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Optimizing Every Layer: From Cloud to On-Premises

As digital infrastructures become more complex, businesses need an agile, unified platform that spans traditional on-premises systems to modern cloud-native environments. At Virtana, our latest feature updates across Global View, Container Observability, and Infrastructure Observability are designed to empower you to optimize every layer of your IT ecosystem.

Microsoft 365 Backup 2026: What It Covers, What It Costs, and Where the Gaps Are

Protecting your organization’s data within Microsoft 365 is crucial to ensure business continuity, compliance, and resilience against threats like accidental deletions, cyberattacks, and data corruption. Implementing a comprehensive backup strategy safeguards your critical information and facilitates rapid recovery when needed.

An aerial view of your Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins pipeline landscape

Most engineering teams today have a multiplicity of tools to meet all of the different challenges they face. Some people characterize this as a problem and describe it as 'tool sprawl'. At SquaredUp, we just see it as a fact of life that no tool can excel at every job and engineers will want to choose the best tool for each task. Many companies have multiple toolchains spread across different teams and departments.
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Monitoring for operations of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition

"Do I need to monitor SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition?" is the question many SAP customers are asking right now as projects are going live. As an SaaS product run by SAP, customers get access only through a public website, and SAP are responsible for the availability of that website and the hardware resources. The places where traditional monitoring focussed either aren't relevant, aren't visible, or superficially aren't the customer's problem anymore. Does that mean there is no need to monitor anything in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition?

Global View: Optimizing Every Layer with Innovative New Capabilities for On-Premise

Managing a hybrid IT environment is more complex than ever, requiring real-time visibility, automation, and intelligent cost control across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Virtana’s latest innovations help organizations streamline operations, optimize costs, and enhance security, validating that every layer of IT—whether in the cloud or on-prem—operates at peak efficiency.

Container Observability: Optimizing Every Layer with Innovative New Capabilities for Kubernetes & Windows

Managing containerized workloads and Windows environments requires more than just basic monitoring—it demands deep observability to prevent performance bottlenecks, optimize costs, and accelerate troubleshooting. Virtana’s latest Container Observability enhancements provide IT teams with greater control, visibility, and analytics across Kubernetes and Windows-based workloads.

Infrastructure Observability: Optimizing Every Layer with Innovative New Capabilities

Modern IT environments are complex, spanning on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures. Without deep observability at every layer, performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and troubleshooting challenges can drain resources and impact business outcomes. Virtana’s latest Infrastructure Observability enhancements are designed to eliminate blind spots, automate performance tuning, and simplify IT operations.

AI On A Budget: Low-Cost Strategies For Running AI In The Cloud

AI costs can spiral out of control before you know it. One day you’re building an AI feature that promises to bring in a solid chunk of revenue for the company. The next day you’re obsessing over an astronomically high cloud bill that will significantly eat into your profits — or consume them entirely. To help you solve this problem, we brought in Jeremy Daly, Director of Research (and AI cost management guru) at CloudZero.

LightMesh + AWS: Secure Subnet Discovery and Unified IPAM at Scale

LightMesh now integrates with AWS, providing automated discovery and unified management of your cloud networking resources. This powerful integration eliminates fragmented visibility across VPCs and regions, giving you real-time insights into your entire AWS infrastructure through a single, intuitive platform.