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Building Strategic Success in Inside Account Management | Zebra

Step into the dynamic world of inside account management at Zebra, where cultivating strategic relationships with mid-market accounts is key to success. Meet Zach, a dedicated member of our Inside Sales team in Chicago, Illinois. Join him as he shares his daily experiences and reveals why Zebra is an exceptional place to work. Discover how Zach expertly builds strong connections in the manufacturing vertical while collaborating seamlessly with colleagues in retail and healthcare.

Patch Management Evolution #shorts

Patch Management Evolution Patch management has evolved significantly over the years, starting with early challenges and the introduction of hot fixes for bugs. Eric played a crucial role in addressing security issues, responding to urgent emails about patches. The establishment of Patch Tuesday created a reliable schedule for updates, allowing better planning. The process transitioned from weekly to monthly releases, improving patch quality and minimizing the need for reissues.

Why Healthcare IT Can't Keep Relying on Legacy Monitoring

Supporting every hospital chart, scan, and bedside alert is a web of digital systems—EHRs, lab interfaces, clinical apps, networks, and connected devices—all working in sync or struggling to. When something slips, say, an Epic interface queue backs up and lab results don’t reach the attending physician on time, the consequences aren’t theoretical. That delay might mean a sepsis alert gets missed. A treatment window closes. A patient’s outcome changes.

AI-Powered Monitoring with Checkly

Most monitoring tools weren't built for the AI-first world. By nature, traditional monitoring platforms force you out of your natural coding environment and trap you in clunky web interfaces, brittle configuration panels, and rigid APIs. And sadly, when monitoring providers do offer "AI features," it's usually a chatbot bolted onto their existing UI, being nothing more than a pale imitation of the AI tools you’re reading about every day on Hacker News. All this creates friction.

InfluxDB 3 Core: a complete rewrite designed for speed and simplicity

InfluxDB has been a popular time series database for the better part of a decade, and the latest release represents years of work behind the scenes to address several major feature requests users have been asking for since the earliest days of the time series database.

Best Ways to Find Troublesome Containers and Virtual Machines Using Cycle's Portal

The best problems are the ones you never have to deal with. That's why smart teams catch issues early on, before they impact production. Cycle gives great visibility to spot troublesome workloads, control resource usage, and take action before things go sideways.

Opsgenie is shutting down: Complete guide to alternatives in 2025

Atlassian just pulled the plug on Opsgenie. On December 3, 2024, they announced that Opsgenie will reach end-of-life by April 2027. New sales stopped on June 4, 2025, and if you're using the JSM-bundled version, you'll lose access even sooner—October 2025. Here's the kicker: Atlassian wants you to migrate to their fragmented JSM + Compass combo, which splits your incident management across multiple tools. The reality? Teams are frustrated.