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According to Gartner, by 2023, 60% of enterprises will phase out their VPN in favor of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). In this blog, discover the four key advantages of ZTNA vs VPN. VPN (Virtual Private Network) has been the dominant solution securing remote access for users and has been considered a good solution for almost three decades. VPN benefits included keeping data secure, protecting online privacy, and reducing bandwidth throttling.

Your entire tech stack is likely in the Cloud - so why aren’t your software packages?

Many IT professionals are familiar with the popular metrics and measures of IT operational success. Such metrics as Customer Satisfaction, Average Handle Time and First Contact Resolution are typically memorized by service desk managers and stored for quick reference during planning and other types of meetings. But how do we measure the effectiveness of the processes that support those teams?

It is always big news when governmental organizations are attacked. And they are attacked frequently. Hackers love headlines, which is one reason to go after high profile government targets. But the real reason hackers love governmental organizations is because that’s where the juicy data is. Even small governmental organizations hold confidential and classified information—exactly the secrets state-sponsored groups and other cybercriminals drool over.

There’s a lot to consider when engineering and implementing software, whether as an update patch or a newly-introduced product. End users have certain expectations when introduced to new or updated software—at the top of the list are aesthetics, ease of use, stability, and response time—the last two of which can be significantly improved when you employ application performance management or APM.

Time for a cross over! Today Page it to the Limit host Mandi Walls, DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty joins Julie for a special episode. In this two part episode, Julie and Mandi interview Kolton Andrus, co-founder of Gremlin and Alex Solomon, co-founder of PagerDuty. Each of them share the origins of their respective companies, how they build amazing cultures, and some of the fun anecdotes along the way.

Prometheus is a metrics-based monitoring and alerting stack that is purpose-built for handling metrics generated by dynamic cloud environments such as Kubernetes. Another example target for Prometheus to gather metrics from could be a web app or an API server. As well as its use as an alerting and monitoring stack, Prometheus is also able to perform addition, average metrics over time and add and multiply any time-series data ingested.