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In recent weeks, international headlines have been dominated by the Russia-Ukraine war and its potential to escalate into cyberspace due to punishing economic sanctions by the west. On March 21st, 2022, the Biden administration released a statement calling for the public and private sector to “accelerate efforts to lock their digital doors” in light of the Russian cyber threat.

After a year of hard work, Obkio is proud to announce the release of our brand new free Visual Traceroute tool! Learn about the story behind our new tool and how IT pros can leverage Obkio Vision visual traceroute tool to quickly identify and troubleshoot network and Internet problems faster than ever before.

Want to land one of the 20,000 jobs calling for Puppet experience? Or perhaps you already know Puppet but want to advance your skills in order to scale your infrastructure even more quickly and securely? Starting this May, we’re making it easier than ever for you to learn Puppet with an all-new instructor-led curriculum and the opportunity to take all of our Fundamental Core instructor-led training for free.

When Rolls Royce Power Systems recently needed to improve its operational efficiency within its manufacturing plants, it didn’t expand its use of a legacy process historian or purchase historian connectors to export data to their business intelligence systems. Instead, it decided to go with a modern time series database, InfluxDB. Graphite Energy, another customer we featured in our recent IIoT announcement, also chose InfluxDB over the legacy process historian vendors. Why?

After three months of no activity, this organization breathed life back into its new self-service portal with a creative outreach campaign. “Fast” and “user adoption” rarely go hand in hand. In fact, 83% of senior executives said their biggest challenge with digital transformation was getting their staff to use the software. But that doesn’t mean we have to accept this as the status quo.

Software users have spoken, confirming the power of ServiceNow’s innovative low-code and no-code development platform. We’re delighted that G2 has recognized ServiceNow® App Engine as a Leader in: These rankings, driven entirely by software users, consider customer satisfaction and scale according to market share, vendor size, and social impact.

A month and a half ago we released ValidKube, our first OS project that fused the capabilities of three other popular OS tools (kubeval, kubectl-neat and trivy) in a single easy-to-use microsite. Using the microsite, any user could ensure the security and hygiene of their K8s YAML, with just a few clicks of the button, pretty much on the fly. ValidKube was born out of a straightforward concept and we were happy to see its user-friendly approach resonate almost immediately.

A year ago, we launched the Orchestration center capability in Freshservice. At that time, little did we know that it would turn into a vital driver of customer delight with over 40 apps in just one year! With new third-party applications joining the Apps Marketplace almost every month, we are set to address an expanding range of business needs with an extensible solution that perfectly integrates with the organization’s ecosystem.

One of the most challenging things when writing about DevOps and ITIL is finding the perfect phrases to define both of them. They not only mean different things to different people and organizations but are also implemented & used very differently. Let’s glance through their definitions first.