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The Cost of Downtime: How Much Does an IT Outage Cost Your Business?

Life in the world of managed IT services is not without its pleasant surprises. Although we’re an industry of system builders dedicated to facilitating the smoothest of operations possible, downtime still happens. An unexpected system or network failure is not uncommon. In fact, it's inevitable. Even some of the world’s biggest companies can’t get away without painful outages.

What is cloud bursting? Managing sporadic workloads on the hybrid cloud

The DevOps field is engaged in a great, collective migration into the cloud. Businesses are decentralizing their applications and databases, hosting them in the cloud to make them available regardless of geography or user device. Some organizations choose to host their applications on private servers, but in periods of high demand take advantage of the public cloud by directing overflow traffic to cloud servers. This approach is called cloud bursting.

Understand Source Code - Deep into the Codebase, Locally and in Production

Say you have a new code base to study or picked up an open source project. You might be a seasoned developer for whom this is another project in a packed resume. Alternatively, you might be a junior engineer for whom this is the first “real” project. It doesn’t matter! With completely new source code repositories, we still know nothing… The seasoned senior might have a leg up in finding some things and recognizing patterns.

6 Software Innovations That Are Worth Introducing To The Office

In the modern workplace, innovative software is just as important as the employees. There are tools that help with everything from keeping deadlines to task management and more. They come with relatively easy-to-navigate interfaces so that you can easily find what it is that you're looking for and work more efficiently. Let's take a look at a few classes of software as well as a few recommendations that are well worth introducing into the workplace.

Tech Tips To Get A Smooth Start For Your New Business

The startup road is fraught with challenges, from managing within the money constraints to setting up viable operations, staying ahead of the competition, and adhering to regulations. Technology planning may not be on your checklist if starting a venture in a non-tech domain. Likewise, even IT businesses may pay less attention to tech challenges during the initial stages. But you cannot afford to overlook this aspect as technology is the cornerstone of survival in the competitive landscape. It can boost productivity, lower costs, accelerate sales, and open up new markets for your enterprise.

Windows 11 Upgrade? Try Digital Experience Monitoring

It feels like yesterday but believe it or not; it’s been over six months since Windows 11 was officially launched in the market. To be precise, the operating system came out on October 5, 2021. Compared to Windows 10, Windows 11 is packed with enhanced security features and provides faster access to services you already use, such as Microsoft Teams, Skype, the (new) Edge browser, and more. Most importantly, the OS centers on hybrid work and digital experience to empower remote learning.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Survey Now Open for 2022 - Calling All Reliability Practitioners and Leaders

In its fifth year, Catchpoint sponsors The SRE Survey, in partnership with Blameless, to uncover new trends and challenges for teams focused on advancing the reliability of digital products.

Annual Study: Hybrid IT Acceleration Has Increased Network Complexity and Lowered Tech Pros' Network Management Confidence

SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2022-Getting IT Right: Managing Hybrid IT Complexity examines the current state and areas of opportunity for technology professionals managing increased complexity as hybrid IT accelerates. The continued shift to hybrid IT drives increased levels of IT management complexity, but tech pros feel a lack of confidence in how to best manage it. Nearly half (44%) of tech pros said their organization manages hybrid IT complexity through training staff and adopting IT monitoring/management tools (37%)