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Virtualization technology is being widely adopted thanks to the flexibility, agility, reliability and ease of administration it offers. At the same time, any IT technology – hardware or software – is only as good as its maintenance and upkeep, and VMware virtualization is no different.

Back in the late 1980s, the UK government’s Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) developed a set of recommendations to govern the way private and public sector organizations manage IT with a set of standard practices.

As Stackery’s Ecosystems Manager, a huge part of my work revolves around meeting new people and developing relationships with them for the good of our company. I love this work not only because I’m passionate about people and serverless, but also because it keeps my curiosity muscle strong. To be good at my job, I need to do right by my personal connection to curiosity and learning— but sometimes I get off-track.

This is the fourth and final article of a series on the CloudReady dashboards and visualizations. With a better understanding of the various widgets available, you can build custom dashboards that cover the end user experience for any application delivered to a branch office or location.

Azure Functions is Microsoft’s solution to serverless computing. While it actually does run on servers, the key difference here is that you aren’t responsible for maintaining the function hosting environment. This is both a blessing and a curse.

Where does your company want to be in one year? Five years? Ten years? And what does this growth mean for your technology stack? These questions play on repeat for any growing organization.

A record high of 162,414 cars per day cross the Golden Gate bridge, in wind, rain, and countless other environmental factors (don’t say earthquakes!) that compound stress on it. An Atlassian instance is a lot like a bridge. Users access each instance hundreds and thousands of times a day, amid conditions that include the size of the instance itself (with its load of comments, pages, repos, etc.), the apps you’ve added, API calls, and much more.