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Knowing the Value of 'Fast'

Software development (SDLC) value streams aren’t difficult to understand; you correlate all activity in the development process from planning to prod and relate activity to key objectives such as impact on revenue, application quality and user satisfaction. Unfortunately, most organizations approach value streams on an ad-hoc, manual basis. This approach to value streams requires significant effort, is prone to error and creates huge opportunity costs.

Meet the Fastest Forwarder on the Net

I have recently been heads-down working on a large Splunk Cloud PoV (20+ TB / day), and the customer asked if Splunk supported their forwarding technology called Vector. I had never heard of Vector, so I took a note to do further research. I couldn’t find anyone else at Splunk who had seen this technology before, so I embarked on a little research project. What I discovered surprised me—Vector is actually fairly powerful, and cool!

Rancher October 2020 Online Meetup - Streamline Cloud-Native Applications on Kubernetes at any Scale From Core to the Edge with Rancher 2.5

Kubernetes is becoming widely adopted by enterprises around the world, accelerating digital transformation projects and changing infrastructure strategies from the core to the edge. With technology changing so rapidly, how valuable is a Kubernetes management platform like Rancher? And how does Rancher 2.5 change the Kubernetes landscape for large-scale enterprises? Join our virtual launch webinar to celebrate the launch of Rancher 2.5 and hear from our team of experts to learn about.

Splunk: The AIOps Advantage: Advance Your AIOps Approach with Splunk

IT departments are facing new challenges and opportunities to create value daily. For teams with a modern approach to IT, these challenges can be exciting - for those relying on outdated technology, it can be somewhat daunting. Tools and tactics of the past aren't able to keep up with the demands facing IT today, leaving teams struggling to stay afloat. Once again, we're looking to help companies solve these problems through an AIOps approach.

Grafana: Introduction to distributed tracing

Agenda Description Come and learn about the basics of distributed tracing! In this webinar, we will review what tracing is and what questions it can answer, common open source options for tracing, and the basics of deploying Jaeger, a popular tracing system. In the demo, we will take a simple application, instrument it for tracing, and offload those traces to a Jaeger backend. Then we'll run a typical Loki search, retrieve the trace from Jaeger, and view the trace in Grafana.

Grafana: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/ama-session-torkel/?pg=blog&plcmt=body-txt

Join us for a live "ask me anything" (AMA) session with the creator of Grafana, Torkel Ödegaard, who will answer questions submitted by the Grafana community. Do you want to know... After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a form to submit your questions. Ask him anything!

South Africa's GDPR: The POPI Act and it's impact on Desktop Central users

The Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act puts South Africa’s data regulation standards on par with existing data protection laws around the world. It aims to protect personally identifiable information (PII), enforce individuals’ rights to privacy, and provide guidelines for lawfully processing sensitive information and notifying regulators and data holders in the event of a breach.

Monitor AWS GovCloud (US) with Datadog

Public sector organizations face a unique challenge when it comes to the cloud: how can they successfully migrate their operations while maintaining an air-tight, heavily regulated, massively distributed environment? To solve this problem, Amazon created the AWS GovCloud (US), two isolated Regions in the AWS ecosystem that are only accessible to US customers who meet strict security and compliance standards.