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Pandora FMS Named An Emerging Favorite In Capterra Shortlist For Server Monitoring Software and APM

The work is hard and there are high expectations, but we don’t give up! The fight goes on and every day we are happier with what we achieve and what we mean to our users. Therefore, Pandora FMS is proud to announce its mention as an Emerging Favorite in 2022 Shortlist for Server Monitoring Software and APM by Capterra, a free online service that helps organizations find the right software.

FinOps: Measuring Cloud Waste

Cloud spend — which research shows makes up 51% of IT budgets — is a prime candidate for company cost savings initiatives with the potential to make a huge difference in gross margins. It’s also an area that has grown dramatically in the last few years due to digital transformation and a rise in cloud demand during the pandemic.

Deeper Insight into the Factors Impacting Microsoft Teams Call Quality

The new release of Vantage DX takes discoverability of Microsoft Teams call quality to the next level, with at a glance insight into the end-to-end environment supporting Microsoft Teams calls, including the network and session border controller(SBC). Check out the Top 10 Questions to Ask about the Microsoft Teams User Experience and read on to understand how Vantage DX provides the answers.

TL;DR InfluxDB, the IoT Stack, and MQTT

The Internet of Things (IoT) describes devices with sensors and computational ability which let them collect, exchange, and act on data. IoT is a broad category that includes uses from smart home thermostats to industrial manufacturing equipment. Sensor data is time series data, and IoT is a common use case for InfluxDB because it can handle the huge amounts of data IoT sensors create.

Grafana Mimir and VictoriaMetrics: performance tests

Grafana Labs Mimir is a new time series database under AGPLv3-license. The engineering team did a great job by taking the best from Cortex TSDB, reducing its complexity and improving scalability in the same time. According to tests by Grafana Labs, Mimir can scale to a billion active time series and 50 million samples/s ingestion rate.

IBM Patches Severe Vulnerabilities in MQ Messaging Middleware

IBM this week announced patches for high-severity vulnerabilities in IBM MQ, warning that attackers could exploit them to bypass security restrictions or access sensitive information. Messaging and queuing middleware, IBM MQ provides enterprise-grade messaging between applications, enabling the transfer of data between programs and the sending of messages to multiple subscribers. Two security issues were resolved in IBM MQ this week, both residing within the libcurl library.