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Now FedRAMP Ready, Sumo Logic Empowers Public Organizations

As we continue to adopt a digital-first mentality globally, there’s a massive shift to the cloud happening within federal agencies. While the sector has traditionally been slower to adopt new technologies, these agencies are understanding the urgent need to transition from legacy on-premise systems to more scalable and secure, cloud-based architectures.

Integrate Akamai with Datadog to monitor CDN performance

Akamai is a leading provider of content delivery network solutions around the world, handling many millions of HTTP requests per second. By Akamai’s estimates, its CDN platform delivers 15 to 30 percent of global web traffic. If you’re using Akamai to accelerate and protect the delivery of content to your users, we are pleased to announce that you can now use Datadog to monitor the utilization and performance of your CDN.

Using Network Visibility to Grow Your MSP Business

Selling cloud services is an opportunity to shift clients away from on-premises infrastructure towards a more scalable network architecture. But if you’re moving clients to the cloud, you better make sure they can always access the cloud. That means having deep visibility and control over network infrastructure so you can provide proactive service and keep clients connected. But not all network equipment or cloud solutions offer the same level of visibility.

Get Network Device Warranty & Software Status Automatically with Auvik & Cisco

Conducting a network assessment is a great way to fully understand a new client's network, and to provide tangible proof when you recommend improvements—like upgrading out-of-date infrastructure. Many steps in the assessment process can be automated, but sourcing warranty and patch information about each network device has traditionally involved MSPs looking up serial numbers one by one.

Prometheus and Docker: Monitoring Your Environment

Coming back from Monitorama, I had a chance to sit back and start playing with some tools to see how they worked. Prometheus is a pretty ubiquitous tool in the monitoring space, it's pretty easy to spin up, and is open-source. Having a very active community of engaged developers means finding help articles or guides is easy. We are also going to use Grafana to build nicer looking graphs based on API queries from Prometheus.

SaneBox: Using Artificial Intelligence for Smarter Email Services

We all struggle with overloaded emails and are always on the lookout for methods to ease this burden. To make a clutter-free inbox a reality, help comes in the form of Sanebox. This is a software program made especially to clean up and effectively organize the client’s inbox. This simple software program works by taking a complete overview of your email.