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6 Best Azure FinOps Tools for Cost Optimization

FinOps is an evolving concept increasingly practiced in cloud computing organizations to manage and optimize their infrastructure cost. It requires team collaboration among Finance, Engineering and IT Operations to gain a deep understanding of the expenditure, take financial accountability, and make informed decisions to maximize the business performance.

Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe?

From the science fiction fantasies of the mid-20th century to today's reality, AI's journey has been a blend of innovation and apprehension. As we contemplate the future of AI, it’s interesting to look back at the early days of AI, how far it’s come and what we might yet expect. AI has the potential to be of huge benefit but could be disruptive in the wrong hands, particularly in the realm of cybersecurity. A Brief History and Development of AI.

Using Cisco Meraki Solution for SD WAN? ScienceLogic Was Built for That.

Since its acquisition by Cisco in 2012, Meraki has taken off as one of the most valuable tools for simplifying networking in the cloud era. Organizations using Meraki to install and configure software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) devices across their IT estates can attest to the fact.

Stream your Google Cloud logs to Datadog with Dataflow

IT environments can produce billions of log events each day from a variety of hosts and applications. Collecting this data can be costly, often resulting in increased network overhead from processing inefficiencies and inconsistent ingestion during major system events. Google Cloud Dataflow is a serverless, fully managed framework that enables you to automate and autoscale data processing.

Prioritize and promote service observability best practices with Service Scorecards

The Datadog Service Catalog consolidates knowledge of your organization’s services and shows you information about their performance, reliability, and ownership in a central location. The Service Catalog now includes Service Scorecards, which inform service owners, SREs, and other stakeholders throughout your organization of any gaps in observability or deviations from reliability best practices.

What is a Pull Request and Why You Need Them

As an engineer, you're probably familiar with version control systems like Git that let you track changes to your codebase. But are you using one of the most useful features of Git pull requests? If not, you're missing out. Pull requests are one of the best ways to collaborate on projects and create better code. In this article, we'll go over the pull request meaning, why you should be using them, and how to create your own pull requests.📑 What is incident management software?

Availability: A Beginner's Guide

Availability is the amount of time a device, service or other piece of IT infrastructure is usable — or if it’s available at all. Because availability, or system availability, identifies whether a system is operating normally and how effectively it can recover from a crash, attack or some other type of failure, availability is considered one of the most essential metrics in information technology management. It is a constant concern.

Unveiling the Synergy: SharePoint Online with Azure AD

In the modern digital workspace, collaboration and security are paramount. Microsoft has been at the forefront of providing solutions that enhance these aspects of organizational operations. Two such solutions are SharePoint Online and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). SharePoint Online, a cloud-based service, empowers organizations to create, share, and manage documents and content in a collaborative environment.

What is Continuous Delivery? The Benefits of a Well-Tuned Continuous Delivery Software Pipeline

What is continuous delivery? And what are the benefits of the continuous delivery pipeline? This strategy has evolved in a world where platform engineering is on the rise and more and more organizations rely on automation through code to achieve their goals. Times have changed. Most organizations now rely on continuous delivery as an essential part of their development pipelines.