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Moving (and moving on up) to Sensu Go at Iforium

I work at Iforium, an eGaming company based on the Isle of Man, where — for the past three years — we’d been using Sensu Core to monitor our infrastructure. Earlier this year we began our migration to Sensu Go. In this post, I’ll share a bit about our journey, offering some background on Iforium and our technical stack, our monitoring pain points, and our take on Sensu Go so far.

Why Password Updating Of Apps Is Important For Security

TL;DR: Experts working with tech companies discuss a lot about security issues, both internally and with clients. Indeed, no software program or app is full-proof. While technological enhancements help companies and individuals to perform better, they enhance the capabilities of hackers too. Naturally, everybody has to take the necessary steps required to protect their interests, and the most common yet effective way to do it is to change passwords frequently.

Updated SharePoint, OneDrive Monitoring

Exoprise recently updated the CloudReady SharePoint sensor for monitoring SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2019 Server. At the same time we separated the CloudReady OneDrive sensor to better segregate the crowd. This was a feature request that customers had been asking for. For both sensors, we upgraded the browser, improved the bandwidth (throughput) tests and a number of other enhancements. Read on for more information about new features and enhancements.

Solutions to Strengthen Your IT Business Continuity Plan

When it comes to “business as usual,” the workflow of IT teams today likely looks quite different than it did even a few months ago. Because of this, being able to adapt and put new safeguards in place that ensure uninterrupted business operations is more important than ever. In fact, it’s a necessity.

How an Oil & Gas conglomerate automated their IT service delivery

Our client is one of the biggest oil and gas conglomerates in India, contributing to around 75% of Indian domestic production. They have been in business for over 60 years, currently employing around 30,000 people. With decades of growth, they have entered into different ancillary companies and expanded globally. The expansion has led to several offices, branches, desks, and teams spread across geographies.

VMware Management Pack Update Release (20.5.1899.0)

The third update release for 2020 of our VMware Management Pack for Operations Manager is now released. Improvements include better performance, extended discoveries of properties, and vSAN monitoring. We also simplified the configuration and licensing experience and moved everything under the administration pane. This will require you to remove the old Licensing UI Management Packs before upgrading.

DevOps Toolchain Explained: What Is & How to Create One. Choosing Between Buying or Building Your Own Tools

Over the past few years, we’ve seen an almost obsession with developing and adopting CI/CD tools throughout the DevOps community. There are thousands of “how-to’s”, “top x tools”, and “tool x vs tool y” type articles, and it has gotten to the point where it’s quite difficult to figure out how and which one to pick as your own.

Customer Story: How App Nouveau Canada Creates Specialized Software with Sentry Error Monitoring

App Nouveau is a Canadian professional services company that builds transportation management system software. As developers of highly-specialized software solutions, App Nouveau needs a robust error monitoring tool to deliver world-class code required by its commercial clients. App Nouveau recently began using Sentry to uplevel a few key areas in the code development lifecycle. Chief Technical Officer Paito Anderson and his team decided to switch to Sentry just a few months ago.

File Integrity Monitoring: Detecting suspicious file activity inside a container

In this blog, we will explore suspicious file activity inside a container and see how to effectively implement a file integrity monitoring (FIM) workflow. We’ll also cover how Sysdig Secure can help you implement FIM for both containers and Linux hosts.