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How Security Engineers Use Observability Pipelines

In data management, numerous roles rely on and regularly use telemetry data. The security engineer is one of these roles. Security engineers are the vigilant sentries, working diligently to identify and address vulnerabilities in the software applications and systems we use and enjoy today. Whether it’s by building an entirely new system or applying current best practices to enhance an existing one, security engineers ensure that your systems and data are always protected.

Data Gravity in Cloud Networks: Achieving Escape Velocity

In an ideal world, organizations can establish a single, citadel-like data center that accumulates data and hosts their applications and all associated services, all while enjoying a customer base that is also geographically close. As this data grows in mass and gravity, it’s okay because all the new services, applications, and customers will continue to be just as close to the data. This is the “have your cake and eat it too” scenario for a scaling business’s IT.

Goliath Technologies Launches Intelligent Cloud Monitoring Solution

Philadelphia, PA – February 8, 2023 –Goliath Technologies, a leader in end-user experience monitoring and troubleshooting software, has today announced the launch of Goliath Cloud Monitor – a new cloud monitoring platform that provides centralized monitoring of AWS and Azure cloud environments from a single location. With 75% of organizations worldwide implementing a multi-cloud strategy, the market demand for effective cloud monitoring solutions has never been greater.

What is WMI Provider Host?

Windows Instrument Management (WMI) Provider Host — or WmiPrvSE.exe — is a legitimate and essential component for keeping your computer’s various applications and systems running effectively. This process is part of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Microsoft built WMI management tools into each Windows version starting with NT 3.1.

Democratizing Machine Data & Logs: How Infor saves millions by leveraging Sumo Logic's data-tiering

Infor developed a decentralized governance model for managing the vast Sumo landscape. A landscape with thousands of users, tens of thousands of Collectors, petabytes of log ingestion. By democratizing log management, we implemented a decentralized governance model for our Sumo account. Consequently,, we succeeded in doubling our log ingestion year-over-year, while reducing our log ingestion cost by more than 50%.

How Are You Making Storage Placement Decisions-and Does It Matter?

According to Virtana’s recent State of Hybrid Cloud Storage survey, most organizations have a little over half of their storage in the cloud, keeping the rest on premises. But how are they deciding what storage goes where? Is there such a thing as a wrong—or even just sub-optimal—storage placement decision? We dug into the data to answer these questions.