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Root cause as a service automatically shows what’s cooking in logs for fast resolution
Even though log files are a wealth of information, combing through them is a daunting task when software suffers downtime. Today’s software environment is complicated because it runs numerous services, making observability tools essential. Despite the observability space being a $20-billion market, the cost of downtime still surpasses $100 billion, because most of the tools ...
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Snowflake is not just a data warehouse: TheCUBE analyzes day 1 summit keynote
This year’s three-day Snowflake Summit kicked off Tuesday with a focus on data collaboration. Headlining the day 1 keynote was Snowflake Inc. Chief Executive Officer Frank Slootman, who addressed the company’s market standing, technological advancements and growth plans. TheCUBE was live at the Summit, providing analysis on the Keynote address. A primary takeaway during the ...
Vercel’s front-end infrastructure meets MongoDB’s back end for fast web experiences
With serverless computing being a hot topic, developers are leaning toward this architecture for enhanced scalability, flexibility, performance and innovation. By merging Vercel Inc.’s serverless front-end infrastructure with MongoDB Inc.’s developer data platform, developers avoid dealing with a cold start because they get the best of both worlds, which enhances web performance, according to Guillermo ...
Hitachi and MongoDB bridge the gap between the data universe and end user
It’s ironic that despite data being the backbone of all digital transformations, it has not yet been fully modernized because it still resides in monolithic databases. With the market changing fast, revamping the data architecture has become necessary. The partnership between Hitachi Vantara LLC and MongoDB Inc. renders data fabric capabilities that deliver meaningful insights to ...
Never dig through software logs again: Join theCUBE June 15 for a special broadcast with Zebrium
Whenever a software failure or incident strikes, hunting the root cause becomes a mind-boggling affair, because millions and billions of lines of software and infrastructure log data have to be scrutinized to unearth details of the problem. Not only is this labor-intensive, but costly because the mean time to resolve, or MTTR, can span hours ...
How Silicon Labs rapidly scaled IT infrastructure capacity to meet burst and peak demands
As dynamic fluctuations in workloads happen, the hard question of whether to overbuy or underbuy becomes inevitable. Having an infrastructure that renders flexibility and choice, even during uncertainties, can be a game-changer. Through Dell Technologies Inc. and partner Computacenter US Inc., Silicon Laboratories Inc. is utilizing Dell APEX Flex on Demand to deliver a flexible ...
Cloud-based backup: Veeam and AWS partnership revamps data recovery
The NotPetya malware wrought havoc across the globe about five years ago. The discovery of this encrypting malware underscored the need to have a data backup copy in the cloud for seamless recovery, according to Jeanna James (pictured), global alliance manager at Amazon Web Services Inc. AWS and Veeam Software Corp. are working together to help ...
Veeam uses APIs as the secret sauce for data protection
Predictive analytics plays a pivotal role in bridging the data protection gap based on roaming attacks. By checking the operating system consistency using APIs, snapshots and specific cloud agents, Veeam Software Corp. heightens data protection, according to Danny Allan (pictured), chief technology officer of Veeam. “What we did is we captured a snapshot of the ...
Hudson’s Bay Co. transforms data protection engine during multifaceted cloud journey
Since lifting and shifting to the cloud helps in the short term, rewriting applications to change the operational model is needed for a cloud-native experience in the long term. Having been in existence for 352 years, Hudson’s Bay Co. has progressed by reinventing itself, because innovation is baked into its core DNA, according to Ope ...
Veeam tackles the ransomware challenge with Disaster Recovery Orchestrator
Despite 76% of companies paying ransomware criminals, a third did not recover. This shows that paying the ransom is not a recovery strategy, because bad actors have resorted to using ransomware as a service. The backup repository has been the main target of ransomware, because getting rid of the life preserver enables criminals to sell ...