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Datadog shares in August tumbled 17% in one session after the provider of cloud-based observability solutions reduced its 2023 revenue outlook.

The venture is expected to strengthen Cisco’s software business and accelerate its transformation to more recurring revenue.

Coming together to create one of the biggest software companies in the market...

Observability and security vendor Dynatrace has been approved as a supplier to the New Zealand All-of-Government Marketplace. The Marketplace simplifi...

Cisco has a reputation of building the company through acquisitions, but it has tended to stay away from the really huge ones. With Splunk, it gets an observability platform that could fit nicely into its security business to help customers better understand security threats, while also helping parse oodles of log data to resolve other problems like helping understand system failures or troubleshoot myriad issues across a broad array of enterprise systems. Under the terms of the deal, Cisco is...

Cisco acquires Splunk for $28B, its largest deal to date, aiming to pivot towards software and boost cybersecurity. The move adds $4B in annual recurring revenue.

It is no secret that I am not a fan of logs; I’ve baited (rapala in Finnish) discussion in our work chat with things like: If you’re writing log statements, you’re doing it wrong. This is a pretty incendiary statement, and while there has been some good discussion after, I figured it was time to write down why I think logs are bad, why tracing should be used instead, and how we get from one to the other.

Digitisation has elevated how healthcare services and patient experiences are delivered, but not without significant cost. Today's healthcare IT te...

Interested in open-source observability? Learn about instrumenting your applications for customized business metrics in cloud-native environments.

Cloud is a more variegated & diversified way of using technology, so we have to make sure we’re miscellaneous but never farraginous (a confused farrago) in our approach.