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Where is Your Next Release Bottleneck?

A typical modern DevOps pipeline includes eight major stages, and unfortunately, a release bottleneck can appear at any point: These may slow down productivity and limit a company’s ability to progress. This could damage their reputation, especially if a bug fix needs to be immediately deployed into production. This article will cover three key ways using data gathered from your DevOps pipeline can help you find and alleviate bottlenecks in your DevOps pipeline.

10 Elasticsearch Configurations You Have to Get Right

Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed document store and search engine that stores and retrieves data structures. As a distributed tool, Elasticsearch is highly scalable and offers advanced search capabilities. All of this adds up to a tool which can support a multitude of critical business needs and use cases. To follow are ten of the key Elasticsearch configurations are the most critical to get right when setting up and running your instance.

Boosting Monitoring Efficacy for Telecom via Correlation Analysis

In the first and second part of the blog series, we discussed the importance of correlation analysis in root cause analysis in general and in the context of promotional marketing. In a similar vein, in this blog we walk through how to leverage correlation analysis to address challenges in the telecom space.

Who Uses A Network Performance Monitor | Obkio

Network performance monitoring has become a standard practice for modern businesses. Because of that, tools like network performance monitoring software have piqued the interest of users even outside of the IT team. So let’s go over how different employees use a network performance monitor. A network performance monitoring solutions allows IT directors and their teams to essentially do 80% of the work, with 10% of the effort.

Elastic: Financial services fireside chat: Elastic and former PayPal CIO

The financial services sector stands at a potentially industry-defining moment, with Covid-19 having significant impact on the industry. With a better understanding of the impact of COVID-19, Gartner has forecast technology spending in the banking and securities industry to recover in 2021, growing 6.6% globally1. Respected financial analysts are saying that only those that have the ability to create new value, and ultimately new sources of revenue, will see long-term success. Could this be a critical moment for financial services?

Why do businesses need network mapping software?

Networks are rapidly becoming larger and more complex, with numerous different technologies playing into their expansion. Network mapping is increasingly important for network administrators tasked with handling these growing networks. Network mapping provides network admins with a visual map so they can check network performance, the status of connected devices, monitor the network, and analyse networks before initiating troubleshooting efforts.

ITOM basics: Process monitoring

Monitoring the performance of server infrastructure is crucial to any organization. While metrics such as health and availability will sometimes suffice for measuring overall efficiency, getting visibility into more details, such as the underlying processes, tasks, and scheduled jobs, is often crucial for not just identifying a performance problem but also isolating its root cause.

IT security under attack: Why are group memberships so crucial?

Security groups either make or break your IT security. Group memberships are responsible for administrative access in your your network and define access to other privileged resources and data on your domain. Ever wondered how a simple misconfiguration of a group membership could lead to a security incident? This blog elaborates the most common misconfiguration or security loopholes that can cause damage to the sensitive data in your network.