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Details on DISA’s Infrastructure “Hardening” Rules

02/18/20 The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has a set of security regulations to provide a baseline standard for Department of Defense (DoD) networks, systems, and appli…

Assessing Risk – The Key to IT Security — SolarWinds TechPod 023

02/18/20 When it comes to IT security, it can feel overwhelming. What needs securing and at what level? How do you prioritize? But when considering risk, this is very different con…

Introducing DogStatsD Mapper

Please provide me with the article "Introducing JMX custom tagging"! I need the text of the article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content here, and I…

Getting Ready for Your Own Certification Journey

02/17/20 Some folks find a profession early in their life and that’s what they do until they’re old and gray and ready to retire. Other folks find themselves switching careers mid-…

Database 102 – Why Is My Query Slow?

02/14/20 As a database administrator (aka DBA, or Default Blame Acceptor) throughout my career, I’ve worked with a myriad of developers, system administrators, and business users w…

SteelConnect EX SD-WAN Architecture Overview

The holiday season is just over and while I was looking at my kids taking apart their brand new toys—and telling them they probably should not, I remembered that I was actually the…

Q&A: ITIL 4 One Year Later

02/13/20 It’s been roughly one year since the IT service management world was introduced to ITIL® 4 at Pink19. This latest evolution of ITIL provides guidelines to IT pros and serv…

How to monitor Kubernetes audit logs

This article details how to integrate Alcide kAudit logs with Datadog for enhanced Kubernetes security monitoring. By forwarding kAudit data to Datadog, users gain centralized visi…

Portal: Central Management Now “Free” to AppResponse Customers

With the latest release of Portal version 3.3, central management workflows such as managing Host Groups and application definitions are now available to all AppResponse customers …

Monitor email workflows with Datadog Synthetic browser tests

This Datadog article explains how network performance directly impacts user experience (UX) and how to measure that impact. It highlights using Datadog's Synthetic Monitoring to pr…

Becoming Hybrid: The Importance of Requirements

02/11/20 Introduction Much of the dialog surrounding cloud these days seems centered on multi-cloud. Multi-cloud this, multi-cloud that—have we so soon forgotten about the approach…

24×7 Enterprise Apps: Office 365 Performance on Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Home Offices, Part 1

I was standing on a stage in front of an audience of sellers last week sharing a personal experience I recently had using some of Riverbed’s modern application performance technolo…