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Building a unified analytics platform for ServiceDesk Plus, Desktop Central and OpManager

It's no secret that data-driven IT management can put your organization light years ahead of its peers. The challenge is, how can you bring in data from several IT applications and services into one console for analysis? Analytics Plus, ManageEngine's flagship IT analytics software, has introduced blended analytics that enables users to automatically blend data from ServiceDesk Plus, Desktop Central, and OpManager, and gain a unified view of the IT environment.

Introducing Log Data Restoration on LogDNA

If you’re reading this, I’m pretty sure I don’t need to do much to convince you of the importance of logs. They are the core atomic unit for understanding your environments and provide the insights required to troubleshoot, debug, and more. The fact of the matter is that everyone in your organization needs logs to perform critical functions of their job.

How Sumo Logic monitors unit economics to improve cloud cost-efficiency

An often overlooked aspect of a company’s journey to the cloud is cost visibility. While the single number delivered by the cloud provider on a monthly invoice is straightforward, understanding where this number comes from is often more tricky. Fortunately, this task can be facilitated through the usage of various cost monitoring tools available on the market, coming from both third-party companies and the cloud providers themselves.

Anodot Acquires Pileus to Transform the Cloud Cost Optimization Space

We couldn’t be more excited here at Anodot at the announcement of the acquisition of Pileus. Acquiring a company is a very special event, a moment that is the culmination of months of thought and deliberation. Is there a strong synergy between the two entities? Do we share the same DNA and culture? Is the additional product aligned with our long-term vision?

Game Launches Should Be Exciting for Your Players, Not for Your LiveOps Team

The moment of launching something new at a game studio (titles, experiences, features, subscriptions) is a blockbuster moment that hangs in the balance. The architecture—distributed and complex, designed by a multitude of teams, to be played across a variety of devices in every corner of the world—is about to meet a frenzy of audience anticipation, along with the sky-high expectations of players, executives, and investors.

Icinga for Windows Releasing v1.7.0 - Start your contribution

Today we are happy to announce, that Icinga for Windows v1.7.0 has been released! While this release includes lots of bugfixes for the Framework itself including the basic plugins, our main goal was to increase usability and make access for developers a lot easier.

How to choose between AWS RDS and EC2 Hosted Database?

You’ve decided to migrate your applications from on-premises to AWS and are considering what cloud services are available that suit your needs the best. When you are migrating an application that uses a relational database backend (RDBMS) such as Oracle, MySQL or SQL Server to the cloud, the question of RDS vs EC2 will inevitably surface.

AWS Database Types - Aurora vs DynamoDB vs RDS - How do they compare?

In this blog, we describe the different types of AWS’ managed databases and their various features and merits. By the end of the blog, you should have better information to choose the right AWS database that would match your application’s needs.

Web Performance of the Top 50 E-commerce/Retail Sites in 2021

Many factors have led to the massive increase of online retail sales in 2020 and 2021, including the increasing reliance of online activities from COVID-19. To put the growth into perspective: in 2017 when we last reported on web performance for the world’s leading retail sites, the industry generated around $2.2 trillion in revenue. In 2021, global e-commerce sales are expected to hit $4.921 trillion.