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One of the biggest causes of concern to IT departments across the globe is shadow IT. Uncontained, it can cause duplication, unnecessary costs, and compliance issues. To manage and mitigate risks, IT managers need to understand what shadow IT is, its risks, and how organizations can proactively address them. In this regard, IT Asset Management solutions incorporate capabilities that help organizations implement protection measures and build a culture of cybersecurity.

A lot of people, like myself, believe automotive is the most innovative sector today, especially when it comes to software. We are living a critical moment in automotive, where evolution is being pushed onto the market. This rapid software shift is posing challenges that are complicating developers’ progress. Most of these challenges are hardware-related. Gaining access to target development hardware has become an impossible task, the recent global microchip shortage did not help.

Across the business landscape, 2023 has been called the “year of efficiency.” Organizations have had to deliver more growth and innovation, but with tighter budgets and headcount than in prior years. CIOs have needed to build strategies to mitigate the risk of operational failure and protect their brand’s customer experience.

In the first part of our 2023 PromCon recap, we spent OpenObservability Talks exploring the Perses open source project. We found heavy users of open source Grafana who found themselves grappling with issues arising from managing a vast number of dashboards, and the need to manage dashboards as code in a GitOps fashion.

While some businesses operate entirely in the cloud, some still have IT infrastructure they need to house. Others are moving from solely cloud environments to a colocation model. From air conditioning systems to networking facilities, there is a lot that goes into looking after IT infrastructure.

As businesses continue to expand their digital footprints, the demand for efficient and secure data management solutions has never been greater. Colocation, the practice of housing servers and IT infrastructure in third-party data centres, has emerged as an attractive option for enterprises seeking enhanced scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. However, before making a decision on colocation, it is vital to carefully assess the financial aspects associated with this service.

What is ITOM? Information technology operations management (ITOM) is the administration and management of an organization’s hardware, network, applications and technology needs. Generally regarded as the true meaning of “tech support,” it is a service-centric approach to IT infrastructure, IT support operations, IT networking and end user support.

Predictive modeling is the process of using known results to create a statistical model that can be used for predictive analysis, or to forecast future behaviors. It’s a tool within predictive analytics, a field of data mining that tries to answer the question: “What is likely to happen next?”

Wholesale distribution and fulfillment services company, Essendant, saves time and gains agility with Aiven's open source tool.

In today's world, you have almost no chance of succeeding without a solid online presence. Sounds reasonable, but where do you start? A good and user-friendly website would be a perfect first step. Yet, when you begin researching this question, it turns out there are many different content management systems (CMS). Which one is better in your case? To simplify the choice for you, today, we'll compare two of the giants in the industry – Joomla and WordPress.