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Make the most of shadow IT: balancing rules and culture

Shadow IT – tech used in an organization that is not administered by that organization’s IT department – accounts for the majority of the cloud tech at most companies. Understandably, the risk this implies might keep a security pro up at night; Gartner estimated in 2016 that by 2020, a third of successful attacks experienced by enterprises will be on their shadow IT resources.

New in Grafana 6.6: Forcing minimum alert evaluation frequency

There has long been a request from administrators to have the ability to enforce a minimum interval between alert rule evaluations. This is useful for restricting unrealistic user-defined alert rules that evaluate too often and create unnecessary load in the backend. @Uepoch took the initiative and made all the necessary modifications for this configuration in Grafana’s backend, and we finally pushed it forward and introduced the feature in Grafana v6.6.

The JFrog Platform

Manage your DevOps pipeline from a single pane of glass. The JFrog Platform provides a universal end-to-end solution that integrates with your ecosystem to orchestrate and optimize all key processes in your CI / CD pipeline. Deliver fearless updates from code to the edge in self-managed, on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

GDPR Compliance Step 1: Data Erasure and Portability

Recently, a StatusGator user on our 30 day free trial contacted us to inquire if StatusGator was GDPR compliant. The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is the European Union’s regulation that grants rights and requirements over personal data. Although we’ve been following the GDPR and its rollout for some time now, we haven’t taken active steps to comply with its requirements. We are based in the United States and don’t actively target European customers.

SquaredUp for Azure version 4.5

We are excited to announce the release of new versions of our two flagship products: SquaredUp for Azure version 4.5 and SquaredUp for SCOM version 4.5. Our product engineering teams have been working hard on the first big update since the launch of SquaredUp for Azure in November 2019, and have added some great new features and improvements based on customer feedback, including these beautiful cost visualizations…

Azure Storage Queue vs Service Bus Queue

There are two types of queuing mechanisms supported by Azure. Storage Queues are part of the Azure Storage infrastructure, feature a simple REST-based GET/PUT/PEEK interface, providing reliable, persistent messaging within and between services. Service Bus Queues are part of a broader Azure messaging infrastructure that supports queuing as well as publish/subscribe mechanism, and more advanced integration patterns.

BYOD, Secure Messaging and HIPAA Compliance

Nine in 10 hospitals have already made or are making significant investments in smartphones. However, with the emergence of this trend, the threat of non-secure messaging has been on the rise. Our latest eBook discusses the potential risks of this rising trend and possible solutions to remain HIPAA-compliant, all while streamlining clinical communications and operations. Learn how your organization can practice safe and secure messaging in order to enhance the healthcare experience today.

3 Reasons Why Machine Learning Anomaly Detection is Critical for eCommerce

Do you still find yourself visually monitoring dashboards for anomalies? That leaves catching revenue-related issues to chance. It’s become humanly impossible to catch incidents on streaming data. This is why many eCommerce and data-driven companies have adopted automated anomaly detection.