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IT infrastructure monitoring as a whole picture is about keeping track of the health and performance of all the IT assets in a network environment. The network management system gathers data on various metrics, like availability, health, performance, and utilization. Then IT infrastructure monitoring transforms this data into useful statistics that help enterprises scale their businesses.

Spending two decades in the middleware field has given me deep insight into the evolution of this technology domain. I began my career as a software engineer in a platform group, building reusable components using technologies like object linking and embedding (OLE), the distributed component object model (DCOM) and common object request broker architecture (CORBA).

When you’re on-call for a critical service and get alerted to an issue that could impact customers, you need quick access to key performance metrics in order to effectively troubleshoot. But all too often, digging into this data requires you to switch from your mobile device to a laptop, restricting your ability to troubleshoot on the go and disrupting your routine.

Workday is a cloud-native solution for enterprise management. With its multitenant architecture, which supports a wide range of integrations and enables centralized administration of multiple Workday instances (i.e., tenants), Workday provides a unitary framework for managing human resources, financials, payroll, recruiting, analytics, and more. Along with Workday’s cloud-based delivery model, this multifaceted support offers flexibility that can be critical at enterprise scale.

Wondering what the best way for employees to work more efficiently is? According to a Gallup poll, an engaged and productive workforce can increase corporate profits by as much as 21%. With the talent competition only increasing, every company’s IT and business leaders need to consider implementing workplace productivity strategies. In this article, we share tips for optimizing productivity levels for a modern workforce and exploring new ways of measuring it daily.

The DNS is the most critical part of network infrastructure and the only doorway to the internet. We at ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corp, understand this criticality well and have carefully designed software that helps IT infrastructure management professionals securely manage their domains’ DNS records and elude modern problems in DNS management. We’re excited to introduce ManageEngine CloudDNS, the first critical infrastructure management software in our portfolio.

With Datadog’s Dash conference right around the corner, we at Cortex have been thinking a lot about best practices for observability. To get the most out of an application performance monitoring (APM) vendor like Datadog, you want to make sure monitoring and observability are built into launch and production readiness checklists.

Debugging is an unavoidable part of software development, especially in production. You can often find yourself in “debugging hell,” where an enormous amount of debugging consumes all your time and keeps the project from progressing. According to a report by the University of Cambridge, programmers spend almost 50% of their time debugging. So how can we make production debugging more effective and less time-consuming?