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How to Monitor AWS Direct Connect with LogicMonitor

AWS Direct Connect provides a dedicated network connection between on-premises and AWS environments. Such a connection can be more reliable and increase the uptime of your services because you’re unlikely to be impacted by an ISP’s availability issues, as is the case with traditional, internet-based connections. With our most recent release, Direct Connect connections can be automatically discovered and monitored in LogicMonitor.

Sumo Logic's State of the Modern App in the Cloud Report 2017

Sumo Logic's ‘State of Modern Applications in the Cloud’ report provides exclusive data-driven insights, best practices and emerging trends by analyzing technology adoption within the application stack. Key findings surround adoption of Linux in Azure, growth of serverless computing and containers; and a cloud security paradox.

eG Innovations Offers Industry-First, Native Performance Monitoring for Cloud-Driven Citrix Desktop and Application Virtualization

Iselin, NJ – January 3, 2018 - eG Innovations, a leading IT performance management software provider, today announced general availability of its latest product, eG Enterprise 6.3, that breaks important new ground for Citrix-driven organizations. eG Enterprise 6.3 offers the industry’s first full-featured performance monitoring capability for Citrix virtualized desktops and applications managed by a cloud service.

Splunk, Big Data and the Future of Security

Current IT security tools and mindsets are no longer adequate to meet the scope and complexity of today's threats. Internet security has evolved over the last ten years but advanced persistent threats and the sophistication of the malware have fundamentally changed the way security teams must think about these new threats and the tools used for detective controls.

The On-Call Survival Guide

Welcome to the on-call life. Being on-call can be a daunting experience for any new team member. There is only one thing worse than being woken up at 3am to discover that your systems are down - to wake up on your own at 8am and discover that your systems were down for 5 hours and nobody got the alert! With the right approach, a culture of collaboration, infrastructure insight, and the right tools in place, being on-call doesn't have to be so bad.

How ING Bank Does SRE

Janna Brummel and Robin van Zijll, from ING Netherlands, talked at the Velocity conference in London about how poor availability from their internet banking systems prompted the bank to implement an SRE culture. A centralized SRE team was set up in the Netherlands to provide tooling, consulting and education on reliability to product teams (known as BizDevOps squads internally).

ManageEngine: 2017 at a glance

For ManageEngine, 2017 can be largely defined by one of our favorite C.S. Lewis quotes: “You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.” We began the year with a goal; a goal to bring the numerous domains of IT management together. And we began the year with a dream; a dream to simplify IT management, a dream to help IT propel your business forward.