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Every business wants to make sure their business applications remain live and perform well to enhance customer experience. With evolving customer expectations and competitive environment, businesses also have to update their applications and introduce new features more frequently than ever before. This has led most businesses to adopt continuous integration and continuous delivery practices. Application…

Organizations rely on multiple servers such as core app servers, database servers, web servers, and caching servers for daily communication and critical business operations. Servers are the most crucial elements of the IT infrastructure as they’re mainly used to manage resources in a network. A server failure can lead to costly server crashes with a…

Today, most IT administrators are dealing with a wide range of legacy equipment, physical and virtual servers, applications, and cloud-based resources. The logs generated by these systems and applications help administrators ensure their distributed environment maintains high availability. These logs are also helpful for meeting numerous security and compliance requirements. As organizations grow, however, their…

In this cloud-computing era, where every IT component is modularized, distributed yet interconnected, it becomes essential to know what’s going on in the back end of the infrastructure. All modern organizations gather and store log data to track activity occurring in applications, servers, computer systems, cloud services, and so on. With hundreds and thousands of…

Today, DevOps teams support innovation and routine operations in modern organizations. These teams rely on an evolving set of tools and platforms to enhance their continuous integration and continuous delivery practices. Docker is one such platform, which helps teams deliver their applications reliably in multi-cloud setups. As Docker is built on industry-standard, open-source technologies, the…

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft directory service with a common interface for organizing and maintaining an organization’s information. Like a phone directory storing information like contact names, addresses, and phone numbers, AD includes information such as users, accounts, domain names, and resources (printers, computers, and more) within a network. System administrators maintain these directories…

Most organizations maintain a LAN for its fast data transfer, low cost, and security benefits. However, establishing a local network is time-consuming for system administrators and has limitations. They’re not designed for long distances, and remote access can be an issue for different teams. A cloud drive, on the other hand, is a perfect solution…

Organizations heavily rely on storage devices for business and performance-critical metrics, including websites, digital applications, and file servers. Both smaller and larger-enterprise networks use NAS storage and multiple SAN devices to store crucial data. Any untimely outage, if overlooked, can lead to data loss, network slowdowns, and even network failure. Therefore, it’s crucial to monitor…

Typically, enterprise data centers consist of lots of servers, most of which sit idle as the workload is directed to only a few servers on the network. This results in wastage of expensive resources, hardware, power, maintenance, and cooling requirements. Virtualization helps increase resource usage by partitioning a physical server into multiple virtual servers. These…

A hard drive is made up of several sensitive and complex components working on the scale of nanometers. While manufacturers try to make these devices resilient, sometimes they fail to work as expected. They may get physical damage or undergo a mechanical shock. Regular usage of hard drive causes wear and tear leading to disk…