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Docker container security: demystifying FIPS-enabled containers with Ubuntu Pro

In today’s rapidly changing digital environment, the significance of robust Docker container security measures cannot be overstated. Even the containerised layer is subject to compliance standards, which raise security concerns and compliance requirements. Docker container security measures entail safeguarding our lightweight, appliance-type containers –each encapsulating code and its dependencies– from threats and vulnerabilities.

Boosting nurse retention through digital transformation in healthcare

There’s a major disconnect between the promise of digital transformation in clinical care settings and the reality of hospital systems and clinics today. Nurse retention depends on bridging this gap. Many of us remember the first wave of digital transformation in healthcare, where paper and triplicate forms gave way to electronic charting. Although electronic medical records (EMR) systems are remarkable and essential, they don’t provide a complete digital solution for care providers.

Intro to InfluxDB 3.0

We took the leading time series database and rebuilt it from the ground-up to make it better than ever. InfluxDB 3.0 delivers new features and capabilities, significant performance improvements, and native SQL support to expand and extend time series use cases that rely on high-cardinality time series data for observability, real-time analytics, and IoT/IIoT/Operations Technology.

Ask Me Anything: WhatsUp Gold Performance Monitors Webinar

WhatsUp Gold includes three types of monitors: active, passive and performance. Performance monitors are extremely helpful for proactively preventing potential problems, such as disk space running low or memory usage running higher than expected. Watch this webinar to learn best practices for creating and using performance monitors.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Standardizing Telemetry with the BindPlane Observability Pipeline

Adding additional attributes to your telemetry not only provides valuable context to your observability pipeline but also enhances the flexibility and precision of your data operations. Consider, for example, the need to route data from specific geographical locations, like the EU, to a designated destination. With a ‘Location’ attribute added to your logs, you can seamlessly achieve this.

Canonical & Ampere: Building Sustainable, Power-efficient Computing Solutions Together

Canonical's Taiwan General Manager Tony Chiang was invited to join the Ampere event at Computex 2023 and had a great talk with Jeff Wittich, Chief Product Officer of Ampere Computing. Ampere and Canonical have been partnered to build sustainable and power-efficient computing solutions together and we can foresee more opportunities on the way from the cloud to the edge. Watch the video to learn more.

Securing Apache Spark Big Data Operations

Apache Spark is an open source toolkit that helps users develop parallel, distributed data engineering and machine learning applications and run them at scale. In this webinar, Rob Gibbon – product manager, and Massimiliano Gori – senior information security lead, will survey the state of big data security best practices and outline both high level architectures and pragmatic steps that you can take to secure your Spark applications – wherever they may be running.

Track changes to Datadog dashboards and notebooks with version history

Datadog dashboards and notebooks can be powerful tools for troubleshooting, enabling you to analyze telemetry from across your stack with visualizations customized by service owners, data analysts, and engineers. Many organizations also rely on dashboards and notebooks for key business processes, such as generating reports, creating postmortems, and managing SLOs. This makes it important to keep track of any unintended changes that may result from others accessing your content.