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Micro-Outages Uncovered: Exploring the Real Cost of Downtime for Your Business

Unplanned downtime is an eventuality every business tries to avoid but will face. In today’s digitally interconnected world, outages can be particularly damaging, especially if the business is unprepared. Not only can outages cause employee frustration and anger customers, leading to numerous intangible costs like lower satisfaction hurting a company’s reputation, but the loss of employee productivity caused by unplanned downtime can significantly affect the bottom line.

Why ChatOps Integration Is What Your ITSM Needs

In recent years, teams have drastically changed how they communicate and collaborate. With the rise of physical distancing and remote work, many businesses have found email slow and burdensome. Instead, they use chat clients like Microsoft Teams or Slack to effortlessly share information and solve problems without needing more online calls.

OpenTelemetry Security: How To Keep Telemetry Data Safe

Organizations implementing observability in their digital services architecture should be familiar with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) framework. While our OTEL guide provides an in-depth examination of the benefits of this open-source framework, the potential security challenges with OpenTelemetry warrant a separate guide.

Hello cron job monitoring & alerts, goodbye silent failures

Papertrail has had the ability to alert on searches that match events for years, but what about when they don’t? When a cron job, backup, or other recurring job doesn’t run, it’s not easy to notice the absence of an expected message. But now, Papertrail can do the noticing for you with inactivity alerts. Papertrail inactivity alerts allow you to setup notifications when searches don’t match events.

Why Your Observability Strategy Needs Security Observability

An observability strategy helps many businesses support the stability and performance of complex, distributed IT environments. Since you may already be tracking the three pillars of observability—metrics, logs, and traces—why shouldn’t you also use the endless stream of telemetry data to identify security risks and vulnerabilities, just as you use it to monitor and stabilize operations? Even the best-planned observability strategy is incomplete without the fourth pillar of security.

What's an IP Address Conflict, and How Do You Fix It?

When you’re just starting as a network engineer, an IP address conflict can be a difficult issue to resolve. In this post, we’ll look at what an IP address conflict is and why it occurs. Then, we’ll talk about the types of IP address conflicts and the ways to fix them. We’ll also discuss how to detect and prevent IP address conflicts. Detection and prevention can be done best with certain tools, so we’ll learn about the top five tools to use.
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The Government needs to recruit more IT-savvy staff to meet data transformation goals

The people running the U.K. government's digital transformation programmes need to be more tech-savvy if they ever want to hit the ambitious targets set for public sector digital transformation. This is according to a recent report published by the National Audit Office (NAO)-the U.K.'s independent public spending watchdog-which found most digital change decisions in government are made by "generalist leaders who lack the expertise to fully comprehend and tackle digital challenges."

Analyzing the Micro Focus - OpenText Merger: Three Crucial Areas for Success

History is filled with examples of corporate mergers gone wrong. There’s AOL – Time Warner in 2000 and HP – Compaq in 2001, and who can forget when Microsoft didn’t know what to do with all their extra cash and decided to buy Nokia, hoping it would help everyone forget about Windows Phone? As someone involved in more than a few acquisitions, I’ve learned how to tell if a merger will be successful.