Windows Guest Licensing: To KMS or Not?
10/20/15 To better combat software piracy, Microsoft introduced License Activation with Windows XP/Server 2003; however, activation was pretty much implied and automatic if you had…
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The Challenges of Network Virtualization Technologies
10/20/15 Network virtualization, software defined network (SDN), and network function virtualization (NFV) have taken the communication industry by storm. They are no longer buzzwo…
How to collect RDS MySQL metrics
Please provide me with the article text! I need the content of "Key metrics for Amazon RDS PostgreSQL monitoring" to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article here,…
Monitoring RDS MySQL performance metrics
This article details how to monitor your Amazon RDS MySQL instances using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's integrations to collect key MySQL metrics like connection c…
Monitor RDS MySQL using Datadog
Please provide me with the article "Monitoring RDS MySQL performance metrics"! I need the text of the article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content h…
How to Prevent a Data Breach from SQL Injection Attacks
10/16/15 The average total cost of a data breach right now is $3.79 million, according to the 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis. Cyber attacks are one of the top reas…
Looking Backward to Look Forward
10/15/15 “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past” -unspecified “wise men” quoted by Niccolò Machiavelli With so many articles out there telling me how SDN will …
How to Explain Virtualization to Newbies
10/15/15 In the world of enterprise architecture, many parts of our daily conversations are taken for granted. We talk about virtualization, vMotion®, Storage vMotion, Replication,…
What If You Can’t Trace End-to-End?
10/15/15 A lot of monitoring systems have a goal of end-to-end tracing, from “click to disk” or something similar. This is usually implemented by adding some kind of tracing inform…
Monitoring: How and Why We Do It
10/14/15 Put simply, we monitor to find and fix problems before our customers and users do, so they’re not tempted to go somewhere else for their purchases, or take our names in va…
Event alerts: another way to trigger notifications
Datadog's Terraform provider v4.0.0 is now available, bringing significant improvements including support for managing Datadog Synthetics tests and increased resource coverage for …
Queueing Theory: Faster Trains Might Make London Underground Slower
10/10/15 Let’s take a look at a great real-world example that effectively illustrates how queuing theory can be unintuitive even in situations that seem simple. A recent BBC report…