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From SLA to XLA: Rethinking End-User KPIs

The 1980s was a period that set the ball rolling for many aspects of the technology that we are using today. Personal computers, such as the BBC Micro and similar devices, introduced the world in general to the power and potential of IT – a capability that has grown massively in sophistication and capability, to the point that it has become fundamental to many aspects of life at work and at home.

Hybrid Cloud: Send Alerts from Enterprise Alert to a SIGNL4 Team

With our on-premise alerting software Enterprise Alert you can deeply integrate into your IT infrastructure and other backend systems as well as communication infrastructure. For some alerting scenarios it might be useful to notify teams independently from your own communications environment or infrastructure. In this case our new app-based alerting service SIGNL4 can be a great asset. SIGNL4 is a plug&play cloud solution.

Rancher: k3s: The Lightweight Kubernetes Distribution Built for the Edge

Kubernetes is pushing out of the data center into stores, networks and factories. DevOps teams are excited about Kubernetes because it provides predictable operations and a cloud-like provisioning experience on just about any infrastructure. For the last year Rancher Labs has been working with organizations to create a lightweight implementation of Kubernetes that is easy to operate and can run on x86 and ARM infrastructure without using more than 512 MB of memory.

Tigera: Zero Trust Security: Supporting a CARTA approach with Continuous Monitoring

Learn how to support a continuous adaptive risk and trust assessment (CARTA) approach leveraging accurate Kubernetes flow logs. 5-tuple logging is commonly used to monitor and detect anomalies and produces unreliable data that cannot accurately identify anomalies nor prove enforcement of security policies. Network flow logs include workload identity and other metadata that help continuously monitor activities within Kubernetes clusters.

PagerDuty: How Sky Betting is Driving Real-Time Operations Transformation

For many organizations, DevOps transformation is now a business imperative as it drives widely understood advantages in innovation, agility, and empowerment. However, many organizations struggle to implement and realize the true benefits of DevOps transformation due to challenges with culture, processes, and tooling-in fact, as many as 78% of organizations fail to get DevOps right.

Introducing k3s: The Lightweight Kubernetes Distribution Built for the Edge

Today Rancher Labs is announcing a new open source project, k3s, which is a lightweight, easy to install Kubernetes distribution geared towards resource-constrained environments and low touch operations. Some use cases in which k3s really shines are edge, ARM, IoT, and CI. The work for k3s started as a component of Rio, an experimental project we started last year.