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When it comes to cloud storage, two of the most popular options are Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3. Both are highly scalable, secure, and widely used by businesses of all sizes. However, there are significant differences between the two that make them better suited for different use cases. In this article, we will take a detailed look at the features, capabilities, and pricing of Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3 to help you decide which one is the best fit for your organization.

A service catalog is a detailed description of the IT services that a company provides to its customers. It shows how services, assets, and business results are linked. It also displays the need for a service and how the service provider will meet that need.

A big part of cloud management is managing and optimizing cloud costs. CloudHealth and CloudCheckr aim to help you manage the cost, performance, security, and compliance requirements of your cloud-based services. Both offer hybrid and multi-cloud deployment capabilities. But we doubt you'll want to use them both simultaneously. So, which one do you choose? CloudCheckr or CloudHealth? In this comparison, we reveal what makes each cloud management tool unique, so you can pick the right one for your needs.

From traditional “brick and mortar” data centers to virtual data centers, we explain the various use cases this facility provides within your enterprise network.

Observability is the practice of equipping software and infrastructure with tools capable of gathering actionable data showing not only when an application error or issue occurs but why it occurred. Most traditional monitoring tools gather information passively; observability practices are different. They focus on actively gathering relevant data, especially factors driving operational decisions and actions.

Learn how to produce and consume records with Apache Kafka Java client library.

When operating a larger business or project, one problem comes quickly apparent: How can I know that my servers and their applications are up and the performance is good across the board? The answer is, of course, monitoring software.

The promise of software as a service (SaaS) has always been value-based pricing. Rather than owning a suite of products they might not need, customers can choose only the services they do need to drive specific outcomes for their businesses. From day one, SaaS was about value. More often than not, products in the enterprise software space fail to live up to this ideal. In light of that, we came up with a crazy idea to help customers accelerate time to value. The idea clearly struck a chord.

Imagine starting your car in the morning and having your attention captured by a little red check engine light. After expressing frustration in your own unique way, your next objective is to determine why this little light has brought darkness to your morning. Your owner's manual clearly outlines how to operate and routinely maintain your vehicle, but all you know about this little light is that you’ll soon be meeting your local mechanic.

Network observability is critical. You need the ability to answer any question about your network—across clouds, on-prem, edge locations, and user devices—quickly and easily. But network observability is not always easy. To be successful, you need to collect network telemetry, and that telemetry needs to be extensive and diverse. And once you have that raw telemetry data, you need to interpret it.