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Alert noise is reaching an all-time high in IT organizations. The volume of these alerts from disparate tools and technologies has reached a point where they are greatly undermining the ability of IT organizations to properly manage, secure and optimize services and applications for users and customers. DEJ’s recent study on AIOps found that organizations currently spend $1.27 million annually on avoidable incident escalations that result from non-contextual and non-actionable alerts.

Many of the organizations use AWS as their cloud infrastructure, and in general they have multiple AWS accounts for production, staging, and development. Inevitably, this would result in losing track of various experimental AWS resources instantiated by your developers. Eventually, you will be paying AWS bills for resources which could have been identified and deleted in time. So, how should you go about identifying and deleting such unnecessary resources? aws-nuke to the rescue.

What software assets does your organization use? What sounds like a simple question is anything but. If we include every package and dependency that ends up in the code we produce then for most development teams the truthful answer is ‘we don’t know’. As we’ve said enough times already, that really isn’t good enough anymore. And that’s one of the core motivations behind Cloudsmith.

More and more companies move business critical communication instruments into a cloud based environment. This could be established in a partner datacenter or in a public cloud environment. The main deciding factors between these two options are the trust to the provider and the costs of the solution.

First thing’s first: existing users will be pleased to know that upgrading is easy, so there's no need to be concerned about the upgrade process. In fact, Sensu Go 6 (arriving July 23, 2020) is a drop-in replacement for Sensu Go 5. Sensu was originally designed to be a single-tenant system, relying heavily on configuration management tools to move at the speed of automation — AKA, to keep configuration up to date to accurately reflect the state of things.

A website downtime for any online business can be a time of great concern, anxiety, stress, and panic. So many questions will go through the mind of the website owner, such as; A website downtime is indeed a nervy period for any online business, but most especially for small and medium scale businesses still trying to find their feet in a highly competitive and unforgiving business environment.

No company likes to admit that it loses money because of poor inventory management. Whether it’s because you’ve lost the equipment or you don’t know who has it in their hands, you’re wasting time trying to find it, and as they say, time is money… Have you thought about inventory management with a barcode scanner? It’s best to take care of your inventory, and barcode scanner(s) might be the solution.

A video chat with the developers who bring right-sized cloud costing information in real-time. It all started with a casual conversation about the cloud and infrastructure monitoring among the team at Galileo and our parent company, The ATS Group. From there, it quickly evolved into a discussion on how we can alleviate a source of frustration for many of our customers.

We’re excited about today’s release of Grafana 7.1, which extends Grafana’s built-in InfluxDB datasource to run queries in both the Flux language and InfluxQL. This means it’s super easy to connect Grafana to InfluxDB — whether you use InfluxDB 1.8 or 2.0, Flux or InfluxQL. Because this InfluxDB datasource is built into Grafana 7.1, there is no separate plugin to download and install.

Financial firms need to take a holistic view on their financial crime defenses to keep pace with the changing crime landscape. Dealing with the onslaught of attacks has historically elicited a Pavlovian response to this age-old problem — increased regulations or tighter risk management protocols, which in turn have proven to be ineffective over the long term.