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Hunting and Gathering in the Age of COVID

07/10/20 Collecting knowledge is a large part of everyday conversations. Contributing knowledge to a conversation keeps it going and allows individuals to learn new information, de…

The Next Norm: Work-from-Anywhere Application Delivery for Productivity (Part 3)

In Part 1 of this blog series, The Next Norm: Prepare to Work-from-Anywhere, we looked at the recent, explosive growth in work-from-home and the transition to the new norm, work-fr…

4 Ways to Improve Your Change Management Practices

07/09/20 Okay, good. You have a change management practice in place. You know how to define it, its benefits, how to get the process started, and how to measure its success. You al…

Agile Practices: Agility in the Unknown

07/08/20 What Does Agile Mean in Today’s World? Agility requires a certain mentality. One must constantly evaluate and adapt, and we are currently witnessing that on a global scale…

I Can Do That, Dave: Exploring AIOps

07/08/20 The movies are filthy with examples of artificial intelligence. Some, like the first Terminator, are evil. Some, like the Star Wars droids, work for the good guys. And so …

Test on-premise applications with Datadog Synthetic private locations

This Datadog article highlights how Synthetic Monitoring proactively identifies issues impacting user experience *before* real users encounter them. By simulating user behavior acr…

Suggested Cloud Monitoring Strategies for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

07/07/20 From the Cloud First policy established in 2010 to last year’s Cloud Smart update, it’s clear the government is driving federal agencies toward cloud computing. The strate…

Becoming Hybrid: Operating Your Cloud Environment

07/06/20 It’s a day for celebration! Our migration is complete, and our applications are now running in the cloud environment best suited to their needs. The rest of our applicatio…

HIPAA-compliant observability and security for health information systems

The Microsoft Sensitive Data Scanner now uses machine learning to more accurately detect human names within log data, improving data loss prevention (DLP) and compliance efforts. T…

Monitor Apache Ignite with Datadog

This article details how to monitor your Apache Ambari environment using Datadog's integration. It explains how to collect metrics from Ambari, including cluster health, resource u…

Surviving IT in Snap Downturns

07/03/20 The global effect of and challenges to business in 2020 is the very definition of “unprecedented.” While large enterprises enjoy the advantage of scale to redistribute foc…

Change Templates: Your Roadmap for Necessary IT Changes

07/02/20 For some, change is something to look forward to. For others, it may be scary and anxiety-inducing. If the latter describes your organization, it may be time to rethink yo…