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Curious about Splunk® Universal Forwarders? This article will sum up what they are, why to use them and how the universal forwarder works. Importantly, we’ll point you to the very best tips, tricks and resources on using universal forwarders (and other ways) to get data into Splunk.

You need ways to bring your distributed teams together. That’ll be one of the reasons that you chose Microsoft Teams. It’s a brilliant comms and collaboration platform for connecting your people. But, when it comes to classic telephony, does it stand up to the competition? Basically, yes. And here’s how. To be able to use Teams for traditional corporate telephony, businesses must link their Microsoft Phone System to a virtual PBX hosted by Microsoft in the cloud.

If you are working with large amounts of data that will primarily be used for analytics, a column database might be a good option. There are a lot of different options when it comes to choosing a database for your application. A common discussion seems to be the high-level SQL vs. NoSQL database argument of whether data should be stored in a relational database or in a NoSQL alternative like key-value, document or graph databases.

It is no surprise that cybercriminals are after the money, and banks have plenty lying around. They also have gobs of data, making banks irresistible to hackers who have a field day attacking complex banking IT systems flush with more connections than a movie agent. Here are a few recent facts to know.

In our latest comparison guide for 2023, we'll cover all of the best IT infrastructure monitoring software that you should consider using to maintain uptime and improve your system’s performance.

This is the complete guide to the metrics, methods, and measurements of web performance in 2023. If you run a website, this guide has all the fundamental ideas you need to understand to build a fast website for your users, and for search engines.

How is Google so fast? It’s so fast we take it for granted. It feels instant from the time you search to when results are displayed. What can we learn about the techniques they use to make their site so fast?

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), sometimes known as jank, is a measurement of how much elements move due to late-rendered content. You can think of it as a measurement of layout instability. It has become a common problem for many websites due to third-party scripts and tag management and its one of the new Core Web Vital metrics.

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is a measurement of how long the largest element on the page takes to render. It’s one of several Web Vital metrics that measure how real users perceive the performance of modern web applications. New measurements like Largest Contentful Paint are increasingly important as JavaScript and SPA’s render more content after page load is completed.