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5 ways network compliance makes your life easier as a network admin

As a business owner, if you want to ensure your success, you must establish and maintain network compliance. It may seem demanding, but by having a solid understanding of the laws and standards that apply to your industry, you can overcome many challenges that may arise. If you operate in industries like finance and healthcare, complying with numerous regulations may seem even more daunting, but it's crucial to demonstrate your commitment to delivering exceptional quality.

Kubernetes 2024: Challenges and solutions

Kubernetes has become the world's leading container orchestration platform, aiding small-scale to large-scale businesses in automating, autoscaling, and managing application deployments. Before delving deeper, let's understand why cloud-native solutions like Kubernetes have become the world's—especially organizations'—favorite technology. Creating highly scalable, resilient applications requires flexible infrastructure management.

Forward logs from Google Cloud Platform to Site24x7 with Dataflow

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enables organizations to create and scale applications. Activities in applications, whether on Compute Engine or other services from virtual machines to serverless environments on GCP, produce a significant amount of logs. Logs play a crucial role in helping you achieve effective observability and troubleshooting. But the logs may experience irregular surges in data ingestion during major system events, posing challenges for network overhead.

SysAdmin's guide to migrating from CentOS

CentOS EOL - Are you affected? CentOS used to be community driven. Imagine an OS being tested by a global community of volunteers against a testing team in a company—that gave CentOS unmatched stability. An OS that came with Securuty-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) by default and also included 10-year support meant it was the favorite of both individual developers and enterprises as well (even Facebook, now known as Meta, used CentOS for its data centers).

Beyond the box: Custom monitoring with Site24x7 plugin integrations

Organizations today navigate through a myriad of popular and unique applications, intricate systems, and custom services in their IT infrastructure. Each of these elements plays a crucial role, offering insights into the organization's performance or indicating potential issues on the horizon early. This visibility enables organizations to maintain system functionality and ensure uninterrupted operations.

2023: The year of IT resilience!

As we close out another year, we want to take this moment to thank you, our customers, for your continued support. Whether you have been with us from the start or are just discovering our brand, we appreciate your business. This year's theme is IT resilience, which refers to the ability of an organization to withstand, adapt, and recover from disruptions or attacks with minimal or no impact.

Top 6 reasons for website downtime and ways to prevent it

Top 6 reasons for website downtime What is website downtime? Website downtime is a period during which a website is unavailable to its users, making them unable to carry out desired functions such as making purchases, accessing information, or ordering food. In a fast-paced digital landscape where users expect instant access, any delay or unavailability can have significant consequences for a website's business and reputation.

Incident communication best practices for an elevated user experience

Downtime is unavoidable, and incidents happen. Organizations need to be rapid and transparent in communicating incidents with their customers. Lack of timely communication can jeopardize the entire incident management process and increase user frustration. This guide provides rich insights into what incident communication is, why it's important, and best practices for effective incident management. What is an incident, and why is incident communication important?

Nine tips for building an effective digital resilience strategy

Is your business ready to not only withstand but also thrive during digital disruptions? Today's business landscape heavily relies on digital technologies and online services. Digital resilience has become a critical concept to ensure business continuity and safeguard data.

VMware performance monitoring: Importance, benefits, and best practices for optimal VMware performance

Virtualization involves creating multiple virtual instances on a single physical server, allowing for efficient utilization of hardware resources and isolation of workloads. Businesses prefer a virtual environment as it can be tailored to meet specific security and performance requirements, and it provides numerous customization. The concept of virtualization became accessible after the emergence of VMware, a cloud computing virtualization platform for hosting complex architecture effortlessly.