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Event Management in IT: The Role of Automation for a Seamless Experience

In today’s fast-paced digital world, event management plays a critical role in keeping IT and network systems running smoothly. It involves monitoring and handling events generated by servers, applications, networks, and security tools to ensure a stable, secure, and reliable IT environment. However, the complexity and volume of events in modern IT ecosystems make manual management increasingly challenging.

New ServiceNow Integration (Beta) Powers More Efficient ITSM

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of our new ServiceNow integration in beta — designed to give engineers even more control to manage and automate incidents in FireHydrant while seamlessly keeping the rest of the organization aligned in ServiceNow.

AWS re:Invent 2024: Innovation, AI, and the power of seamless data movement

From developers and tech leaders to start-ups and students, over 60,000 attendees from around the world gathered in Las Vegas for the 13th AWS re:Invent. This year’s event showcased continuing innovation from AWS, offered an abundance of content for every type of attendee, plus a sprawling Expo Hall hosting hundreds of AWS partners and industry vendors.

How Sustainable Hosting Solutions Can Improve Your Company's Carbon Footprint

In an era where sustainability has become a critical focus for businesses and consumers alike, companies are increasingly seeking ways to minimize their environmental impact. One often overlooked area is web hosting-a service integral to nearly every modern business. Organizations can significantly reduce their carbon footprint by adopting sustainable hosting solutions while demonstrating their commitment to environmental responsibility. For companies seeking eco-friendly hosting options, British web hosting services are setting a benchmark in sustainable technology.

Spark or Hadoop: the best choice for big data teams?

I always find the Olympics to be an unusual experience. I’m hardly an athletics fanatic, yet I can’t help but get swept up in the spirit of the competition. When the Olympics took place in Paris last summer, I suddenly began rooting for my country in sports I barely knew existed. I would spend random Thursday nights glued to the TV, cheering on athletes as they skillfully let fly arrows, disks, hammers and so on.

What is SBOM? Software bill of materials explained

In the wake of EU drafted legislation and US executive orders, a software bill of materials (SBOM) has gone from a nice-to-have to a fundamental piece of software documentation. In this article, we’ll examine what an SBOM is, what information it must include, and the approaches that developers and manufacturers alike should consider as they start building their SBOM.

Connectivity and Cloud: Navigating AI's Blind Spots in 2025

Mike Hoy, CTO, Pulsant looks ahead to the next 12 months, identifying some of the challenges organisations are likely to face in delivering AI projects, and highlighting the importance of a resilient, connected infrastructure in meeting these. As AI proofs of concept evolve over the next 12–18 months, they will lay the groundwork for advances in technology.

Introducing Kubex: Tackling the Kubernetes Blind Spot

Kubernetes (K8s) has transformed cloud-native infrastructure, enabling enterprises to build scalable, agile environments. Yet, alongside its benefits, Kubernetes introduces a significant blind spot —a rapidly growing part of cloud budgets that has become more and more difficult to optimize. Excess spend is common, and is caused by incorrectly specified container resources, stranding tremendous amounts of resources while at the same time introducing significant operational risk.

2024 DORA Report Takeaways

The 2024 edition of DORA Report (previously State of DevOps) is here As you know, each year Sleuth partners with Google Cloud and DORA Institute to conduct an industry benchmark study on what an elite Engineering team looks like. This year, in addition to the core topic of DORA metrics, the report also focuses on relevant contemporary topics, like DevEx. Special guest: Derek DeBellis, Lead Researcher of the 2024 report!