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Mattermost has proudly served government and public sector organizations of all types since we got our start in 2016. We have always embraced our role as the open source collaboration platform that can deliver developers and other technical teams the tools needed to accelerate digital operations through better collaboration, in a secure and self-managed environment. Today we emphasize our commitment to these organizations further with the launch of Mattermost Government Solutions.

“Adapt or die (and let others take your share of the cake)” is both an evolutionary law and a business law. Without going any further, today, the rise of new technologies and critical applications have led to a substantial change in data centers.

Deck the halls! It's time for the annual holiday Code Freeze, that festive time of year when businesses impose a precautionary halt to code changes and Operations should be quiet. But before you kick up your feet, make sure that demand doesn’t lead to availability embarrassments. After all, retail experts suggest that we’re in for another online-heavy holiday shopping season, so businesses need to brace for increased digital traffic...with little tolerance for failure.

For organizations growing larger by the day, network management becomes increasingly complex, and scaling to meet this growth can be a major headache. To battle such complexity without a graphic representation of a network is a tiresome task, which is where network diagram software comes in. Network diagram software allows a network admin to portray the network clearly and legibly through detailed graphics.

Mattermost v6.1 is generally available today and includes the following new features (see changelog for more details).

The world has changed since I started out on a help desk in Colorado 25 years ago. In those long ago years, a company’s desktop machines actually lived under the desks of many in the organization (and often doubled as a foot warmer!) and configuration was done machine by machine manually, or maybe even by some script that was created to run at login if we were lucky. If there were laptops in use by the business users, they were a lot less mobile and rarer than in today’s business world...

Tomas Fedor, Head of Infrastructure at Productboard, is here to talk about his personal passions and professional perfections. Tomas takes us through some of his biggest adaptations he had to make when adopting the cloud. He also tackles the complexities of working through his POC process, and how to keep consistencies across various teams. Teams are a central focus for Tomas as well, and his techniques and experiences in growing and leading specific technical teams is insightful.