IBM, popularly known as Big Blue, is one of the most recognized brands in the world. And rightfully so, considering their role in many of our technological innovations over the past century. IBM is among the top 5 vendors for servers and storage devices—commanding a major market share for both the products despite their recent shift of focus towards computing innovations like quantum computing. IBM also makes other hardware devices like routers, switches, printers, load balancers, and firewalls.

In our modern business environment, it's important to stay updated on the status of the cloud services we use daily. Many companies depend on multiple cloud platforms for different aspects of their work, and having a single place to monitor them all can make a big difference. Notion, a popular all-in-one workspace tool, can help improve team communication, while IsDown makes it easy to track cloud vendors' status pages.

Explore our insightful April 2023 report on the performance of top cloud providers. We've carefully assessed the health of these leading services by monitoring outages and issues throughout the month. Using data from their official status pages, we've normalized the information to create a clear and concise overview of their reliability. Find out how your favorite cloud provider stacks up in this essential report.

This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Selecting the tools that best fit your IoT data and workloads at the outset will make your job easier and faster in the long run. Today, Internet of Things (IoT) data or sensor data is all around us. Industry analysts project the number of connected devices worldwide to be a total of 30.9 billion units by 2025, up from 12.7 billion units in 2021.

In today's fast-paced digital world, keeping up with the latest technology advancements is crucial for businesses to stay ahead of the competition. This is especially true in the world of IT infrastructure management, where technology is rapidly evolving and new solutions are being developed to meet the changing needs of businesses.

Automation has been a bit of a buzzword in the IT community in the last few years. Companies around the world are looking for ways to scale and automate routine tasks so they can focus on more strategic initiatives. But “automation” is a word that can cover a lot of workflows and can mean something different to every team. What do we mean when we talk about automation here at LogicMonitor?

The Department of Defense (DoD) is on a mission to modernize its IT environments, radically changing the nature of its network operations (NetOps) in the department. Network availability and performance keep getting more integral to the DoD’s charter, which means downtime isn’t just troublesome, it’s a life-or-death matter. In this post, we’ll outline how key DoD modernization imperatives are affecting NetOps.

With governments doubling down on logging compliance, many public sector organizations have been focusing on optimizing their log management, especially to ensure they retain logs for required periods of time. Logs — though seemingly straightforward — are the backbone of many mission-based use cases and therefore have the potential to accelerate mission success when centrally organized and leveraged strategically. In public sector, logs are instrumental in.

Lightrun enhances its enterprise-grade platform with the addition of RBAC support to ensure that only authorized users have access to sensitive information and resources as they troubleshoot their live applications. By using Lightrun’s RBAC solution, organizations can create a centralized system for managing user permissions and access rights, making it easier to enforce security policies and prevent security breaches.