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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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Sustainable IT: Optimize your hybrid-cloud carbon footprint

Dynatrace

How can you reduce the carbon footprint of your hybrid cloud? You might optimize your cooling system or move your data center to a colder region with reduced cooling demands. energy-efficient data centers—cloud providers—achieve values closer to 1.2. Is the solution to just move all workloads to the cloud? A PUE of 1.0

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Microsoft Azure digital transformation: Embracing the power of cloud technology with next-gen observability

Dynatrace

To make this happen, enterprises are shifting an unprecedented volume of workloads onto cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure. The benefits of migrating on-premises workloads to the Cloud become evident quickly. Observability is inherent to any cloud strategy. Thoughtful reinvestment. Observability with AI and automation.

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Best Practices in Cloud Security Monitoring

Scalegrid

What does it take to secure your cloud assets effectively? Cloud security monitoring is key—identifying threats in real-time and mitigating risks before they escalate. This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure.

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Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, 2nd Edition

Brendan Gregg

Eight years ago I wrote _Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud_ (aka the "sysperf" book) on the performance of computing systems, and this year I'm excited to be releasing the second edition. A year ago I announced [BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability]. Which book should you buy?

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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

High Scalability

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. The job of a cloud is to run workloads.

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AWS re:Invent 2021 shines light on cloud-native observability

Dynatrace

Indeed, organizations view IT modernization and cloud computing as intertwined with their business strategy and COVID-19 recovery plans. As a result, reliance on cloud computing for infrastructure and application development has increased during the pandemic era. AWS re:Invent 2021: Modernizing for cloud-native environments.

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