Category: IDERA

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Javi Cano; Companies in every industry — from apparel to electronics to beauty products to automotive and everything in-between — are competing for the same consumers, but the most successful companies have realized that retention is critical.Studies have shown it’s between 5x and 10x more expensive to acquire a new customer than it is to keep an existing one. In fact, even if you improve your retention by just five percent, you could see an increase in profit of 25 percent to 95 percent.Whether you’re an up-and-coming eCommerce store looking to boost retention or an established ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Carl Caum; A few days ago we released Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise 2.3. I’m so incredibly proud of our team and the work delivered with this release. It’s mind blowing to see these enhancements in place and even more exciting to know that we addressed so much of what our users wanted in such a short amount of time.Aside from the number of enhancements and a super great new feature, spoiler alert, “Message Center”, we’ve dramatically reduced the amount of time it takes to get up and running with Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise ... Read More

Feed: Blog – Veriflow. Author: Brighten Godfrey; Originally published on VMblog’s annual prediction series Taking a broad view across the enterprise, both cloud computing and intent-based networking deployments are still young and many enterprises are just taking the first steps. Looking ahead to 2019, these deployments will mature as they expand and become increasingly complex. On predicting challenges in the cloud: As enterprises become more reliant on cloud, the complexity of these deployments will deepen – involving many virtual private clouds, interconnections and segmentation between components, and hybrid cloud connecting on-premises and multiple public cloud deployments. According to a recent ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: AJ Morris; Tracking pixels. Retargeting pixels. Conversion pixels. Regardless of what you call it, a pixel can help you increase sales and better measure your own marketing efforts. But what is a tracking pixel, how do you install it, and what are some real-world examples of how to use it?What Is a Tracking Pixel?If you’ve ever designed an image for the internet, then you already know what a regular pixel is. Pixels are the unit of measurement for image sizes on the internet.A tracking pixel is a 1×1 pixel graphic that tracks web traffic, site conversions, ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; In the past, enterprise applications for finance, sales, marketing, and operations were built to last. In absence of alternatives, these applications grew and lived for long periods of time. With the advent of SaaS, however, businesses have many best-of-breed applications to choose from. Therefore, it is not uncommon for a business to migrate from one application to another over a short period of time. These transitions may be triggered by evolving needs, usability, lower cost of ownership, or better support. Without careful planning, app migration can be a logistical nightmare. The migration ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; As organizations navigate their digital transformations and embark on adopting Microsoft Azure, one of the biggest challenges they face is ensuring that their new cloud infrastructure is secure.  Many IT leaders and professionals make the mistake of approaching security in the cloud the same way they approached security in a traditional data center. However, in the software-defined world of Microsoft Azure, there is an added wrinkle.  Without a holistic approach to security which includes a view of configuration, you can easily open yourself up to undue risk. First, understand that security in the cloud is ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Tridivesh Sarangi; When GitHub coined the term “ChatOps” several years ago, it originally referred to using chat tools to speed up the development lifecycle. As ChatOps has proven successful in its original application, however, IT organizations have started using it for a wider range of workflows. In fact, 78% of IT teams say it’s easier to collaborate on tickets thanks to chat apps, and 69% say ChatOps has decreased their average time to resolution. Some teams even consider these tools the new employee UI. ChatOps has the power to make long and tedious IT ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Eric Hamilton; You may not have heard, but the internet is running out of space. In fact, it already did. The American Registry for Internet Numbers announced that its pool of free IPv4 addresses had reached zero in 2015, and the African Network Information Centre was among the last regional internet registries to announce IPv4 exhaustion in 2017. The long-forecasted day the internet runs out of addresses has arrived and it marks a paradigm shift in the internet’s evolution. There’s no reason to worry, though, because the collective internet isn’t shutting down. It’s more nuanced than that ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; ExpressVPN and CyberGhost are two of our favorite VPN providers here at Cloudwards.net. They took first and third place, respectively, in our VPN reviews, in addition to being featured in countless guides, including our best VPN providers. CyberGhost’s release of version 7 puts it into the ring for a comparison with ExpressVPN, which has reigned supreme in our rankings for a while. It beat NordVPN by a thin margin in our ExpressVPN vs. NordVPN comparison and pounded PureVPN into a pulp in our PureVPN vs. ExpressVPN bout. Even so, it may have met its match ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Eric Hamilton; You may not have heard, but the internet is running out of space. In fact, it already did. The American Registry for Internet Numbers announced that its pool of free IPv4 addresses had reached zero in 2015, and the African Network Information Centre was among the last regional internet registries to announce IPv4 exhaustion in 2017. The long-forecasted day the internet runs out of addresses has arrived and it marks a paradigm shift in the internet’s evolution. There’s no reason to worry, though, because the collective internet isn’t shutting down. It’s more nuanced than that ... Read More