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Meet Stackdriver Logging, a gregarious individual who loves large-scale data and is openly friendly to structured and unstructured data alike. Although they grew up at Google, Stackdriver Logging welcomes data from any cloud or even on-prem. Logging has many close friends, including Monitoring, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and all the other Google Cloud services that integrate with them. However, recently, they are looking for a deeper relationship to find insight.

On January 30, Ivanti announced its new product and solution focus areas, programs, and strategies—all in all in an effort to ensure customer success. Read the official press release here. As part of this re-affirmed commitment to customers, Ivanti formed an Independent Business Unit that consists of a dedicated set of Ivanti products and services with the single purpose of pleasing its customers through providing long term value.

A report just came out from Ivanti which revealed that 43% of IT professionals are still tracking IT assets in spreadsheets. It also illuminated the fact that nearly one third of IT professionals are spending several hours per week supporting out-of-warranty assets. Let's take a closer look at some of the survey's findings, which were also mentioned in this blog.

It’s Friday, and a holiday (of sorts) heading into a long weekend (for some). We’re going to start with something light, and then get a little heavier. If you like what you read here, please do share with your colleagues and pals! Share the love...of work. You may not care for the Hallmark holiday of Valentine’s Day, but why not celebrate all sorts of love on this day? Let’s start with work, where great things can happen with the right attitude.

While the Capital One breach may have been jaw-dropping in its sheer scale, there are best practice lessons to be learned in its remediation response, says Nick Carstensen, technical product evangelist at Graylog.

In terms of cyber-attack vectors, spoofing is exactly what it sounds like. This term embraces a series of techniques aimed at masquerading an attacker or electronic device as someone or something else to gain the victim’s confidence. Whether it is used to deceive a user or to manipulate a computer system, this multi-pronged phenomenon is often at the core of social engineering hoaxes in general and phishing campaigns in particular.

Technology is helping enterprises simplify process and supercharge the everyday. A good employee experience (EX) is built on efficient ways of working, freeing employees from repetitive tasks to create a more rewarding workday – one that is spent on interesting, high-value projects. But for business leaders looking to deliver the experiences that employees now demand, where should they start? The short answer: good EX thrives on well-designed automation.

Many promising sprinters face a mental roadblock as they develop. Physical training and repetition propel them faster and faster, yet despite pushing their body harder each month, most still plateau. It often takes a wise coach to switch a sprinter’s mindset from simply moving quickly to moving their body with purpose, using better technique, and taking longer strides. Finance teams face a similar predicament with their monthly financial close process.