options, and make informed purchasing decisions without leaving home.

Top tips: How to become invisible to your own algorithms

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and share practical ways to stay ahead. This week, let’s look at a few simple ways to take back control of your recommendations, and stop your algorithm from deciding who you are. Let's say you search for a video about running—not because you're planning to run a marathon, but because you just saw someone mention it and wondered what the hype was about. You watch one video. Then another.

RISE with SAP: Successfully Managing SAP Operations During the Transition

RISE with SAP is SAP’s methodology and commercial program for implementation and migration to SAP Cloud ERP Private. The product is SAP Cloud ERP Private, renamed in July 2025. Like RISE, GROW also transitioned from product to program, and the product parallel is SAP Cloud ERP Public.

The enterprise changed. ITOps didn't.

The modern enterprise runs on a technology stack that changes faster than the operating model responsible for keeping it available. Applications that once moved through scheduled releases now change continuously. Infrastructure is distributed and dynamic. Services depend on other services, teams depend on other teams, and operational data arrives from more places than any individual can reasonably inspect. The business asked for agility, flexibility, and velocity, and the tech delivered.

What's new from BigPanda: September 2026 Product Updates

Most teams we talk to are fighting the same battle. The knowledge needed to make a decision already exists somewhere. However, it’s locked in a tool your team isn’t looking at, or in the head of the one engineer who’s seen this same type of incident before. This month’s updates all chip away at that same problem. Here’s what’s new.

Run More Internal Hackathons

Internal hackathons are a powerful way to let your teams explore ideas and work together on something fun besides the same old stuff for work. Maybe they want to build something brand new, maybe they want to knock out things that are on the backlog that never get prioritized, or maybe they want to work on something fun but completely unrelated to work.

Every Deployment Platform Is Pivoting to AI. Day 2 Operations Aren't Going Anywhere

Over the summer, Fly.io founder Kurt Mackey announced a complete pivot for the company toward "Computers for Agents", which are ephemeral virtual machines (called Sprites) optimized for AI coding workflows. He was refreshingly explicit about what this means: they are not trying to do both traditional application hosting and AI agent compute. They are choosing one over the other. This is a completely rational bet on the future of developer tooling.