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How To Improve MS Team's Poor Call Quality across the Enterprise with Nexthink

Microsoft Teams is one of the most widely used collaboration tools today. Entire enterprises rely on MS Teams for cross-functional communication, project management, and productivity. If Teams has issues, entire projects can get derailed, and business objectives could be at risk. This places pressure on IT teams to proactively measure and manage the performance of MS Teams, to ensure issues don’t prohibit employee productivity.

Developer environments should be cattle, not pets

Cattle, not pets is a DevOps phrase referring to servers that are disposable and automatically replaced (cattle) as opposed to indispensable and manually managed (pets). Local development environments should be treated the same way, and your tooling should make that as easy as possible. Here, I’ll walk through an example from one of my first projects at incident.io, where I reset my local environment a few times to keep us moving quickly.

Reduce time to detect with AppDynamics Cloud Log Analytics

How machine learning in AppDynamics Cloud accelerates log analysis and reduces mean time to detect. Site recovery engineers (SREs) need to investigate unknown problems reported in production. The common approach is to search and filter log files to find the root cause, and we all know how painful it is to sift through log contents. It’s like finding a needle in a haystack. A machine learning approach is essential to assist SREs to quickly identify the root cause.

5 Tools for Managing a Network from a Remote Location

If you’re responsible for overseeing a network infrastructure, but you’re not always on-site to complete tasks and tackle issues in person, you need the right tools to empower you in your admin efforts. There’s a diverse array of resources out there which will enhance your network management capabilities, even when you’re working remotely. Here are just a few examples of must-have apps for you and your team in this context.

Five Free Tools to Monitor Microsoft Teams Performance

Microsoft Teams has become a popular platform for remote communication and collaboration, especially since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. As more and more businesses rely on Microsoft Teams to communicate and work together, it’s crucial to ensure that the platform is performing optimally and to measure and improve Microsoft Teams performance. Fortunately, there are free tools available to help you monitor the performance of Microsoft Teams.

Spying on Your Network with AWS Network Monitoring

Are you tired of feeling like you're in the dark when it comes to your network? Do you want to know what your data is up to when you're not looking? Well, put on your spy gear, because we're about to show you how to spy on your network with AWS Network Monitoring! Forget about traditional monitoring methods that leave you feeling overwhelmed and under-informed.

How to Cut Through SIEM Vendor Nonsense

If you’re in need of new SIEM tooling, it can be more complicated than ever to separate what’s real and what’s spin. Yes, Logz.io is a SIEM vendor. But we have people in our organization with years of cybersecurity experience, and they wanted to share thoughts on how best to address the current market. Our own Matt Hines and Eric Thomas recently hosted a webinar running through what to look out for titled: Keep it SIEM-ple: Debunking Vendor Nonsense. Watch the replay below.

The Five Sources of Microsoft Teams Call Quality Issues

Microsoft Teams call quality issues can stem from a lot of places. People often jump to blame Microsoft when they’re having a call or video breakup. But, the reality is that while this does happen, more often than not it’s an external factor to the Microsoft service itself. To give you some insight into where your Teams problems come from we put together this easy primer on the five most common sources of Teams call quality issues.

How to Test Your Network Latency : Ensuring a Smooth Connection

In today's fast-paced business environment, reliable and efficient network connectivity is crucial to the success of any organization. Slow or inconsistent connections can disrupt operations, cause delays, and negatively impact productivity. One of the key factors that can affect the performance of your network is latency, or the delay between the sending and receiving of data.

How to Choose the Right Database in 2023

Databases are often the biggest performance bottleneck in an application. They are also hard to migrate from once being used in production, so making the right choice for your application’s database is crucial. A big part of making the right decision is knowing what your options are. The database landscape has been changing rapidly in the past few years, so this article will try to simplify things for you by going over the following topics.