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The Networking API Guide

How to use APIs to automate network connectivity Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) exist to abstract the underlying complexity of a system whilst allowing third parties to integrate and with and extend their own systems and capabilities. At least 50% of all B2B collaboration occurs via APIs. Without access to APIs, partners can't easily interact with an organisation's data or services, meaning that connectivity to infrastructure assets becomes something the organisation has to stop and build itself, leaving it vulnerable to competition

CISA's recommendations on how to recognize and avoid email scams

Just as remote work has grown at an unprecedented rate across the world, so too have the number of email scams. Email is now the most popular attack vectors among adversaries. We've prepared a guide to help you understand the anatomy of popular email-based scams, how they work, and what you can do to avoid them. Key insights from the e-book.

IT Manager's Guide to Container Monitoring

Monitoring needs a radical rethink. The complexity and agility of today's emerging infrastructure demand a new monitoring strategy. The simple and mostly static drill-down approach of traditional monitoring tools no longer works for modern infrastructures based on containers and microservices. Take the first step towards container monitoring by downloading this guide now.

Ensuring Teams Performance when it's OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange Under The HoodBy Nick Cavalancia, Microsoft MV

It has become the backbone of many organizations, where conference calls, meetings, collaboration, and sharing all take place. This dependency makes it a critical application that requires consistent optimal performance to effectively maintain user productivity. For most Microsoft 365 applications, monitoring performance of a service like Exchange Online revolves around Exchange-related services, logs, etc. With Teams however, ensuring optimal performance proves to be a more complex task, and even more so when utilizing native tools.

Prevent and Avoid Costly Downtime

With increasingly complex systems sustaining mission-critical services, IT departments are hard at work designing business continuity strategies to avoid unpleasant surprises. Each year companies lose $26.5 billion in revenue due to IT downtime - either planned or unplanned. When there are critical application failures on the network the costs can hit a staggering 1 million dollars per hour lost in Fortune 100 companies.