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Pepperdata Lets AWS Auto Scaling Execute More Big Data Workloads

Here at Pepperdata, we continuously work to improve our products and better serve our customers. Whether it’s executing more big data workloads or ensuring their resource consumption remains optimal, we want our customers to get the best value and tangible benefits from our products while not overshooting their big data cloud budgets. Today, we’re bringing you the data to back up our claims that all of this is possible.

Web Performance of the Top 50 E-commerce/Retail Sites in 2021

Many factors have led to the massive increase of online retail sales in 2020 and 2021, including the increasing reliance of online activities from COVID-19. To put the growth into perspective: in 2017 when we last reported on web performance for the world’s leading retail sites, the industry generated around $2.2 trillion in revenue. In 2021, global e-commerce sales are expected to hit $4.921 trillion.

Unboxing BusyBox - 14 new vulnerabilities uncovered by Claroty and JFrog

Embedded devices with limited memory and storage resources are likely to leverage a tool such as BusyBox, which is marketed as the Swiss Army Knife of embedded Linux. BusyBox is a software suite of many useful Unix utilities, known as applets, that are packaged as a single executable file. Within BusyBox you can find a full-fledged shell, a DHCP client/server, and small utilities such as cp, ls, grep, and others.

New report: Ransomware continues to rise. Here's how to get ahead of it.

Ransomware experienced a stunning surge in prevalence and sophistication throughout the pandemic. Threat actors capitalized on a frequently shaky transition to a remote, digital business landscape. With so many businesses prioritizing basic functionality over proactive security, vulnerabilities have been unprecedented – and very much exploited.

AWS Database Types - Aurora vs DynamoDB vs RDS - How do they compare?

In this blog, we describe the different types of AWS’ managed databases and their various features and merits. By the end of the blog, you should have better information to choose the right AWS database that would match your application’s needs.

How to choose between AWS RDS and EC2 Hosted Database?

You’ve decided to migrate your applications from on-premises to AWS and are considering what cloud services are available that suit your needs the best. When you are migrating an application that uses a relational database backend (RDBMS) such as Oracle, MySQL or SQL Server to the cloud, the question of RDS vs EC2 will inevitably surface.

Icinga for Windows Releasing v1.7.0 - Start your contribution

Today we are happy to announce, that Icinga for Windows v1.7.0 has been released! While this release includes lots of bugfixes for the Framework itself including the basic plugins, our main goal was to increase usability and make access for developers a lot easier.

Game Launches Should Be Exciting for Your Players, Not for Your LiveOps Team

The moment of launching something new at a game studio (titles, experiences, features, subscriptions) is a blockbuster moment that hangs in the balance. The architecture—distributed and complex, designed by a multitude of teams, to be played across a variety of devices in every corner of the world—is about to meet a frenzy of audience anticipation, along with the sky-high expectations of players, executives, and investors.

Your Ops and DevOps teams need to work together, and fast. Who you gonna call?

The world is moving fast, led by an ever-accelerating IT landscape. In recent years, two distinct types of teams have emerged that assist in driving this business transformation: DevOps/SRE teams that are in charge of driving rapid innovation of products and services, and IT Ops/NOC teams that focus on preventing outages and maintaining the high level of quality, reliability and serviceability that modern, discerning customers expect.

Anodot Acquires Pileus to Transform the Cloud Cost Optimization Space

We couldn’t be more excited here at Anodot at the announcement of the acquisition of Pileus. Acquiring a company is a very special event, a moment that is the culmination of months of thought and deliberation. Is there a strong synergy between the two entities? Do we share the same DNA and culture? Is the additional product aligned with our long-term vision?