Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a wonderful marketing term given to devices that are connected to the internet. Today everything from light switches, air conditioners to door locks have the option of being internet-connected. Now that multiple companies have created “tags” that you can add to anything from keys to cars and packages, anything can be tracked. Across the business, industry, and retail almost every physical component has the option of being internet-connected.

Digital operations management is about harnessing the power of data to act when it matters the most. It’s also about having the right processes and procedures to support teams when every second is critical. Maturing your digital operations takes time, iteration, and commitment. The change won’t happen overnight. But, if you put in the effort, you’ll reap outsized benefits. You’ll be able to learn from incidents and proactively improve your services over time.

For any company working in the cloud or using managed cloud services to create products, cloud costs represent a significant expense. If you lead an engineering team, you may have to defend your bill to your CEO or CFO. But here’s the challenge: Cloud costs can be difficult to communicate because engineers and executives often think about cost from different perspectives. As an engineer, you may think of costs in terms of AWS services, such as EC2 instances, storage, etc.

Anodot recently took part in the 2021 Data Agility Day, an event dedicated to examining how organizations are extracting value from data. CEO and Co-Founder David Drai was joined by David Ashirov, VP of Data at Freshly, where he has worked to build a data stack that departments across the company could leverage to drive business. Ashirov is a senior executive with two decades of experience in data engineering, business intelligence, and marketing.

As the world watches the UN Climate Conference unfold in Glasgow, the manufacturing industry is under increased pressure to reduce its CO2 emissions. Companies are stepping up to the challenge, but much more remains to be done to keep climate change under control. Digitalization is part of the solution. The Power of Data has much to offer such as environmentally friendly manufacturing, efficient logistics, improved building and energy management and optimized renewable energy production.

When managing distributed environments, we find ourselves challenged with looking for different ways to understand performance better. Telemetry data is critical for solving such a challenge and helping DevOps and IT groups understand these systems’ behavior and performance. To get the most from telemetry data, it has to be captured and analyzed, then tagged to add relevant context, all while being sure to maintain the security and efficiency of user and business data.

The future of healthcare is personalized, joined services shaped by actionable insights. That relies on building secure digital health services that customers can trust. Cyberattacks are getting more sophisticated and harder to detect, and the damage to businesses and their reputations can be difficult to recover from. Although security is complex, resources can be scarce. Getting the best return on investment is crucial to balance protecting customer data with safeguarding service delivery.

Organizations need tools to manage their infrastructure, which today is expanding beyond the data center to include multiple public clouds. In fact, in a recent survey of hybrid cloud decision makers, we found that the vast majority of respondents (88%) have placed more than one-quarter of their workloads in the public cloud, and 44% indicated that they’re running more than half of their workloads in the public cloud.

1st November 2021: Today, Canonical announced support with Microsoft for Microsoft SQL Server with Ubuntu Pro on Microsoft Azure. Canonical has worked with Microsoft to bring a highly performant and fully supported solution for SQL Server to market, based around the Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS operating system.

It’s official: since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercrime has increased by 600%. Among these, ransomware attacks are estimated to cost $6 trillion in 2021 alone. And there were nearly 550,000 ransomware attacks per day in 2020. The question is: are your workloads secure enough? In this blog, we will discuss how to make your Open Source workloads more secure in one second.