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As COVID-19 cases began to rise around the world in March 2020, governments and businesses had no choice but to take extraordinary measures to flatten the curve. As an IT leader, you were likely tasked with helping entire companies transition to remote work all at once. Cubicles were replaced by home offices. Face-to-face meetings were replaced by video calls. Work performance was measured by tasks completed instead of hours worked. Digital connectivity became more important than ever before.

We are in the midst of an unprecedented convergence of events that are forcing enterprises to dramatically change how they secure their modern businesses. With the acceleration of digital transformation from COVID-19, work-from-home initiatives, the continued growth of SaaS and the increasing adoption of microservices-based applications, the modern enterprise threat landscaping is transforming rapidly.

Kimberley Wadsworth gambled £36,000 in a fortnight, committing suicide shortly after the loss and leaving her mother homeless as a result. Kimberley Wadsworth started gambling in 2015, visiting brick-and-mortar shops and playing at online casinos. There was no one to promptly alert or save Kimberly from her dreadful destiny.

Working together successfully as a team — especially in this increasingly remote world — is all about collaboration. As part of that collaboration, it’s critical that team members have access to the files and programs they need to accomplish their jobs, and that access should be easily revocable for when employees change roles or leave the company. This is achieved through access control, which, simply put, defines who is allowed to access what.

Each year, I look forward to Now at Work. When you’ve been doing this as long as I have, though, you look forward to some years more than others. Fortunately, this is one of those years, and the reason why is right there in its name. Has there ever been a more exciting time to explore what’s happening now at work?

Some of you may have attended the recent webinar on how to simplify ticket remediation with ML-Powered Analysis. We’re thrilled to announce that we have packaged the new app shown in that demo – the Smart Ticket Insights App for Splunk – and it is now live on Splunkbase!

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines have become fundamental to modern software development and code deployment. Implementing CI/CD practices can let teams deploy code more quickly and efficiently. But with these methods come a number of new challenges: bad code deploys are a major source of downtime and can lead to a loss of revenue and customer trust.

"A long time ago in a data centre far, far away.... Our first episode takes us back to the early days of launching Civo, where we had a fledgling Ceph cluster with a bunch of SSDs in each. Those were darker times, in the early days of OpenStack. As time went by the cluster grew, new bigger nodes were added along with bigger disks.

In early 2020, the Wavefront team was merged into the newly formed “Tanzu” portfolio under VMware’s Modern Applications business unit.

Often there’s a focus on how a service is running from the perspective of the organization. But what does service health monitoring look like from the perspective of a user? Today, understanding your end users’ experience is a key component of ensuring your website or application is functioning correctly. Having a website that is performing well regardless of location, load, or connection type is no longer a nice-to-have, but rather a requirement.