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Achieving Operation Excellence in the Mining Industry

As one of the oldest and most established industries in the world, mining remains a vital means for producing many everyday materials. However, as with any industry that must compete on an increasingly global stage, success requires nothing less than operational excellence. Here we'll explore some key strategies to help ensure your mine runs at maximum efficiency and effectiveness, reducing costs while boosting productivity and profitability.

IT Governance vs. IT Management: What's the Difference?

There's so much confusion around IT governance right now that sometimes it's complex to differentiate it from other parts of an organization. One of the areas that always raises questions is IT management. Are they the same? Do they somehow overlap? Let's oppose IT governance vs. IT management and find out! In this article, we'll cover their definitions, differences, and why you need both. Let's get started!

Reinforcing Networks: Advancing Resiliency and Redundancy Techniques

Resiliency is a network’s ability to recover and maintain its performance despite failures or disruptions, and redundancy is the duplication of critical components or functions to ensure continuous operation in case of failure. But how do the two concepts interact? Is doubling up on capacity and devices always needed to keep the service levels up? The truth is, designing a network that can withstand the test of time, traffic, and potential disasters is a challenging feat.

Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 2.7 & HAProxy ALOHA 15

HAProxy Enterprise 2.7 and HAProxy ALOHA 15 are now available. Users of our enterprise-class software load balancer and hardware/virtual load balancer appliance who upgrade to the latest versions will benefit from all the features announced in the community version, HAProxy 2.7, plus the ability to serve applications using HTTP/3 over QUIC. If you want to start the upgrade procedure straight away, go to the upgrade instructions for HAProxy Enterprise and HAProxy ALOHA.

Dealing with Unknown Threats

The cybersecurity threat landscape facing every organization is constantly changing. Cybercriminals are always looking for new vulnerabilities to exploit or changing existing attack methods to bypass protections. They also go to great lengths to hide their activities within regular network traffic and application activity. The attack surface that organizations present to attackers is also in a constant state of flux.

Agent-based versus agentless data collection: what's the difference?

In the quest for a secure and reliable method to monitor their infrastructure, enterprises and service providers often find themselves exploring various agent-based and agentless solutions. Grasping the nuances between these two approaches is essential to select a monitoring service that aligns with your unique business requirements.