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This blog will explain the Azure Data Explorer, its core concepts, and a few of its significant features. As the data generated by enterprises is growing day by day, data strategists are looking for more effective techniques to handle a massive volume of diverse data. With all these requirements, there emerges a need for a service that can collect, store, and analyze data with optimal performance. Let us see how Azure Data Explorer addresses these requirements.

If it’s not broke, don’t fix it… or so the saying goes. But at RapidSpike that just doesn’t cut the innovative mustard, so we’ve redesigned our website, overhauled our branding and done it all with the intention of highlighting the core functionality behind the RapidSpike site for the customer’s benefit. Here’s what we did and why.

Automation has been at the heart of technological progress as far back as the first industrial revolution. In 1733, John Kay’s revolutionary invention of the flying shuttle increased weaving speeds and changed manufacturing forever. The fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, began in 2010 and ushered in an era focused on digitization and virtualization fueled by IT automation.

Modern web applications can be complex. A typical application stack usually involves several components spread across different layers. For example, HTML5 and AngularJS can make up a site’s front end. User inputs and queries from the front end can be passed on to containerized microservices running on a middleware, which in turn could pass the queries to a back-end database. Systems like WAFs and LDAP servers can be used for security and authentication.

In incident management, observability is the ability of an organization or team to infer a system's internal state from its external outputs.

In my introduction to this blog series, I talked about why Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) is more relevant than ever before. In this second part of the ABC’s of UEM series I will talk about the next set of letters and how they tie into Ivanti. While reading this blog put your own experiences into perspective with how you and your company were forced to work during COVID-19.

The world is constantly changing all around us, and the number of endpoints that organizations are using has increased significantly. Dan O’Boyle, Global Director from Ivanti, believes that there has been a sharp increase in more critical workplace devices needing to be connected and communicating while generating more data. To secure and service these changing mobile assets an evolution is needed.

Did you hear about the latest data breach caused by a stolen password? Technically, it was a user account security token used by the malicious cyber threat actors to gain initial access into the company’s chat workspace. Once on the IT chat channel, the threat actors impersonated an employee and then used a simple social engineering tactic to trick an IT support member into providing them with a long-lived login access token onto the corporate network.

Ensuring a productive remote workspace was one of the main priorities of many enterprises and organization in 2020. A majority of the global workforce across different industry verticals, including the healthcare industry, were forced to work remotely. Healthcare organizations had to quickly update infrastructure and software to support the shift without compromising productivity.

2020 Was…Rough Keeping a Digital Business running has never been an easy job, especially over the last year. 2020 forced many businesses to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives faster than anyone imagined! Customers are demanding more capacity and reliability, the business is releasing more new services – faster than ever before, and companies are learning to use new remote working models, straining systems and people.