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Breach Data Trends: October 2019 to March 2020

05/06/20 Most of us have no idea if our credentials are out in the wild, for bad actors to take and use for malicious intent. Unfortunately, they often are. Since October 8, 2019, …

Solving the Contractor Breach Challenge

05/05/20 According to our Federal Cybersecurity Survey Report from last year, more than half of federal IT pros surveyed say IT security risks are greater with contractors than wit…

Monitor ProxySQL with Datadog

Please provide me with the article content! I need the text of the "PostgreSQL VACUUM processes: How to monitor" article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the articl…

Does Your SD-WAN Pass the Enterprise-Grade Litmus Test?

Are all enterprise SD-WAN solutions created equal? Although a rhetorical question, the answer is a definitive, “No.” That begs the question … “What makes one SD-WAN different from …

Work-From-Home Whiplash

05/04/20 Global pandemic is a helluva way to learn work from home. After 20+ years of working in an office, it’s been a far bigger change than I’d imagined. Especially if you’re ac…

Monitor Windows containers on Google Cloud with Datadog

This article details how to effectively monitor Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters using Datadog. It outlines how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery and pre-built integratio…

Monitor Sidekiq with Datadog

This Datadog article focuses on building effective executive dashboards by prioritizing high-level business metrics over technical details. It emphasizes using clear visualizations…

SolarWinds x Cloud Field Day 7

05/01/20 Cloud Field Day, hosted by Gestalt IT, is an invite-only, live-streamed technical meeting focused on the impact of cloud on enterprise IT. Held over 2-3 days, the event br…

Surviving Through Chaos

05/01/20 We fell asleep in one world and woke up in another. I read somewhere that suddenly, Disney is out of magic, Paris is no longer romantic, New York doesn’t stand up anymore,…

Monitor Confluent Platform with Datadog

This Datadog article details how to effectively monitor your Apache Kafka clusters using Datadog's integration. It covers collecting key metrics like message latency, consumer lag,…

8 Questions to Ask Non-IT Departments About Their Services

04/30/20 IT has goals around restoring service and powering internal operations for employees. As an IT pro, this is well-known to you, but you aren’t the only one who has customer…

Onboarding SteelConnect EX Branches with a Staging Script

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zGajxUImvM[/embedyt] After you’ve deployed a SteelConnect EX SD-WAN headend, common next steps are to onboard branches to the headend, pl…