Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Want to invest in a virtual private network or SD-WAN tunnel but don’t know which one to use? It’s important to realize these technologies have many differences and serve unique purposes in your business environment. This guide will teach you more and help you make the right purchasing decision for your business.

In the realm of modern digital infrastructure, the concept of virtualization has transformed the way organizations deploy, manage, and scale their IT resources. Among the trailblazers in this domain is VMware NSX, a platform designed to address the complexities of network virtualization. Offering a paradigm shift from traditional networking, VMware NSX helps businesses looking to bolster their data center capabilities.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) dominates the cloud computing industry with over 200 services, including AI and SaaS. In fact, according to Statista, AWS accounted for 32% of cloud spending in Q3 2022, surpassing the combined spending on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and other providers. A virtual private cloud (VPC) is one of AWS‘ most popular solutions. It offers a secure private virtual cloud that you can customize to meet your specific virtualization needs.

The increased use of multiple cloud environments for business software and applications combined with the volume of consumers and different devices demanding reliable, fast connectivity has put an enormous strain on IT infrastructure. Overly complex networks that need to link highly disparate devices and servers can’t also provide speed and consistency while using outdated architecture.

When it comes to arranging your network architecture, there are different methods to consider, each with its own pros and cons depending on your business needs. The way you design your network can improve connectivity for data sharing or increase security. This arrangement of components and their proximity to each other is known as network topology. In this article, we’ll explore network topology, different types of topologies, and how they impact speed, reliability, security, and other functions.

Christina Kosmowski, CEO of LogicMonitor, is here today to introduce the latest innovations for our quarterly Summer 2023 Launch, which is focused on extending visibility wherever your business demands through unified monitoring across your entire hybrid cloud ecosystem! How is it already August? As I look back at the intensely busy spring and summer we had here at LogicMonitor, I can’t help but romanticize the idea of journeys and road trips.

Titles within an organization evolve nearly as fast as the technology itself. For a long time, the title of DevOps was considered a literal interpretation of “Development” and “Operations” – a catch-all term for hybrid roles encapsulating everything from on-prem, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures, to code execution and lifecycle management. Sounds like a lot? It is.

This article is the final installment in a 4-part series on leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) for IT operations (AIOps) to provide a more efficient, reliable, agile, cost-effective, and optimized IT infrastructure. Just as our roads and highways evolve overtime to meet the demands of the travelers who use them, AIOps will continue to transform how organizations build, use, and manage their infrastructures.

Your IT teams are critical to improving the efficiency of your operations and ensuring long-term business scalability. But as your organization grows and demands become more complex, the challenges of managing IT operations can become difficult, especially when managing multiple applications across various server environments. Containerization has become a popular solution for some of these challenges.

For most organizations, having a stable and reliable IT infrastructure is essential for success. But managing multiple servers, databases, and applications can often be difficult and time-consuming. Container orchestration is a standard solution for handling this complexity. Docker Swarm has gained popularity as a container orchestration solution because of its simplicity and scalability.