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Cloud migration can be a powerful way for organizations to reduce costs and improve efficiency. However, simply moving to the cloud is not enough - there are a number of tactics that teams can adopt to maximize cost savings. In this article, I will first explore some common tactics that cloud migration teams use to reduce costs, then share advanced strategies that our most successful customers use to truly take advantage of the cloud for all of its far-reaching benefits.

The main purpose of ITAM software is to provide you with a complete and comprehensive inventory of your organization’s IT assets. However, narrowing this to technology leaves out non-IT assets, and prevents you from managing your stock cost-effectively. For that reason, it’s essential to build a non-IT asset inventory along with the hardware and software ones. This way, you’ll have a truly unified inventory to see your assets’ relations and act in consequence.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a strong trend emerging in enterprise network security, representing the long-term capability to integrate and consolidate a variety of networking and cybersecurity tools. Let’s do a quick dive on the technology to understand why it’s necessary. SASE emerged as an outgrowth of the software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) technology movement, which made it easier to configure, orchestrate, and manage WAN connectivity from enterprise branches.

With the increasing computing requirements and complexity of data center systems, unplanned downtime has become a severe threat to enterprises in terms of process violations, revenue losses, and reputational issues. Although data center failures are quite common, it can be difficult to predict every scenario that might have a severe impact on the expansion of your company. Especially when some factors, like a natural disaster, can simply be beyond your control and result in data center outages.

It is impossible to allow communication between computer systems, servers, routers, switches, and other network-enabled devices without following a set of protocols. Without protocols, devices would be unable to understand the electronic signals sent between them via network connections. Every day, billions of individuals utilize network protocols, whether they are aware of it or not. Each time you connect to the internet or make a phone call, you are using network protocols.

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is an industry standard for IT service management, and it has become the go-to framework for organizations that need to manage their IT services. One of the critical components of ITIL is the Service Knowledge Management System (SKMS). An SKMS is a comprehensive repository of all the information related to IT services, including processes, procedures, and best practices.

Most people are unaware of the “full stack” in web development that includes the front-end user interface, middleware servers, and backend database. Casual technology users around the world usually only experience the front end, which renders the cute graphics and friendly colors your brain enjoys seeing as you browse, shop, and comment on social media.

This blog post is a how-to guide for Kubernetes troubleshooting. Our vision is that any engineer can keep Kubernetes-based applications up and running smoothly, regardless of their level of Kubernetes expertise and their knowledge of the services in the environment. Right out of the box, StackState aims to monitor, alert and then guide an engineer directly to the problem, helping them remediate the issue quickly.

When it comes to cloud infrastructure, there are countless options available. From the easy-to-use and scalable Heroku Enterprise to the powerful and versatile AWS, it can be difficult to know which platform is the best fit for your business. However, more and more companies are finding that Heroku Enterprise is not the best choice for their needs and are switching to AWS.

Are Citrix latency causing issues for your end users? Pin-pointing the root-cause of latency can be a challenge because it can occur in any part of the network and in any tier. Knowing where to start troubleshooting can mean the difference between end-users not noticing and a flood of support tickets on the service desk. In this guide I teamed up with eG Innovations to talk about what Citrix latency is, why it matters, and how we can improve it.