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Webinar: Platform Engineering 3.0-Practical Guidance for the AI Era

Platform Engineering is evolving fast. From the early days of CI/CD automation to today’s self-service platforms, we’re entering a new era: AI-enhanced infrastructure management.‍ In this 40-minute thought leadership session, you’ll gain practical, actionable guidance on how to prepare your team for Platform Engineering 3.0—where AI-driven insights, automated governance, and IDE-native workflows accelerate delivery without sacrificing control.

Civo AI: Turnkey Privacy, Design & Solving Real Problems

Josh Mesout, Civo’s Chief Innovation Officer, takes the stage to ask the question every UK leader is facing: how do we keep pace with the AI explosion while retaining full data sovereignty? Josh walks through relaxAI – a privacy‑first, turn‑key AI solution that ships as a plug‑and‑play box, runs on the latest NVIDIA B200 hardware, and keeps every byte inside the UK. He also demonstrates the dramatic cost advantage, up to 90 % cheaper than the big‑name models , and shows how a single query can spin into a research‑grade analyst report in seconds.

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.

Why we brought hardware-optimized GenAI inference to Ubuntu

On October 23rd, we announced the beta availability of silicon-optimized AI models in Ubuntu. Developers can locally install DeepSeek R1 and Qwen 2.5 VL with a single command, benefiting from maximized hardware performance and automated dependency management. Application developers can access the local API of a quantized generative AI (GenAI) model with runtime optimizations for efficient performance on their CPU, GPU, or NPU.

Android COSU: Unlocking Efficiency for Business Device Management

Struggling to lock down your Android fleet? This video breaks down Android COSU (Corporate-Owned, Single-Use) mode! Learn what COSU is, why industries like retail, healthcare, and logistics use dedicated devices (kiosks, tracking terminals, etc.), and how Kiosk Mode makes it all happen. We dive into the key features powered by UEM/MDM solutions—from App Management and Device Restrictions to essential Security Features. If you need to manage a fleet of single-purpose Android devices reliably, this overview is for you!

Cortex and Sonar Announce Partnership to Drive Code Quality and Security at Scale

At Cortex, our mission is to empower engineering organizations to ship reliable, secure, and efficient software, faster. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a formalized partnership with Sonar, the leader in code quality and security. For years, Sonar has been one of the most popular integrations in Cortex. Teams rely on Sonar’s deep code insights to identify vulnerabilities, ensure coverage, and raise the bar for clean, secure code.

Running Ansible Playbooks from Puppet Edge

When thinking about imperative infrastructure commands and Day 0 tasks for provisioning infrastructure, Ansible is an oft-mentioned tool that has been popular among practitioners for its easy YAML syntax and agentless architecture. You might have used Ansible to get your infrastructure started or for other “one-and-done” infrastructure automation scenarios.

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

“Free" cloud credits, they sound like a gift, but they often come with hidden costs and an agenda: lock-in. The illusion of a cost-saving measure can quickly become a vendor-specific trap, forcing costly migrations or leaving your business overpaying for cloud services. This issue, which the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) estimates contributes to £430M of annual over-payments in the UK alone, is what we call the "cloud credit trap.".

FinOps for Hybrid IT: Extending Visibility Beyond the Cloud

Controlling IT spend used to mean managing cloud invoices. Today, it’s far more complex. Modern enterprises run workloads across multiple platforms — cloud, virtualized, and on-premises — each with its own cost structures and dependencies. That’s why FinOps for hybrid IT has become essential. Extending FinOps principles beyond cloud services enables organizations to see how every part of the infrastructure contributes to cost, efficiency, and business value.

Sidecar or Agent for OpenTelemetry: How to Decide

Getting telemetry out of a distributed system isn’t the hard part. Getting it out cleanly, without noise, drop-offs, or odd performance side-effects — that’s where things get interesting. Before you worry about processors or storage costs, you need a clear plan for where the OTel Collector should run. Most teams narrow this down to two options: a sidecar that sits next to each service, or a node-level agent that handles data for everything running on the node. Both patterns are solid.