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The Do’s and Don’ts of Marketing in a Crisis

In March 2020, I was in London meeting with customers, partners and teammates and upon my return to the Bay Area, organizations were preparing for what was believed to be a brief l…

Choose to Challenge: Elevating Women in Tech in 2021

04/05/21 Well, we made it—we’ve officially hit the one-year mark of the pandemic. I’m not sure if that deserves applause, a good cry, or a trophy…maybe all the above? Having tiptoe…

Reopening incidents

This FireHydrant update introduces the ability to reopen incidents directly from the web UI and run commands from the Slack help menu, improving incident management workflow. It al…

How to Be the Hero (Company) They Need AND Want (To Work At)

04/02/21 If you’re like most companies, you made many changes to your business throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. You may have adopted new tools, implemented new processes, or compl…

Consolidate Knowledge Base Articles from Multiple Departments in 5 Steps

04/01/21 After adopting foundational practices of knowledge management many organizations aim to expand this practice outside of IT. While comprehensive knowledge management is an …

Secure by Design: Securing the Supply Chain

03/31/21 The recent SUNBURST cyberattack reveals new threats to the supply chains fueling today’s businesses. SolarWinds and FireEye have raised the alarm for leaders everywhere to…

SQL Server Problems? Try These Tips First

03/31/21 When SQL Server is having performance issues, giving you error messages, or just running slowly, you need to figure out the root cause of the problem before making any cha…

Collect Amazon CloudWatch metrics faster with Datadog using CloudWatch Metric Streams

Please provide me with the article content! I need the text of "How to collect metrics and logs from AWS Fargate workloads" to be able to summarize it for you. Once you paste the…

A lot of little stuff!

This FireHydrant update includes several quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes focused on Slack integration and incident reporting. New features allow for more robust Slack re…

Leveraging APM to Conquer Custom App Management Troubles

03/30/21 Though you might use custom-made apps for many reasons, there’s only one reason you deploy them: off-the-shelf solutions just can’t get the job done. Whenever operations a…

How Eliminating Network Choke Points Can Help the DoD Plan for the Next Wave of the Pandemic

03/29/21 At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, military IT leaders raced to expand network capacity and upgrade infrastructure to ensure it could meet their mission-critical workl…

4 Trends Guiding HR in 2021 and Beyond

It’s hard to believe that it’s been over a year since the onset of the global pandemic. I remember thinking initially that our offices would be shut down for a couple of weeks, may…