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4 Important Benefits of Remote Checks with Software Agents

One of the biggest impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the number of employees asked or required to work from home. Whilst the capability to work completely remotely has been available for many years now, some companies have been reticent to take advantage of this due to the managerial and technical difficulties involved in managing remote teams and networks.

Elastic Stack 7.7.0 released

We are pleased to announce the general availability of version 7.7 of the Elastic Stack. Like most Elastic Stack releases, 7.7 packs quite a punch. But more than the new features, we’re most proud of the team that delivered it. A feature-packed release like this is special during normal times. But it’s extra special today given the uncertain times we are in right now.

Rackspace Boosts IT Operations Management with AIOps

As part of its pledged “fanatical” commitment to the success of its 125,000 customers across the globe, Rackspace optimizes its IT operations to the fullest. That way, this leading MSP ensures the highest quality and reliability of its vast portfolio of IT services across public and private clouds, and dedicated servers. “We support everything from gaming to e-commerce, telecommunications, medical, aviation — you name it.

Virtana Announces New Funding from its Major Investors

San Jose, CA, May 13, 2020 – Virtana, the leader in enterprise hybrid cloud migration and optimization, announced today a new $15 million investment from HighBar Partners and Benhamou Global Ventures. The funding will allow Virtana to help more customers optimize performance, cost, and capacity in on-premises and cloud data centers.

Squared Up: Coffee Break: Citrix Monitoring with GripMatix

You may have heard that Citrix announced EOL for multiple SCOM MPs as of June 2020. What are the alternatives? This month we are joined by Adam Kinniburgh, VP Customer Success at SquaredUp along with Merijn Overgaauw and Marc van der Veer, Citrix specialists and Product Architects at GripMatix, for a Q&A style discussion on Citrix Monitoring.

Sysdig: AWS Security 101: Securing Amazon EKS with Falco & Sysdig

Amazon's Managed Kubernetes Service (EKS) offers organizations flexibility as teams ramp up containerized applications in production. And yet, managing security risk for the workloads running on EKS is still the customer's responsibility. To make your teams as productive as possible, you need to automate and merge security and compliance into the DevOps workflow. In this webinar, we will review how the combination of AWS security controls with open-source and commercial tools from Sysdig can provide comprehensive security for your EKS workloads.

Sysdig: AWS Observability 101: Kubernetes and Prometheus Monitoring with Sysdig

The growth and adoption of Kubernetes for container orchestration and Prometheus for monitoring have made it easier to grow while monitoring your workloads. However, as you scale your AWS environments, your monitoring capability needs to keep pace. Ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting, and security become more difficult without having robust tools to help provide a centralized view of all the various services and applications.

Sysdig: Best Practices to Secure Containers and Accelerate Software Delivery

With Kubernetes, you can seamlessly move containerized applications from development to production but it can be difficult to gain security and performance visibility for the service. Hear LogDNA share why it chose the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform to monitor and secure its containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS).