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Top 10 HIPAA-Compliant Messaging Apps (2025): A Guide to Secure Healthcare Communication

Secure communication in healthcare is no longer optional. With patient data, lab results, and care coordination increasingly handled over mobile and digital channels, hospitals and clinics need tools that keep messages safe and compliant with HIPAA regulations. A HIPAA-compliant messaging app goes beyond standard texting apps, offering encryption, audit trails, and signed Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) to meet the requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule.

Why DEX Scores Must Be Part of Every Total Cost of Ownership Study

Price is not the same as cost. When organizations evaluate new end-user technology investments, whether that’s laptops, operating systems, or management tools the conversation inevitably turns to Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). TCO studies traditionally focus on direct, measurable costs: hardware procurement, software licensing, support contracts, and lifecycle services. But there’s a growing blind spot in these calculations: the employee experience.

How Redgate's Foundry is Shaping the Future of Database Innovation with AI

Learn how Redgate’s Foundry drives AI innovation in database management - from intelligent monitoring and ML-based automation, to smarter SQL optimization. In today’s rapidly evolving database landscape, innovation is essential. With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and automation, database management is undergoing one of its most significant transformations in decades.

Scaling Datadog observability: 1,000 integrations and counting

Integrations have always been central to the Datadog platform, enabling customers to collect the data they need directly from the technologies they use every day. By unifying signals from infrastructure and applications to security and SaaS applications, teams gain both high-level visibility and the ability to drill into the details that matter the most. With more than 1,000 integrations now available, the Datadog ecosystem continues to expand alongside the platforms our customers rely on.

Keep stakeholders informed with Datadog Status Pages

When incidents occur, clear communication can be just as important as fast remediation. Your internal teams need timely updates to stay aligned, and your users want to know what is happening and when they can expect a fix. Without a reliable way to proactively share updates, support teams can get flooded with tickets and customer trust can erode. Datadog Status Pages, now generally available, makes it easy to keep everyone informed through a public or internal web page during outages.

SQL performance improvements: analysing & fixing the slow queries (part 2)

This is part 2 of a 3-part series on SQL performance improvements. A few weeks ago, we massively improved the performance of the dashboard & website by optimizing some of our SQL queries. In this post, we'll dive deeper into the optimisations of queries with indexes.

Announcing Cloud 66 Deploy v3

We’re excited to announce the rollout of Cloud 66 Deploy v3 — a major evolution of our deployment platform built from the ground up for flexibility, modern workloads, and future growth. While Deploy v2 has served many teams well over the years, Deploy v3 brings a fresh architecture and new capabilities designed for today’s cloud-native needs. Here’s what you need to know.

Datadog vs Splunk: A Side-by-Side Comparison [2025]

Datadog and Splunk are both leading tools for monitoring and observability. Each offers a range of features designed to help you understand and manage your data. Datadog provides tools for tracking application performance and analyzing logs in real-time. Splunk, meanwhile, is known for its powerful log analysis and search capabilities. In this post, we will compare Datadog and Splunk on important aspects like APM, log management, search capabilities, and more.

Zoom Troubleshooting Performance and Connection Issues: The Complete Guide

In an era of remote work and virtual meetings, Zoom has emerged as a lifeline, connecting people across distances and facilitating seamless collaboration. However, like any technological tool, it's not without its fair share of challenges. From occasional performance hiccups to frustrating connection issues, navigating the world of Zoom can sometimes be a daunting task.