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Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm: choosing the best option for you

If you’re reading this post, you may have decided to containerize your applications. That’s great! The next step is to decide which container orchestration platform is best for you: Kubernetes or Docker Swarm. In this post, you’ll learn the key differences between Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, as well as the pros and cons of both approaches.

10 Tips for Increasing Operational Efficiency

Operational efficiency is crucial to the success of your company. Improving efficiency is a combined effort of measuring and refining processes, employees, technology, and financials. The goal is the continual improvement of these aspects to maintain and increase your business’s operational efficiency. Do you want to learn more about enhancing your operational efficiency? Check out StartingPoint, the platform for customer success and service management!

Getting started with Elastic Cloud on AWS

Elastic on Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives you the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, Elastic Security as well as the Elastic Stack. You can quickly and easily search your environment for information, analyze data to observe insights, and protect your technology investment. Elastic Cloud lets you deploy your way, whether as a managed service or with orchestration tools you manage in the cloud.

Common and Disastrous Network Monitoring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

If you run a sizable enterprise, your network is probably sprawling. You also probably have a network management or IT security team on the payroll to handle monitoring. Their job is to check the network for potential security intrusions, make sure resources aren’t overloaded in one area, and otherwise ensure that things run smoothly.

Nexthink Engage: a new look & feel

Nexthink Experience 2020.5, the latest product release, introduced a wide range of exciting new features for our customers—from additional Nexthink Act capabilities to Experience Optimization UX improvement. You can find out more on our product documentation page. But one feature we’re thrilled about and just can’t wait for our customers to discover is the new Nexthink Engage User Interface.

iSeatz - Resolving Performance Issues Faster with Catchpoint

iSeatz, founded in 1999, has evolved from a digital reservation platform for local New Orleans restaurants into a loyalty tech company that integrates travel and lifestyle bookings into point banks for global brands. iSeatz powers one of the top 10 travel platforms in the world, as well as loyalty eCommerce sites for multiple top 5 hotel brands. The iSeatz Oneview Platform handles more than $4 billion and 180 billion loyalty points annually.

2020 State of DevOps Report: The Newest Metric To Make It Into the DevOps Evolution

Every year, I look forward to the release of the annual State of DevOps report (that’s the kind of exciting life I lead!). The evolution and adoption of DevOps in the past decade has been incredible — and this report always helps show what’s the next big thing that high-performing teams are adopting. The 2020 State of DevOps report was just released a couple weeks ago and as usual, it was filled with all kinds of insights.

Onboard your tracing data to Sumo Logic even faster with AWS OpenTelemetry distro (preview)

We at Sumo Logic believe in an open, flexible, community-driven approach to collecting observability data. Those reasons are outlined in one of my recent blogs. In that publication, I share the belief that an application’s observability gains traction from the fact that telemetry signals are designed, composed, and produced by an application developer/vendor in compliance with industry standards, and are not a proprietary, black box component of the monitoring vendor.

Experience Optimization - Virtualization, UX and Insight Upgrades in Latest Release

Since its initial release back in early 2020, Experience Optimization has offered IT teams around the world with a prioritized guided process for proactively managing digital employee experience (DEX) across the enterprise. Since then, it has received continuous upgrades with each product release – new DEX Score dashboards, a modernized interface, additional playbooks, updated metrics or remote working categorization to name a few.