Overprovisioning: Definition, Causes, Solutions

Overprovisioning is the practice of allocating more resources than typically necessary for workloads, systems, applications, or series to function properly. Its purpose is to ensure that systems remain reliable and performant even under peak loads or unexpected surges in demand and to provide a buffer against potential failures or bottlenecks. While overprovisioning can offer benefits in terms of performance and reliability, it often comes at the cost of increased expenses and potential resource inefficiencies. Find out more about overprovisioning in this post from Wisdom Ekpotu on Acceldata’s blog.

Data Swamp: How to Identify and Fix It

A data swamp is an unmanaged, inconsistent, and disorganized collection of raw data that’s difficult to access and analyze. It’s a repository of structureless data that has gone awry and is costly and inefficient.Data swamps are usually deteriorating, making it difficult to access data. Implementing strong data governance policies, regularly cleaning data, and maintaining clear documentation can prevent a data swamp. Learn more about data swamps and how to fix them from Kamaldeen Lawal on Acceldata’s blog.

Data Complexity: A Guide with Examples

Data complexity refers to the intricacies of handling, processing, and understanding data. This concept encapsulates various factors that make data challenging to manage. These factors can include the sheer volume of data, the diverse sources from which data originates, the speed at which data gets generated, and the reliability and accuracy of the data itself. Understanding data complexity is crucial for organizations to leverage their data effectively and efficiently. In this post from Juan Reyes on Acceldata’s blog, you can learn how to measure data complexity and best practices for managing complex data.

Service Level Indicator: A Comprehensive Overview

A Service Level Indicator (SLI) is an important tool for evaluating the performance of a service against benchmarks or metrics used by businesses. By defining the thresholds of acceptable performance standards, these benchmarks enable teams to evaluate the reliability of their services. SLIs also promote high service delivery standards by giving teams access to valuable data, which, in turn, enables them to mitigate any performance issues preemptively. Find out more from Deboshree Banerjee on Acceldata’s blog about types of Service Level Indicators and how to implement them.

IT Environments: What Are They and Which Do You Need?

The IT landscape is rapidly changing, with companies becoming increasingly distributed, cloud-driven, and agile. In order to minimize complexity and ensure operational efficiency, it’s critical to maintain full visibility and control over all your IT environments. Unfortunately, this isn’t an easy task, particularly when considering that most companies now have multiple IT environments with different roles and responsibilities. In this post from Justin Reynolds on Enov8’s blog, we’ll explore what IT environments are, why they matter, and some tips for selecting which ones you need to use to accomplish your business objectives.

Enterprise IT Environment: What It Is and How to Build

IT is the foundation of any digital enterprise. It has a hand in just about every process, from the company’s connected utility systems to the digital applications that customers and employees access daily and everything in between. With this in mind, enterprises today have multiple IT environments with different functions and needs. Keep reading this post from Justin Reynolds on Enov8’s blog to learn about some of the various enterprise IT environments, their uses, and how to define them.

DevSecOps versus Cybersecurity

Both DevSecOps and cybersecurity are gaining a lot of interest and demand in the IT industry. With everything going digital, security has become one of the main focuses of every organization. And DevSecOps and cybersecurity are the supreme practices to achieve high security. Despite having a lot of differences between them, people are confused about where to draw a line between DevSecOps and cybersecurity. This confusion is mostly because cybersecurity is a part of DevSecOps and vice versa. In this post from Omkar Hiremath on Enov8’s blog, we’ll clear up this confusion. We’ll start by defining and understanding DevSecOps versus cybersecurity. And then we’ll look at the common differences between them.

Useful Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools for 2024

Picture a world where building, managing, and sealing complex infrastructure is as straightforward as writing lines of code. Welcome to the domain of infrastructure as code (IaC), where the traditional landscape of infrastructure setup and maintenance gives rise to the efficiency and agility of software development principles. In this post from Gourav Bais on DevZero’s blog, you can get an explanation of how IaC works and why it’s important, and we’ll cover the most widely used IaC tools in the market today.