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ITRS Group presents ‘The Amazonian Netprobes’, the first of the three part ITRS Cloud Series Blog. In this series our ITRS experts share how we can help you manage and monitor your cloud environment(s) and your environment on premises.

The starting point In February 2018, a 23-year-old trader posted a message on Reddit to WallStreetBets, a forum dedicated to trading. The message was just four words: ‘Should I kill myself?’ The trader, username Lilkanna, did not kill himself and remains active on the site. But he learned a painful lesson about putting all of his eggs in one basket: the prompt for his despair was losing $4m going all-in on an inverse volatility contract, XIV.

Welcome Our new Resources homepage launched March 13th 2019. We are always looking to find new ways to streamline our technical resources so that you can find what you need faster. Over the past year we have launched projects to improve the website search, learning management and many others. As we execute these projects, we know that sometimes you can come upon what looks like an unfamiliar page.

Scalable big data storage of metrics and events Gateway Hub is a key part of ITRS Group’s strategy to build better, smarter, more efficient monitoring to create operational resilience for the always-on enterprise. Available for download now, Gateway Hub will achieve this by addressing a number of key areas for improvement in the Geneos architecture.

What we're hearing today Today, many of our customers are laser focused on supporting their firms during the Brexit process. Whatever way the scenario plays out, it creates uncertainty on the requirements of systems to allow seamless business and customer experience through potentially very high transactional volumes in the capital markets. Not only that, but the challenge to keep them running regardless of an outcome comes into sharp focus.

The risks of technological outages have been drastically underestimated industry-wide. This year, glitches have resulted in financial losses in the millions, mass customer exodus and significant reputational damage to the firms and their executives. But still, outage after outage makes the headlines each week, suggesting the industry is continuing to miscalculate the risks - just as they are set to increase.

This blog looks at leveraging security and control features, encrypted communications between Geneos components and Authentication policy, in conjunction with the Geneos Commands API. Given the power of Geneos commands, and the functionality they enable, locking down access to them is quite important. The Geneos Gateway has a REST API allows programmatic, automatic triggering of Geneos commands, which take remediating action in the monitoring environment. This API allows for some nice integrations and automation.

Customer feedback: more fixes, more enhancements, better documentation Its that time of the year again when we survey our clients. We do this twice a year and it gives us excellent feedback on what you like and what you want us to improve within ITRS Group.