Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Companies, like most things, rarely grow in a straight line. Plants will take root where they can, and send shoots where they can to get the most sunlight, even if there are obstacles in the way. But vines and branches aren’t known for their efficient pathing, which can make a tangled mess of the whole plant. So get a good sun hat and some pruning shears ready; you’ll need them today! The difference between organic and structured growth is one of purpose and planning.

‍Financial companies have lots of assets that are valuable and these assets such as laptops, mobiles etc. contain crucial information that is crucial for business continuity and for maintaining SLAs and TATs. Not too surprisingly, even financial sector entities such as banking institutions, lending services, brokerage firms face several issues due to mismanagement of assets. As a result, they suffer from asset misplacement, asset theft, decreased productivity, and unknown asset movement.

Microsoft's Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are the two most popular cloud providers today. They both offer a variety of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. In addition, you'll find products covering multiple computing areas, such as compute, storage, analytics, and networking. You can also deploy AWS or Azure services in the cloud, on-premises, or as a hybrid setup.

One of my initial surprises upon joining Catchpoint about five months ago was to do with how much confusion there is in the observability market. Every single vendor has almost the same message around ensuring a great digital experience for your customers or employees or both. Of course, these experiences are critical to get right, but for the most part many of these solutions, at best, help to ensure that sites are live and available, and that they are reachable by some users.

Aiven now offers Grafana® 9 as a managed service. Let’s take a look at how we’re bringing it to you and what the key improvements are.

We don’t know what the future holds. We never have and never will. But we can plan for the future based on assumptions and the insights provided by trusted industry sources. Bearing that in mind, we asked 11 IT professionals what they thought were the top IT skills in demand not for 2023 but 2025. Why, you may be asking yourself. Well, because we wanted to get a more midterm picture of what IT and IT service management (ITSM) industry authorities believe is in store for the next few years.

As a busy executive, taking time to attend an event and listen to sessions is a luxury. And yet, I know that many of my best breakthrough ideas on how to lead my teams have come from taking those moments to tune into new ideas. The challenge is figuring out where the hidden nuggets of wisdom are buried in a mountain of content.

Netdata just launched a Pandas collector. Pandas is a de-facto standard in reading and processing most types of structured data in Python so if you have some csv/json/xml data, either locally or via some HTTP endpoint, containing metrics you’d like to monitor, chances are you can now easily do this by leveraging the Pandas collector without having to develop your own custom collector as you might have in the past.

Kubernetes has broken down barriers as the cornerstone of cloud-native application infrastructure in recent years. In addition, cloud vendors offer flexibility, speedy operations, high availability, SLAs (service-level agreement) that guarantee your service availability, and a large catalog of embedded services. But as organizations mature in their Kubernetes journey, monitoring and optimizing costs is the next stage in their cloud-native transformation.

As a developer, I love the versatility of Python. Over the years I have used Python for so many different use cases: game development, APIs, IoT, machine learning, and web development. It can scale tall applications in a single bound and take on any challenge faster than you can pip install flask. Something you learn very quickly in the world of app development is to build everything for scale.