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Knowledge 2020: "Dream" keynote recap

Between now and 2024, businesses are expected to spend more than $7 trillion on digital transformation. There’s a lot at stake with those investments, said ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott, in this week’s “Dream” keynote at Knowledge 2020. “The [companies] today that are more digitally transformed will have a real advantage over their peer groups,” he said. “If you look at results, they’re already gaining market share.”

Rancher Virtual Rodeo

Rancher Virtual Rodeos are free, in-depth online workshops designed to give DevOps and IT teams the hands-on skills they need to deploy and manage Kubernetes everywhere. The content will be delivered by Rancher's technical experts and aim to educate anyone interested in learning how to use containers or Kubernetes. During these virtual hands-on workshops, our technical experts will provide an introduction to Rancher, Docker, and Kubernetes and then walk through the steps for deploying a Kubernetes cluster.

Elastic: Intro to centralized log analytics with the Elastic Stack

In this webinar we'll help you plot a course for your observability journey. We'll go over the basics, show you how to get started using the Elastic Stack for your logs, metrics, and application trace data, and show you how log analytics and observability with the Elastic Stack can benefit you and your business. Join us to see how these three pillars of observability can help you get to the bottom of issues faster and reduce your MTTD/R.

LogicMonitor: Proving the Value of IT | June 17

Wednesday, June 17th 11:00 am BST Do you find it difficult to quantify the value that your IT team is providing to your internal or external customers? Does that limit the budget you're able to get to advance your strategic goals even though they are aligned with the business? We'll explore the ways IT drives value for your organisation and how you can quantify that value for your business partners.

LogicMonitor Best Practices: Intelligent Monitoring at Ted Baker

Join us for a virtual Lunch & Learn where Simon Brealy, Head of Global IT Services at Ted Baker and LogicMonitor's own VP of Strategy, John Rakowski will share the varied ways that Ted Baker use intelligent monitoring to support their day to day business operations. Learn how warehouses run smoothly, remote working is facilitated and stores stay online through a single pane of glass view into their infrastructure.

LogicMonitor: Proving the Value of IT | June 25

Thursday, June 25th 11:00 am AEST Do you find it difficult to quantify the value that your IT team is providing to your internal or external customers? Does it then limit the budget you're able to secure to advance your team's strategic goals, despite being aligned to your business' core objectives? In this webinar, we'll explore the ways that IT drives value for your organisation and how you can quantify that value for your business partners.

GCP monitoring and alerting with Applications Manager

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google, launched in 2008. It is a powerful cloud platform that offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service, and serverless computing environments. Many companies are now using GCP to build, modernize, and scale their businesses. GCP monitoring with Applications Manager Monitoring GCP service instances can be pretty challenging.

Has GitHub Been Down More Since Its Acquisition by Microsoft?

Two years ago, on June 4th of 2018, Microsoft announced its acquisition of GitHub, unicorn darling of the developer tools startup ecosystem, for $7.5B in stock. The announcement unearthed a wide range of opinions and pontifications, ranging from “GitHub is doomed” to “Microsoft is smart”, with many predictions about GitHub’s future. Some thought Microsoft’s growing investments in its cloud offering, Azure, might help GitHub.