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The IT Leader Tightrope: Managing Tech and Team in Tandem

As IT professionals transition into leadership roles, the challenge isn't just shifting priorities -- it's managing time, expectations, and impact across two demanding fronts. Balancing hands-on technical work with the responsibilities of managing people, paths of communication, and team performance can leave even the most capable IT leaders feeling stretched thin.

Clinical Mobility in Healthcare with Strategic Mobility Group (SMG3) | Zebra

Explore how Strategic Mobility Group (SMG3) is revolutionizing clinical mobility in healthcare with their EDGE platform, featuring the Zebra HC50. Join Eric Holmes as he showcases how SMG3 streamlines the management of thousands of mobile devices in hospitals, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance for healthcare professionals. Discover their comprehensive solutions, including device configuration, life cycle management, and user interface customization, tailored to the unique needs of hospital units like the NICU and ED.

Monitoring Backstage with OpenTelemetry:Closing the observability blind spot

‘One small step for a man, but a huge leap for developers’ — me, when I realised how to observe my Backstage with OpenTelemetry. Backstage is often the “portal” through which we manage all our other systems, but who watches the watcher? Recently, we gave a KubeCon Talk, highlighting that monitoring Backstage itself is critical. When Backstage isn’t observable, it becomes a blind spot in your infrastructure.

Sigma Specification 2.0: What You Need to Know

Sigma rules have become the security team equivalent of LEGO bricks and systems. With LEGO, people can build whatever they can imagine by connecting different types of bricks. With Sigma Specification 2.0 rules, security teams can create vendor-agnostic detections without being limited by proprietary log formats. In response to the Sigma rules’ popularity, the team that built them updated them in August 2024, giving security teams new capabilities.

Build for the Future, Not Just the Cloud. 5 Trends Shaping App Modernization

Legacy systems now falter against modern requirements like scalability, security, and emerging technologies such as AI, containers, and microservices. In fact, experts project that by 2026, 90% of current applications will need modernization to remain viable, signaling an urgent call for business leaders to respond. While rebuilding from scratch with the latest technology stack might seem appealing, this approach demands significant time and investment.

Why database observability is key to successful cloud data platform adoption

Data is the lifeblood of businesses the world over, from the smallest startup to the largest enterprise. Making sure that it’s available when you need it, secured for authorized use, and recoverable from faults is vital to operating data platforms, no matter where your business is on its cloud journey. This can only be achieved by putting the right data into the hands of the right people, in a timely way, to make the right decisions about how to manage that platform effectively.

Beyond Playbooks: Unleashing Enterprise-Wide Automation with Ansible + PagerDuty Runbook Automation

Playbooks are nice. Results are better. This simple truth highlights a critical challenge in modern enterprises: while technical teams have mastered infrastructure automation with Ansible, they need more than just technical playbooks that can only be used by SMEs—they need comprehensive automation that drives measurable business outcomes.