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The pandemic struck the IT industry hard, upending many businesses. The businesses that adjusted best were those with a digital transformation process already in effect. Cut to 2022 and most organizations have started the digital transformation. And the ones that already had established digital transformation initiatives sped up the process. So, what’s next? Digital dominance is the trend; the objective might be transformation, but the goal is beyond just process and strategy improvement.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore how Private 5G is impacting organizations worldwide. Digital transformation (DX) integrates digital technology into different areas of an organization to help change the way it operates and deliver value to its customers. Organizations that offer a higher value to their customers gain a competitive advantage over others in the marketplace.

Calculating the true value of an IT project can be difficult, primarily due to the challenge of quantifying notions through dollar values. For example, automating processes will undoubtedly increase efficiency, but what’s the dollar value of such output?

If you manage a network, every network device generates a large volume of logs. These logs are extremely important and narrate a story about both events and the sequencing of those events within your network. This capability is critical for any network monitoring software, helping you easily understand network activities, user actions, security breaches, and much more.

Dependence on Microsoft 365 and Teams has never been greater, and the pressure is on for IT teams to deliver exceptional user experiences – anytime, anywhere. The modern workplace sees users connecting from the office, home, and pretty much any place in between. This hybrid work model has a significant impact on IT, the network and the overall quality of service perceived by the users.

In this article, we will explain what system performance metrics are and why you need to monitor them. Then we will look at Graphite and Grafana monitoring systems, which make it easy to collect, save and visualize metrics. Finally, we will consider why you should choose MetricFire to monitor your system’s metrics. If you would like to learn more about the benefits of MetricFire, book a demo with our experts or sign up for a free trial today.

When there’s a cardinality explosion, it can cause problems: It’s a surprise, it’s noise, and it can increase your costs or cause performance degradation of your systems. Over the past year, we’ve improved our time series storage systems so that under normal use, high cardinality is no longer an issue. But as the operator of an observability platform, you should have tools you need to help protect that infrastructure.

SDKs naturally increase in size over time. After all, it does take more bytes to implement more features. This is not a big deal for most languages—the relative size of each new feature is small, and load times and storage aren’t big concerns for code running on a server.