While deploying updates in large-scale production environments, it can be easy to overlook minor issues that may later turn out to be the cause of major infrastructure problems. To ensure these large deployments are safely rolled out to production, they can be staged in one subset of your environment and then another; for example, once an update is deployed to a subset, it is monitored to make sure everything is fine and then moved to the next subset.

Back in 2008 when we began our journey, cloud computing was still relatively new. Though the term had a lot of buzz around it, organizations only considered the cloud as a place to experiment, not as a viable alternative to run production workloads. Now, the cloud has become the go-to strategy for enterprises and startups alike to deliver their digital business.

It was indeed an eventful year for us. With launching a slew of new capabilities, attending more than 23 global events, and conducting 12 seminars in multiple cities, the year 2018 was a blast. This year has also made us one of the firsts in the monitoring industry to introduce AI-driven Azure monitoring, along with many other significant enhancements.

A good DevOps strategy stresses the importance of communication and collaboration between development and operations teams. But these two teams often have conflicting priorities, which can hamper the DevOps experience. Modern chat-based team collaboration tools, such as Microsoft Teams, address this very problem in a simple yet intelligent way. Here are three ways you can use Microsoft Teams to improve your DevOps experience.

As you may already know, our Guidance Report not only inspects your AWS account using best practice recommendation checks, but it also finds avenues to improve performance, reliability, and savings so you can deploy resources with confidence. Today, I'm excited to announce that we've introduced some enhancements to make the Guidance Report even more helpful. So let's get straight to it.

At Site24x7, we know how cumbersome it can be to manually track devices as your network grows. What you need is a network monitoring tool that has an automatic discovery and mapping feature that tracks new devices in your network. With network admins like you in mind, we made developing Layer 2 network maps a high priority. These maps automatically discover a complete network, with each interconnection clearly labeled.