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Financial services firms face three key network issues: maintaining compliance with an array of regulations, keeping a growing horde of financial data hungry hackers at bay, and earning the trust of users with an always-on responsive network. Financial data is so valuable, cybercriminals make getting it a top priority. And financial services networks are so interconnected and complex, there are all sorts of ways hackers can try to break in. The security threat to finance is more than bad.

To run Tracealyzer 4 on Linux, the first thing you will need to install is Mono. For most distributions there’s a package called “mono-complete”, though some distributions and package systems may instead use simply “mono”. There may be additional requirements, in particular for Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora based systems. See below for distribution specific instructions. Mono version 5.14 (or newer) is required for Tracealyzer.

I have been playing around with the Trello REST API recently. To my surprise, there doesn't seem to be any actively developed client package for.NET and Trello doesn't show examples in C# on their website. Here's a quick overview of what I have learned.

Liquid IT is a New Zealand IT services company that delivers cybersecurity, network connectivity and integrated workspace services to government and corporate clients in New Zealand. The firm manages a hybrid IT environment for its customers that includes Microsoft Azure cloud services, Cisco Meraki cloud network services, plus on-premises compute, storage and networking from the likes of VMware, Dell EMC, Nutanix, AeroHive and Palo Alto Networks.

Digital demands from students and staff to keep pace with modern education methods has put a lot of pressure on IT operations. Consistently delivering quality service for all is a tall order. Technology advancements, IoT proliferation, device demand, lower cost, and ease of wireless access means supporting all the things is the job facing education network administrators.

At the end of the last century I had the opportunity to help in a very ambitious computer project: the search for radio messages emitted by extraterrestrial civilizations… And what the hell does it have to do with Distributed Systems? Recently my colleagues wrote an interesting article on distributed network visibility, which I really liked and I came up with the idea of taking it to the next level.

Operational Resilience has always been the goal of any financial institutions IT Team but achieving “always available” and “always secure” is more complicated to achieve than many would expect.

Previously announced as a community-led project, the Terraform provider for Honeycomb is now officially maintained by Honeycomb in partnership with Hashicorp. We recognize how valuable supporting configuration as code is for our customers, and this change in ownership affirms our commitment to ensuring your ability to quickly make the most of Honeycomb’s Management API.

We’re well into 2022, and it’s full steam ahead addressing challenges and moving IT and SRE projects to completion. Are you ready for the challenges ahead of you? Do you feel prepared to handle the work you know about…and the work that’s sure to come your way? Are you ready for the end-of-the-year budget planning process that will be here before you know it? To help, I’d like to share my learnings from 20+ years in IT.