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While some companies have never experienced a serious outage in services, it's still smart to invest in a monitoring tool for detecting server downtime. In doing so, it's possible to diagnose problems before they spiral out of control. Organizations may first consider free, open-source tools as a cost-effective alternative to paid enterprise versions. However, these free tools require deeper technical understanding to use them efficiently, with regular manual configurations and updates.

Digital transformation can be a rewarding endeavor for any enterprise, especially now considering the current remote work scenario. Often, organizations leverage the support of the cloud to set up robust digital transformation frameworks. The cloud offers scalability, making it easy to scale up or down. The cloud is also far more dynamic in terms of consumption—you pay for what you use.

While SaaS has made digital transformation a cakewalk, the virtual private network (VPN) takes credit when it comes to remote work. A lot of enterprises, as well as small and medium-sized businesses, continue their seamless operations remotely and securely through their VPN. VPNs enable private networks to communicate with the compute resources of public and shared networks.

People around the world are struggling as the COVID-19 outbreak threatens the safety and security of so many individuals. These days, we all know how important it is to wear a mask, avoid handshakes, and take proper precautions to keep from getting infected. Unfortunately, coronavirus isn’t the only threat that businesses need to worry about right now. Malware unleashed by a black hat hacker can shatter a business’s reputation in seconds.

5G technology, with its speed 10 times faster than 4G LTE, can help businesses realize many long-held goals, like real-time augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), distributed machine learning within the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, smart cities, edge computing, etc. While 5G technology is imminent and likely to transform the pace of business operations, it will bring scalability challenges along with changes to networking architectures.

As a result of the global COVID-19 outbreak, organizations are increasingly encouraging employees to work remotely to preserve their well-being and ensure uninterrupted business productivity. Digital transformation has made this remote adoption possible and exceeded all expectations as far as the growth rate of remote work.

With the advent of the cloud and microservices, application architectures have become complex, and monitoring their performance is critical in protecting your business' bottom line. To troubleshoot performance problems quickly and achieve a reduced mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to resolve (MTTR), the use of an application performance monitoring (APM) tool is invaluable.

Beginning with huge systems occupying large physical space, technology has enabled smaller, versatile devices that can be used anywhere at anytime. From the communications and hospitality industries to the public sector, either on-premises, cloud, or hybrid services were employed to make processes cost-effective.

If you're using a Linux server, you're probably familiar with the term load average/system load. Measuring the load average is critical to understanding how your servers are performing; if overloaded, you need to kill or optimize the processes consuming high amounts of resources, or provide more resources to balance the workload. But how do you determine if your server has sufficient load capacity, and when should you be worried? Let's dive in and find out.

Unresponsive and slow pages are both terrible for any website. Even with the best user interface (UI), unresponsive and slow pages negatively affect the customer experience and the brand's reputation. Research from the Nielsen Norman Group has determined that the average user will leave a site after about 10 seconds of waiting for a page to load. If your page takes longer than a few seconds to load, it's time you check your IIS server logs.