Markley Group is a Boston-based data center leader that provides co-location and private cloud services through a three-million square foot data center portfolio. The company was founded in 1991, when there was no such thing as the cloud. Today, many of its customers are experimenting in public cloud but often have workload requirements which are better suited or more affordable running on private infrastructure, according to Patrick Houston, Director of Engineering at Markley Group.

As work from home has ballooned in 2020, virtual methods for communicating with colleagues have become more critical than ever. Same goes for all the useful productivity and collaboration tools at our disposal. The emerging downside is the difficulty of finding needed information among so many tools. Compounding the problem is the tendency for info to get siloed off by department.

Whether you are planning to use Graylog for security and threat hunting, IT Operations analysis and reporting, or any other use case, getting your logs into Graylog is essential. The process of log collection is sometimes a daunting task, especially if you are planning to collect massive amounts of data. But if you take a minute to answer some key questions before you begin, you can transform the log collection task from daunting to smooth sailing. Here we go with the questions...

Deploying Docker images to Kubernetes is a great way to run your application in an easily scalable way. Getting started with your first Kubernetes deployment can be a little daunting if you are new to Docker and Kubernetes, but with a little bit of preparation, your application will be running in no time. In this blog post, we will cover the basic steps needed to build Docker images and deploy them to a Kubernetes cluster.

Mainframe modernization is typically viewed as a multiyear, transformational journey that requires long planning phases and a massive buildout before any returns can be realized.

Splunk has been recognized as a Value Leader in EMA’s latest research, Radar Report: AIOps, A Guide for Investing in Innovation. Vendors were evaluated across three categories, with Splunk listed as a Value Leader in both ‘Incident, Performance, and Availability Management’ and ‘Business Impact and IT-To-Business Alignment’, as well as Strong Value in ‘Change Impact and Capacity Optimization’.

In this blog post series, I’ve explored the relationship between observability and a set of software delivery lifecycle practices that help organizations adopt DevOps practices and change their ways of working from being project centric to product-centric. I started with Site Reliability Engineering, then considered Value Stream Management (VSM) and finish with this post on Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD). Defining Continuous Integration

The OpenTelemetry Collector is a new, vendor-agnostic agent that can receive and send metrics and traces of many formats. It is a powerful tool in a cloud-native observability stack, especially when you have apps using multiple distributed tracing formats, like Zipkin and Jaeger; or, you want to send data to multiple backends like an in-house solution and a vendor. This article will walk you through configuring and deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector for such scenarios.

These release notes describe new features, improvements and fixed issues in Pandora FMS NG 748. They also provide information about upgrades and describe some workarounds for known issues.

The client in consideration is one of the largest engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) companies in India. With projects covering over 14 states in the country, its portfolio of services and offerings is widely diversified. It primarily engages in three forms of businesses – civil construction, road & highway development, and manufacturing.