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Nothing screams “corporations run the world” quite like Black Friday. A holiday built on shopping, bargain hunting, and tailgating at the mall at five in the morning. There really is nothing quite like Black Friday. And though Internxt loves bashing on the powers that be, we too are offering a wild Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal this year. So to celebrate the shop-till-you-drop shenanigans, we’ve put together a list of the best Black Friday memes on the internet.

The cloud is limitless – a key factor in its appeal – but it also introduces a new set of problems. Enterprises are looking to innovate at rapid speed, to achieve business outcomes, and deliver superior user experiences. But the majority of enterprises need to continue to maintain complex hybrid infrastructures as well as diversify their cloud strategies across multi-cloud environments.

Canonical is excited to partner with AWS and feature on this week’s episode of AWS on Air. Watch us live on September 16, at 12pm PT. As the publisher of the Linux distribution Ubuntu, Canonical support, secure, and manage Ubuntu infrastructure and devices for thousands of businesses. Ubuntu runs from cloud to edge. It is the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud including AWS, and the preferred workstation experience for builders all over the world!

Today’s blog comes from Kevin Howell, CEO of UK partner – Howell Technology Group (HTG) about their work supplying secure cloud technologies and remote working solutions to government and regulated customers. HTG are a trusted industry leader in the UK, who offer virtual desktops, managed services and efficient modern workplace solutions. Their solutions are also available with the UK Government’s Digital Market place under the G-Cloud Framework.

In this post, we’ll look at how to host the OpenTelemetry Collector in Azure Container Apps. There are a few gotchas with how it’s deployed, so hopefully this will stop you from hitting the same issues. If you don’t care about the details and just want to run a script, I’ve created one here.

We're excited to announce that starting with the new Splunk Cloud Product 9.0.2205 release, it's easier to create, manage and use private apps. Although Splunk is great by itself, we can all agree that the real value of Splunk comes from all the applications that Developers, SplunkTrust folks and Splunkers build.

Last week (7th September 2022) I spotted a post from EUC and Cloud Veteran Marius Sandu alerting his professional and social media networks to an outage of Azure Front Door that in turn meant a significant number of Azure services and resources were unavailable.