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JFrog Providers Support the Terraform Community

If you’re reading this blog you’re probably at least somewhat familiar with Hashicorp Terraform and the value it brings to managing the deployment and provisioning of infrastructure resources at scale. We’re big fans and users of it ourselves here at JFrog (see how in our recent webinar!).

Observability: A Concept That Goes Back to the Founding of the Internet

With its market size reaching more than $2 billion in 2020, you’d think that a universal definition of the term observability would have emerged by now. But it turns out that a clear definition of a term or industry isn’t necessarily a prerequisite for the rapid growth of its market size — just ask everyone at your next dinner party to define blockchain for you and see how many different answers you get!

How to Create the Perfect Kiosk Mode on Shared iPads

Since the release of the first iPad, businesses have been clamoring to use it as a corporate device. Over the years, more enterprise capabilities have been added to iPads, allowing IT admins to provide protection while fulfilling various use cases – depending on whether the device is corporate-owned or a BYOD deployment.

What Are the Various Benefits of Automation in Manufacturing?

Every manufacturing unit thinks of maximizing its profits, which can be done by enhancing its production or reducing expenses. Asset management software can be helpful in increasing return on investment (ROI). To increase productivity, one must follow a rigid process of good management in the whole system. Automation plays a very important role in this.

Get started with Grafana OnCall and Terraform

Managing on-call schedules and escalation chains, especially across many teams, can get cumbersome and error prone. This can be especially difficult without as-code workflows. Here on the Grafana OnCall team, we’re focused on making Grafana OnCall as easy to use as possible. We want to make it easier to reduce errors with your on-call schedules, create schedule and escalation templates quickly, and fit on-call management into your existing as-code patterns.

What to Look for in a Colocation Data Center

As the costs of managing and maintaining owner-operated data centers rise, enterprises are reconsidering their infrastructure and attempting to minimize on-premises data center space. Colocation data center providers are an attractive and cost-effective solution, offering physical space as well as power, cooling, network, and security services for their customers.

9 Cloud Cost Mistakes You Don't Know You're Making

When you’re operating in the cloud, making the right decisions is not always easy because there’s a lot of ground to cover, especially with regard to cost. The elastic nature of cloud infrastructure means your costs could quickly spiral out of control if you don’t have guardrails in place to help keep costs down. Properly managing your cloud costs is important, especially for SaaS companies. Cloud spend impacts your COGS, which in turn affects revenue and valuation.

Elastic Observability helps monitor your Azure workloads on the new Arm-based VMs

Microsoft Azure’s recently launched new Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) feature the Ampere Altra Arm-based processor. These new VMs are engineered to efficiently run horizontally scalable workloads such as web servers, application servers, and open source databases. They deliver excellent price-performance and represent an important addition to Microsoft Azure's portfolio of instance types.