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Enterprise data centre security solutions: scaling securely for growth and resilience

Securing a data centre requires multiple layers of protection. Physical access controls, surveillance, and network safeguards reinforce one another to prevent disruption. As estates expand and workloads increase, those measures have to scale. If they don’t, gaps appear in both resilience and compliance. A data centre security solution must therefore protect infrastructure day to day while adapting to future requirements. Pulsant delivers this through an integrated framework.

Webinar Recap: 3 Cost Allocation Mistakes FinOps Teams Can Avoid

In a webinar hosted by CloudZero on Oct. 30, 2025, Larry Advey, Director of Cloud Platform and FinOps and a respected voice in the FinOps community, joined Umesh Rao to deliver a practical session on cloud cost allocation. The session, titled Three Allocation Mistakes Most FinOps Teams Make, unpacked hard-earned lessons and offered a guided tour of CloudZero’s new Dimension Studio.

AWS Fargate Alternatives: Comparing Serverless Container Options

Imagine you have an API service composed of multiple microservices. Traffic fluctuates — sometimes light, sometimes spiking. Without Fargate, you’d have to manage EC2 instances, autoscaling, patching, and more. With Fargate, you define each microservice as a task, setting the CPU/memory, container image, network rules, and AWS schedules, and then run them as needed. The result: faster deployment, lower ops overhead, and smooth scaling.

Store and search logs at petabyte scale in your own infrastructure with Datadog CloudPrem

As AI workloads and cloud-native applications expand, organizations are generating more log data than ever. Each service, container, and model inference produces continuous telemetry that must be stored, secured, and analyzed. As telemetry grows more complex, teams must balance full visibility with new retention and residency needs.

Validating chaos experiments with GCP Cloud Monitoring probes

GCP Cloud Monitoring probe let you transform your existing GCP metrics into automated pass/fail validation for chaos experiments, eliminating subjective observation in favor of objective measurement. With flexible authentication options (workload identity or service account keys) and PromQL query support, you can validate infrastructure performance against defined thresholds during controlled failure scenarios.

AWS Outage Shows Why UK Businesses Can't Afford Single-Cloud Dependency

The impact of the AWS outage has reminded many businesses of the risk for businesses that rely heavily on centralised cloud infrastructure, especially when so many essential services are concentrated in a single region. But at the wider, industry level, this is also a warning around the widespread lack of contingency planning for cloud failures. Reactive response must give way to strategically planned disaster recovery protocols that engenders a resilient cloud market.

Decoding cloud credits: Are "free" credits locking you in?

Are "free" cloud credits holding your business back? Join us for an online webinar as we explore the hidden risks associated with cloud credits and the impact they have on businesses. Our speakers, Simon Hansford, Chief Commercial Officer at Civo, and James Marks, Founder of Canopy, will share their knowledge and experience on this critical topic. This webinar is based on our recent whitepaper, which examines the "cloud credit trap" and its far-reaching implications for organizations.