One of the challenges when you’re starting out with DevOps is getting the lay of the land. There are a lot of tools out there. And when one of the goals of DevOps is continually improving your processes, it’s important for you to understand how those tools might fit in your infrastructure. At the same time, you want to be efficient. You don’t want to add tools that overlap with one another. Or tools that cost more than other effective alternatives.
This is the second blog in our series releasing the WSLConf recordings. Earlier this year, Canonical had the pleasure of hosting WSLConf, a virtual conference dedicated to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). The conference highlighted ideas and projects from presenters from around the globe with attendees from at least eight different time zones.
Modern-day life is fast, hectic, demanding. Time is precious, and we often need to be able to squeeze every atom of efficiency from our environment and our tools. But sometimes, the best thing you can do for your productivity is – to do nothing. Sometimes, less is more. In this article, we want to show you a number of nice, fun and not-strictly-productivity-focused apps that can help you relax, forget about the time-efficiency continuum, and recharge your cells for the next lap in the race.
Service alarms are going off and you are on the hook to restore stability, but you need to prevent any more changes to production while you dig further. You could "freeze" production by announcing it in the office, sending a message on Slack, or sending an email to the affected teams, but that may not be enough or may require extra work that would distract you from debugging and fixing the problem.
In most of our blogs, we spend a TON of time going on about protecting our endpoints, looking at sysmon, checking the firewall, correlating IDS data and the like… Today, we're going to shift gears a bit and look at security from a different angle. Recently, there has been a tremendous focus on the shifting paradigm of a workforce that primarily resides in corporate offices, to a highly virtual workforce sitting at their kitchen tables.
In this survey of over 200 CIOs in the US, the IDC analyses the critical role played by Log Analytics in any modern infrastructure.
As online commerce has boomed, many companies now manage a large number of revenue streams from a variety of sources including micro-transactions, single purchases, and subscription plans. Now that revenue models have become much more complex and fragmented, many companies have realized that their traditional systems simply aren’t capable of the scale and granularity required for accurate revenue monitoring.
To deploy and run Linux on System z, virtualization, multi-layer virtualization using LPARs and z/VM is required . z/VM is used as the second layer virtualization within in LPARs to allow hundreds or thousands of virtual machines within a single physical system. The NiCE zLinux Management Pack for SCOM provides monitoring of Linux distributions on the IBM System z platform using Microsoft System Center.
