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HIPAA-Compliant Text Messaging: Best Practices and Policies

HIPAA compliant text messaging enables healthcare providers to securely communicate with patients and other healthcare providers. To ensure HIPAA compliance, you need to use HIPAA standards to create secure electronic data transmissions (in this case, text messages). The goal is to secure transmissions that contain protected health information (PHI).

Moogsoft Express Helps DevOps and SRE Teams Develop More and Operate Less

“Welcome to Tomorrowland.” That’s how Moogsoft Chairman and CEO Phil Tee kicked off the launch event of Moogsoft Express, the next-generation AIOps and observability solution built from the ground up for DevOps and SRE teams. The reference to a better future is fitting. With its arrival, Moogsoft Express helps these teams maintain visibility and control over increasingly complex CI/CD pipelines, so they can detect issues earlier, fix them faster and prevent outages.

What is Apache Kafka and will it transform your cloud?

Everyone hates waiting in a queue. On the other hand, when you’re moving gigabytes of data around a cloud environment, message queues are your best friend. Enter Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka enables organisations to create message queues for large volumes of data. That’s about it – it does one simple but critical element of cloud-native strategies, really well.

Digitization through Open Source Solutions during COVID-19

The world has been on a tough break these past few months. With countries talking about defeating the COVID-19 Pandemic, but contemplating infection fears again, we are experiencing a new normal that has all of us second guessing what we know about life as-of-now. This ambiguity is most visible, when we are discussing business.

Container Technology - A Quick Introduction

Containers, the biggest innovation in the shipping industry, have standardized dimensions so that they can be loaded and unloaded, stacked, transported efficiently over long distances, and transferred from one mode of transport to another. Taking a cue from this, think of a server as a ship and an application as a crate. A couple of decades ago, only one app could be deployed on one operating system meaning, a single crate on a single ship.

Internal Applications: Monitoring from Behind Your Firewall

As companies decide whether or not to move ahead with an “everything in the cloud” strategy for providing consumer-facing applications, enterprise applications are also getting a new shape with web-based applications to support internal business operations. These applications live inside the private network of the organization and often have role-based access.

An Elevated View of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service Architecture

Before getting started using the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Service for vSphere, it helps to have an understanding of the Kubernetes architecture and the underlying technology that makes it possible. In this post, by starting at the lowest layer and zooming out, we will paint a picture of how all these technologies are interconnected. This is an introduction, not a deep dive, and as such is meant to be a high-level overview for anyone getting started.

Learn Design Principles and Components of the Kubernetes Machine on KubeAcademy

We’re excited to announce a new KubeAcademy course—The Kubernetes Machine. If you make architectural decisions, manage infrastructure day-to-day or deploy apps to Kubernetes, The Kubernetes Machine course will teach you how Kubernetes works. The advanced course dives into the Kubernetes machine and its design principles and components. You’ll learn what makes Kubernetes so effective as a container orchestration system.

Production Process Optimization with the inray OPCUA Router and InfluxDB

In a factory environment, collecting data to gain useful insights from various sources is challenging because it requires connecting to many different types of automation systems, plcs and devices that often speak different languages. This is the problem that German industrial software company, inray (specialized in data communication between software systems and components in Industry 4.0, IoT and IIoT) set out to solve for its customers.

Elasticsearch Performance Tuning - Index Design

You’ve created the perfect design for your indices and they are happily churning along. However, in the future, you may need to reconsider your initial design. Maybe you want to improve performance, change sharding settings, adjust for growth. Whatever the reason, Elasticsearch is flexible and allows you to change index settings to improve your Elasticsearch Performance Tuning. Let’s see how to do that!