Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Kubernetes is increasingly becoming a uniform standard for computing – in Edge, in core and in the cloud. At NTS, we recognize this trend and have been systematically building up competencies for this core technology since 2018. As a technically-oriented business, we regularly validate different Kubernetes platforms and we share the view of many analysts (e.g. Forrester or Gartner and Gartner Hype Cycle Reports) that Rancher Labs ranks among the leading players in this sector.

We who use SCOM know about its extensive monitoring capabilities, but the static nature of the SCOM console is not one of its strong points. You can’t drill down to see the data, or correlate data with other data types or alerts for the same object. To the delight of our customers, SquaredUp allows you to do all that and much more – so that you can get all the detail and insight you need, from the metrics you are already collecting.

There’s a time-tested saying in IT: zero sensors, zero incidents. What goes unmeasured goes unmaintained, unmanaged, and ultimately unprotected. But measurement is no simple thing. What IT teams measure depends on who needs the info and what they need to do with it, so what should be measured? In almost all circumstances, results will have to be filtered, analyzed, and summarized in some fashion.

Microsoft Office is one of the very few software platforms that can claim to be truly timeless. However, even timeless technology could use an upgrade and Microsoft provides this often. If you recently upgraded your system or you intend to do so, you may have asked yourself: what is Microsoft Office 365? Is it worth replacing your old system?

Slack, TikTok, Netflix, Spotify, GitHub, Miro: what do these popular SaaS companies have in common? They are all evangelists of the product-led growth movement. This go-to-market strategy is common for business to consumer (B2C) vendors and means that all major sales, marketing, and support activities are driven by and through the product. This may begin with a free trial or free version of the product, but that’s not the full picture.

In this post, we’re sharing some of the best insights from specialists across a variety of industries to answer: What is downtime & why is downtime so detrimental for businesses? As well as answering this key topic we’ll also cover how businesses can take steps to prevent downtime & understand the underlying causes behind this often costly concern. Downtime is a term used to refer to a period of time in which a system, website or service is unavailable to its users.

SEO, or search engine optimization, has quietly become one of the most essential and powerful tools for promoting a brand or website that has an immediate ROI given that it’s far more cost effective than SEM and/or other paid social media campaigns (though in practice, both SEO + SEM are core part of digital marketing strategies).