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Navigating Windows 10 End of Support #shorts #patch

Windows 10 end of support is nearing, leading to important discussions about future steps and ongoing support options. Microsoft offers Extended Security Updates for businesses to license critical systems. Many customers seek ways to prolong Windows 10's life while contemplating upgrades to Windows 11. The operational costs for maintaining support involve a flat subscription fee per device, with Ivanti providing support for certain products under this program.

Tech Talk #10 Building a VictoriaMetrics PaaS: Setting up Metrics, Logs, and Traces

From Blueprint to Reality This episode is designed to be a practical, step-by-step guide. We will show you how to leverage the VictoriaMetrics Kubernetes Stack—our "easier button"—to simplify the deployment process and get your components running quickly.

Introducing Obkio's Visual Traceroute Tool

Introducing Obkio's New Visual Traceroute: See Your Network Issues, Not Just Hops After years of evolution, we're launching the most advanced Visual Traceroute we've ever built, now fully integrated into the Obkio app. The Journey: What's New:✓ Fully integrated visual network mapping✓ Historical timeline that actually remembers✓ Correlated with Network Performance and SNMP data✓ No extra setup required✓ See the complete story of network issues, not just individual hops.

From Datadog to Checkly in minutes

Looking to cut your Datadog bill and modernize your monitoring workflow? In this session, Dan Giordano and Giovanni Rago show how to migrate your Datadog synthetic monitors to Checkly in minutes, unlocking Playwright, Monitoring-as-Code, and AI-powered automation. Timestamps: Intro — Why Migrate from Datadog Dan introduces the session, what will be covered, and who it’s for.

Your "Technical Debt" is a LIE! Meet QA Debt.

The REAL reason your system WILL FAIL. We all talk about technical debt, but QA Debt is the silent killer costing companies millions. It's the accumulation of skipped regression checks, outdated test suites, and ignored production data. The result? Unpredictable, catastrophic outages that can sink your business (and your career!). Learn how to identify and pay down your QA Debt before it's too late. It's not about testing more it's about testing SMARTER.

Understand the ROI of BigPanda: Top quantitative and qualitative findings

We published the first report showcasing the business value of the BigPanda platform, based on both quantitative and qualitative feedback from more than 20 enterprise customers. The Business Value of the BigPanda Platform report provides tangible insights into our platform’s impact on business outcomes.

Show me the (meeting) money: How to monitor the real-time costs of a meeting in Grafana

This meeting could’ve been an email. It’s a phrase most of us have said (or at least thought) at some point in our careers. For me, that realization hit years ago while working for a government organization. I’d frequently sit through long, agendaless meetings that seemingly went nowhere. I wasn’t sure why I was there. And because I’m an engineer at heart, I started to wonder: what were these meetings actually costing the organization?