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Why Internet Performance Monitoring is the new frontier in a distributed world

CIO

Applications are no longer standalone entities but are now intricate collections of services, APIs, and distributed applications across various cloud environments. APM primarily uses synthetic agents in the cloud for cloud-to-cloud monitoring, effective for application optimization but inadequate for assessing real user experiences.

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. The nationwide outage affected phone and internet service for about 12.2 The impact was profound. Not just a domestic issue.

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Shells Review – Best Personal Cloud Computer

The Crazy Programmer

Cloud technology is the new normal for tech-savvy people who consider themselves Digital Nomads. With the rise in a shift towards cloud technology, especially IT people, have changed the way they work. Shells is one such platform for hosting a Virtual Desktop/ Computer on the cloud. Cloud Security. The best part!

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How Zero Trust is supposed to look

CIO

Endlessly extending hub-and-spoke networks to more remote users, branch offices, and cloud apps increases risk, harms the user experience, and is prohibitively complex and expensive. Sometimes it is described as a specific capability or yet another appliance (either hardware or virtual). A workload is any specific service (e.g.,

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Sharing Responsibility for Data Security in the Cloud

CIO

As organizations shape the contours of a secure edge-to-cloud strategy, it’s important to align with partners that prioritize both cybersecurity and risk management, with clear boundaries of shared responsibility. But outsourcing operational risk is untenable, given the criticality of data-first modernization to overall enterprise success.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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How Cloud Technology is Shaping The Future of Healthcare Industry

OTS Solutions

Cloud Solutions for Healthcare Industry: Cloud Computing has come a long way. But since then, Cloud solutions for healthcare have evolved into something far more complex. This infrastructure comprises a scalable and reliable network that can be accessed from any location with the help of an internet connection.