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While SCOM is a valuable monitoring tool, you may also be using a suite of monitoring tools, such as SolarWinds to monitor network devices, VROps to monitor VMware, and Nagios to monitor your Linux devices, as all these tools are best in class. But, you don’t want to be looking in numerous different consoles to gather all your monitoring data!

Investigating your family tree can be an interesting experience. For example, what if you discovered you were related to a famous person who won a Nobel Prize or performed a heroic act? Conversely, what if you realized you had an ancestor who was an infamous criminal? Much like examining your genealogy can be an exciting adventure, looking at the family tree of your database can prove to be just as rewarding. Databases occasionally undergo a phenomenon known as drift.

This summer has seen a series of outages and performance degradations from some of the world’s most widely used CDNs, including the June 8, 2021 Fastly outage (owing to DNS or configuration issues) and an Akamai outage on July 22, 2021 (also likely caused by DNS failure).

There’s no strict definition of a distributed system. But generally speaking, if you have reached a point where you’re running more than five interdependent services at once, that means you’re running a distributed system. It also means you are more than likely experiencing difficulties when troubleshooting using traditional debugging tools. Unfortunately, pulling up multiple tools, each built for a monolithic world, doesn’t help pinpoint the problem.

Modern CPUs are complex beasts with billions of transistors. This complexity in hardware brings indeterminacy even in simple software algorithms. Let’s benchmark a simple list traversal. Does the average node access latency correspond to say, a CPU cache latency? Let’s test it! Here we benchmark access latency for lists with a different number of nodes. All the lists are contiguous in memory, traversed sequentially, and have a 4 KB padding between the next pointers.

For large digital enterprises Microsoft Azure and private cloud offering Azure Stack Hub have emerged as the strategic cloud platforms of choice for many organizations. Azure offers an open and flexible platform on which to quickly build, deploy and manage applications at scale.

We recently made a couple of updates to our licensing structure based on feedback from users and partners. These changes are applicable to the Professional Edition of Applications Manager. Here is a quick summary of the updates.

The NiCE Domino Management Pack is an enterprise-ready Microsoft SCOM add-on for advanced HCL Domino monitoring. It supports Domino system and application administrators in centralized Domino health and performance monitoring to improve user experience and business results. The Management Pack provides clear and precise performance indicators and timely alerts enriched by pinpointing problem identification and troubleshooting information.