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June 13, Vancouver, OpenInfra Summit – Canonical today announced the extension of its commercial OpenStack offering to small-scale cloud environments with a new project Sunbeam. The project is 100% open source and is available free-of-charge. Early adopters can also opt-in for comprehensive security coverage and full commercial support under the Ubuntu Pro + Support subscriptions once they complete the deployment themselves.

Everything you want to know about high cardinality in cloud native environments and how to manage it effectively.

Snapshot quiescing, a technique employed in the world of virtualization, stands as a pivotal concept to grasp for anyone involved in IT operations. In particular, when working with VMware, understanding snapshot quiescing can significantly streamline your backup and restore operations. It’s a crucial process that ensures the data on a Virtual Machine (VM) is in a consistent state when a snapshot is taken.

From applications in telecommunications to edge cloud and industrial digital twins, experimenting with real-time capabilities in cloud technologies is a trend in the industry. Applications for the edge often have an additional requirement as they interact with real-time systems: they need to run deterministically. It means that time constraints their execution and interaction within the system.

The modern factory’s relationship with data is experiencing a major change. Data now shapes the future rather than only telling the story of the past. The language inside the factory sounds like higher Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) as the result of a shift from preventive to predictive maintenance. It could also look like expanding business goals to a new market based on impactful data-driven decisions. A change in purpose requires an update in technology.

When you first onboard to a monitoring and security platform, it can be difficult to know where to start. Which services should you monitor? What thresholds should you set? How often should you alert your team, and where’s the best starting point for investigations?