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A Path to Proactive Security Through Automation

The sheer number of cyberattacks launched against organizations every year is massive and growing. If you’re a security analyst working in a SOC or security team, tasked with defending your organization, that means you’re getting bombarded by many more attacks than the recorded numbers above would suggest. These attacks translate into security alerts — fired from your various security tools — that you must investigate and resolve.

Detailed Beginners Guide To NoSQL vs SQL

While SQL has been the big dog since the 70s in terms of database management, NoSQL has really come into its own since the late 2000s. In fact, NoSQL has become a powerful and important tool for data analysis and data scientists. To that end, we wanted to take a look at what NoSQL actually is, what are the benefits over SQL, and what are the different data models.

ASP.NET Performance: 9 Types of Tools You Need to Know!

One of the best things about being a .NET developer is all the amazing ASP.NET performance tools that can make your life easier. This blog post is a list of the various types of ASP.NET performance tools at your disposal for finding and optimizing ASP.NET performance problems. Depending on the task, some of these tools will be much better than the others.

The State of Robotics - January 2021

A new start? 2020 came and went, and in the process, it left a mark in history and our lives that won’t be erased. Together, as a community, we all struggled, we all faced new challenges, we all united and did our best to help each other. We are grateful for the effort of our nurses, doctors, carers, scientific, essential workers, and innovators that have led this fight. We also take a moment to remember those that we have lost and those who have been affected the most.

ServiceNow and Microsoft power virtual agent collaboration on Teams for the new distributed world of work

On-demand collaboration happens fast nowadays. Service agents, from IT, HR and other departments, need to collaborate quickly to resolve employee needs before they become larger issues. Great employee experiences demand end-to-end integration and execution at scale. No longer a nice-to-have, productive collaboration has become essential for business continuity and enterprise resilience, as some workers start to return to the physical workplace.

End Your CMDB Saga with AIOps + Automation

The CMDB has been around for decades, creating heartache and misery for the IT people tasked with maintaining it. Originally implemented to help track and manage ever-changing IT assets, more often than not, the CMDB is outdated the moment the last keystrokes are made. This eBook explores the checkered past of the CMDB and how AIOps and IT automation tools are helping it overcome its bad reputation to usher in a new era where the CMDB can finally deliver on its long-awaited promise.

Elastic: Firechat: Acceleration of ecommerce with former SVP of Digital Transformation at IKEA

The pandemic has accelerated the shift towards a more digital world and triggered changes in online shopping behaviours that are likely to have lasting effects. Probably the best example of this was offered by McKinsey, who showed that in the US the equivalent of 10 years' ecommerce growth happened in around 3 months, and in Europe, according to OECD, retail sales via mail order houses or the internet increased 30% in April 2020 compared to April 2019. Retail was moving online already prepandemic, but the change was gradual. The change became violent, and it's now a "do or die" issue for most companies.

HAProxy: Introduction to HAProxy

Are you new to using the HAProxy? Are you new to load balancing in general? In this webinar, audience members will take their first steps with HAProxy. Come learn the benefits of load balancing for achieving reliable uptime for your websites and applications. Get an understanding of where the software fits in your network. Pose questions during the Q&A session.