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Over the past year, much of cybersecurity’s attention has centered on the promise of AI-powered SOCs. But as the Market Guide 2025 by Francis Odum reveals, the true foundation of modern security success lies in the data layer. “Without clean, well-routed telemetry, even the smartest AI is starved of context,” points out the researcher. And that’s where Security Data Pipeline Platforms (SDPPs) have become essential.

We’re excited to announce that VirtualMetric has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification. This is a key step in our mission to deliver secure, resilient, and efficient telemetry solutions. This certification confirms that our controls for security, availability, confidentiality, and data integrity don’t just look good on paper — they work in practice, over time.

For IT teams seeking speed and agility, agentless monitoring offers a lightweight approach. This is particularly useful for Microsoft servers like Windows Nano Server, where resources may be constrained, or in environments where gaining approval for agent installations could be a hurdle. An agentless Microsoft monitoring tool is ideal if: However, there are limitations.

Managing a complex IT environment with both on-premises data centers and multiple cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) brings a unique set of challenges. Commvault’s cloud operations team, led by Ernie Costa, was well aware of the high-performance systems running on technologies like Hyper-V and NVMe storage. In these systems, even a second’s delay could mean missed opportunities to prevent incidents or optimize performance.

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With many virtualization monitoring software options in the market, which is the right one for your entire IT stack? In this post, we’ll explore one of the crucial aspects of making this decision: the choice between agent-based, agentless, and hybrid monitoring solutions. Each approach has its own set of advantages and trade-offs, making it essential to understand which one aligns best with your organization’s needs.

Enterprises evolve and transform into data-driven businesses, which take valuable insights from the data collected to grow and develop their business. This means that massive chunks of data are collected every second and companies search for ways to process it faster, secure and more accurately. The more data is processed, the smarter is the organisation and the greater potential for data-driven decisions is available.

A leading provider of innovative digital and cloud services, part of the Microsoft ecosystem, chose VirtualMetric to get critical insights and complete visibility over their cloud environment. With 38,000 professionals in 24 countries, the company is specialized in cloud and application services, managed services, analytics, AI and helps companies to implement the latest technologies to various industries, leveraging the Microsoft platform.

“End of life, end of support, pandemic-induced shipping delays and remote work, scanning failures: It’s a recipe for a patching nightmare.”, federal cybersecurity CTO Matt Keller says. Ensuring a high level of security for your IT infrastructure and being sure you have not missed something is hard to arrange during these days. A zero-day exploit happens when hackers identify a software weakness or a security gap and take advantage of it to perform a cyberattack.