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Cortex’s Resource Catalog allows engineers to track all of their infrastructure components — from databases to Kafta topics — in a single place. The Resource Catalog demystifies infrastructure, giving developers clear insights into exactly how their service architecture works. Using the Resource Catalog, it’s easy to find information about which infrastructure assets are running and how all the distinct components connect.

A Smart Home System That Does Not Rely On a Cloud

The cloud has been discussed extensively in recent years. Some people believe that it is the future of computing, while others think that it is inherently insecure and unreliable. Whatever your opinion may be, one thing is for sure: the cloud is not right for every application. In this blog post, we will discuss a smart home system that does not rely on a cloud server. Stay tuned to learn more!
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The Economic Crunch is Here: Time to Get AIOps Right

Economic warning signs are flashing, and organisations of all sizes are balancing the need for fiscal discipline and efficiency while fighting to retain customers, when a single negative interaction can send them running to a competitor. Business digital operations are more complex than ever, compounding the problem is that companies are still adapting to remote work and pandemic-driven digitisation. Our recent report confirms that delivery teams are facing increased pressures, unreasonable business demands, and higher rates of burnout.

Internal Social Media Platforms and Risk Management

Whether you're in the IT, finance, or HR departments of any company, chances are high that your team is using some form of social media to collaborate on projects. While internal social media platforms may boost employee engagement, knowledge sharing, and day-to-day decision-making, they also pose a variety of hazards in compliance and litigation that are often neglected. The following are some potential dangers you should be aware of before implementing internal social media in your business, along with suggestions for coping with such dangers.

Nastel Recognized As Top 10 Banking Tech Solution

Banking is about financial transactions. These are executed by sending payments and instructions over middleware. If you control the middleware, then you control the business. If the middleware fails, then the company fails. If you can see and analyze the transactions going through the middleware, you can see the business itself. And if you have real-time analytics of that data and it’s automatically actioned, then you can innovate and accelerate the company’s development.

Open-source cloud for beginners with OpenStack

In the beginning, there was Amazon Web Services (AWS). And AWS set a standard for cloud computing. AWS was fast, flexible, convenient to use and geo-redundant. Definitely much better than legacy IT infrastructure or VMware. A lot of enterprises all over the world started migrating their business applications to AWS.

Service Catalog: Simplifying Service Management and Ownership

With the adoption of cloud and microservices, modern IT infrastructures operate with a mesh of services that cater to multiple user requirements. It can get very difficult to simultaneously keep track of numerous services. A Service Catalog helps organize service-related information in a single pane, achieve end-to-end service ownership and get real-time performance insights.

What is Distributed Tracing and How to implement it with Open Source?

Distributed tracing helps you track requests across services and understand issues affecting your application performance. In distributed cloud architecture, debugging performance issues is complicated. Distributed tracing gives visibility to teams on how a user request performs across different services, protocols, and cloud infrastructure. Let’s start with a brief overview of distributed tracing.

Multi-cloud trends in the media sector

The cloud is helping organisations in the media and entertainment sector unlock new levels of efficiency and speed as they find themselves under pressure to produce and distribute content faster than ever before. In our latest blog we look at how a Network-as-a-Service model can enhance their multi-cloud strategy.

What is AIOps? The Importance of Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations

Modern IT environments are so complex, dynamic, and expansive that humans alone cannot effectively manage and maintain them. As a developer and operator, I have had to deal with failed servers and containers, running out of storage space, slow or unreliable network links, bugs in code, and unpredictable workloads in some applications.