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Digital transformation: Why observability is critical
Observability tooling has become critical on the road to digital transformation. As DevOps and cloud, the key enablers of digital transformation, guide us towards ever more federated and distributed processes and systems, incidents become more unpredictable, and observability is our best chance for assuring availability.
IT professionals have always dealt with change, but never at the speed of our current digital transformation. The humans of DevOps are being asked to learn and implement new technologies at a pace that often outpaces their current skill level.
Here, industry experts Jayne Groll and Helen Beal share their thoughts on why observability is critical for digital transformation.
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4 ways remote leaders can build soft skills
Many IT leaders would agree: Building soft skills – communication, empathy, relationship building, and trust, for example – is far more manageable within the walls of the workplace. It makes watercooler catch-ups more probable, reading non-verbal cues more prominent, and developing the right workplace culture more accessible.
In today’s hybrid and remote work era, however, honing and mastering these essential skills isn’t so simple. “Many of these interactions just don’t happen anymore,” says Charlie Betzig, managing director at Heller Search Associates, a recruiting firm specializing in senior-level technology executives. “Now you have to pursue opportunities to focus on these skills and be more intentional about them.”
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IBM Bolsters Availability, Backup with Latest TRs [Ed: Fails to disclose the IBM sponsorship; conflict hidden]
Nobody wants downtime or data loss, but companies’ appetite for both are on the decline as customers increasingly demand 24/7 service. IBM i shops have a lot of solutions to choose from when it comes to ensuring uptime and avoiding data loss, both of which have been enhanced with the latest round of Tech Refreshes (TRs) from IBM.
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Doing Disaster Recovery Planning Right For Your IBM Power Iron
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Mindshare Committee Quarterly Report- Q2 2022
It’s time for the (overdue) Mindshare Committee’s third Quarterly Report. This post covers activities from the Mindshare Committee and related teams for the months of April, May, and June of 2022. We started off strong with getting these reports together, but as time has gone, it’s gotten a bit more difficult to pull them together and out on time. We are addressing the future of these reports and how we can restructure to make it easier to put them together. As always, we welcome feedback on how we can improve these reports in the related Mindshare ticket.
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Open vSwitch: The revalidator process explained | Red Hat Developer
Open vSwitch (OVS) is a rich implementation of software-defined networking (SDN) L2 switch.