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When AWS Goes Down: What It Means For Your Cloud Costs

A global outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) did more than knock popular apps offline. It laid bare the cost risks embedded in many cloud architectures. As services fail, the hidden costs of high availability, from redundancy planning to recovery operations, often multiply. For cloud cost leaders, this isn’t an issue of uptime; it’s a visibility and budget-shock issue. It’s a key reminder that architecting for resilience involves difficult trade-offs.

Regain Control and Visibility of All IT Assets Across Your Organization

When you don’t have reliable processes for managing IT assets, you can quickly lose control. Asset inventories lose their accuracy, data across tools like CMDBs and spreadsheets stops matching reality, and no one can say with confidence what equipment is in use, where it’s located, how it’s connected, and whether it’s still needed. For data center professionals, a lack of asset visibility creates real risks.

Why GPUs accelerate AI learning: The power of parallel math

What makes GPUs so crucial for AI workloads? Is it just about raw processing power, or is there more to it? As we explore the world of AI infrastructure, understanding the role of GPUs is essential. Let's dive into the math behind AI. At its core, AI is all about mathematics, and matrix multiplication is a critical component. Whether you're training a model to recognize images or predict outcomes, the data is converted into massive arrays or matrices of numbers.

Secrets We Forgot... Until Automation Saved Us

We All Have That One Secret… That API key that has been sitting in production for ages. The personal access token that was supposed to be rotated 2 months ago. The service key that is about to expire… wait, when does it expire again? Most developers have experienced working with secrets. We create secrets, use them, and promise ourselves that we will rotate them. But somehow, the secret that was supposed to be rotated after 90 days is still standing strong after 6 months. Sounds familiar?

Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 3.2

HAProxy Enterprise 3.2 is a pivotal release that reinforces the product’s identity as both the world’s fastest software load balancer and a sophisticated edge security layer. This release brings next-generation security intelligence, extends its industry-leading performance, and expands the native routing and integration capabilities in HAProxy Enterprise.

How to test the reliability of a Point of Sale (POS) system

Point of Sale (POS) systems are the backbone of any retail store. A single outage can cost retail companies thousands of dollars each minute in lost sales, and even more if the outage happens during peak hours. If the outage goes on too long, it can cause even more costly damage as customers abandon carts and turn to competitors. In an industry where customer loyalty is worth its weight in gold, that brand damage can end up even more costly than the initial lost sales.

Ari Stowe, Resolve COO and Carla Ely of Grokstream speak at Innovate Americas Dallas

At Innovate Americas Dallas, Ari Stowe, Resolve COO and Carla Ely, Grokstream Channel Development Manager joined industry leaders to discuss how AIOps and agentic automation are reshaping IT operations for a Zero Ticket future. In this dynamic session, they explored how AI-driven event correlation, predictive remediation, and autonomous workflows are transforming how enterprises detect, diagnose, and resolve issues before they ever become tickets.

Data Sovereignty in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Kelsey Hightower and Mark Boost

Join Kelsey Hightower and Mark Boost at Civo Navigate London as they discuss sovereignty in the context of AI and cloud computing. The conversation highlights the need for a more nuanced approach to cloud computing, one that balances the benefits of public cloud with the need for control and sovereignty. The discussion emphasizes the importance of open protocols and the role of the community in driving innovation, and notes that the adoption of AI workloads is driving a shift towards more decentralized and sovereign cloud architectures.

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