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What To Look For In A Cloud Cost Tool: Must-Haves And Red Flags

When you’re already strapped for time and bogged down by cloud bills that seem higher than they should be, you may not be inclined to devote months to researching the best cloud cost tools. And unless you’ve used a cost tool before, you may have no idea where to start. What happens if you use multiple cloud providers? Is one payment scheme better than another? And what do you do if your company hasn’t stayed on top of tagging?

The Observability Maturity Model Webinar | StackState, TechStrong Research, Ripple X

Based on research and conversations with enterprises from various industries, StackState created the Observability Maturity Model. This model defines the four stages of observability maturity. The ultimate destination is level four, Proactive Observability with AIOps.

Getting Started With Observability on Kubernetes | Webinar with Ricardo Santos and Andreas Prins

Monitoring has traditionally been a way for IT operations to gain insight into the availability and performance of its systems. However, today IT organizations require more than just monitoring. They need a deeper and more precise understanding of what is happening across their IT environment. This is challenging, as infrastructure and applications span multiple environments and are more dynamic, distributed and have to support more ongoing change than ever before.

How to Make Sure You're Prepared for a Software Audit

That big software audit you’ve been dreading? Yeah, it’s coming, it’s real, and it’s sooner than you think. But why, oh why, do we even have to face these in-depth software inspections in the first place? How hard can it be for them to just take your word that every software license on your system is perfectly up-to-date? As you probably know, that’s not how things work with audit management.

ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management wins Digital Innovation Award

I’m excited to announce that ServiceNow® Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) is the winner of the Ventana Research 15th Annual Digital Innovation Awards in the category of Digital Business. The award for Digital Business recognizes a trailblazing vendor that delivers innovation in applications and technologies for work management, as well as numerous other business areas. But it goes beyond that.

Generating Secure Passwords for your Linux Server

Having a strong password is necessary to protect our information from being accessible by others. A strong password should be difficult to be identified, guess or decrypt by the attackers. Mostly, while entering passwords, we will be prompted to enter the upper case and lowercase letters along with numbers and special characters. But thinking of a new password every time is very difficult and most people end up repeating the same password for every website and application they use.

Using OneDrive for Backup: What Businesses Need to Know

Microsoft’s OneDrive has proven itself a reliable platform to store and share files, and considering its ubiquity among Windows users, it’s often a small business owner’s first foray into leveraging the cloud for their operational needs. That familiarity leads many end users to wonder if OneDrive can be more than a file storage and sharing app -- could OneDrive also help me backup and protect my files?