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…
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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…
Monitor Hazelcast with Datadog
This article details how to effectively monitor Hadoop and Spark clusters using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's integrations to collect key metrics from various Hado…
Is SQL Dead, Yet? NoSQL’s Rise in Popularity
07/01/20 Periodically, we hear proclamations that SQL is “dead.” For a long time, people have been commenting on how NoSQL stores are the inevitable grim reaper as far as RDBMS sys…
New AppResponse Adaptive Thresholds Reduces False Positives
Performance monitoring is typically based on comparing measurable values against a set of threshold values. In theory, the IT operations team determines what the thresholds for war…
The Best Way to Make Your Application Faster
07/01/20 There are two easy ways to make your cloud application faster and they’re homonyms; cash being the first and cache being the second. (Sorry, but not sorry, for the dad jok…
Audit Trails Are Critical for Tracking Network Activity
06/30/20 As networks become more distributed and complex, it’s becoming ever more challenging for IT professionals to track all the events happening on their networks. Still, it’s …
Top 4 Reasons to Optimize Your SD-WAN
I often get the question “When should I enable WAN optimization with my SD-WAN?” It’s a good question, especially since it is a common mistake to either conflate the two or view th…
The Next Norm: Work-from-Anywhere Performance Management (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this blog series, The Next Norm: Prepare to Work-from-Anywhere, we reviewed the recent, explosive growth in work-from-home and the transition to the new norm, work-fro…