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54% of European enterprises want long term open source support: how Ubuntu Pro + Support delivers

Europe’s open source ecosystem is at a turning point. The Linux Foundation’s Open Source as Europe’s Strategic Advantage: Trends, Barriers, and Priorities for the European Open Source Community amid Regulatory and Geopolitical Shifts report shows organizations across the continent are broadly adopting open source software (OSS). But adoption alone doesn’t guarantee resilience, innovation, or security.

CFO Reveals: 30% of Your Servers Are Wasting Money RIGHT NOW

In this exclusive interview with Ticker's business news show, Joyda Bianco, CFO of Hyperview, exposes a shocking industry secret: nearly one-third of servers in enterprise data centers are obsolete, unused, or "comatose"—consuming electricity and occupying valuable rack space while contributing absolutely nothing to business operations. That's potentially millions in wasted operational expenses and thousands of tons of unnecessary carbon emissions. But as Bianco explains, this crisis represents your single biggest quick-win for cost reduction and sustainability improvement.

#048 - Shaping the Future of Software Development with Idan Gazit (GitHub Next)

Meet Idan Gazit from GitHub Next, a team responsible for projects like GitHub Copilot. Gazit, despite jokingly claiming to be "the least knowledgeable about Kubernetes," shares his diverse career journey, spanning from early web development with Perl and Django to his time at Heroku and eventually GitHub. He discusses his team's role in prototyping future software development solutions, emphasizing the importance of identifying and nurturing risky, impactful ideas for developers, even if it means "killing projects" that don't gain traction.

Build and deploy a Pinecone question answering RAG application

Vector databases allow you to store, manage, and efficiently query high-dimensional vector data, which are numerical representations of data like text, images, or audio. Pinecone is a fully managed vector database optimized for fast, scalable similarity search—to power a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system. This allows you to enhance language model responses by grounding them in relevant context retrieved from your own documents.

New in Redgate Monitor: Oracle Data Guard support

Redgate Monitor now supports Oracle Data Guard environments, giving DBAs instant visibility into replication health, lag and role transitions, so Standbys stay in sync and are ready to protect availability and data when needed. DBAs running Oracle Data Guard know that keeping replicas healthy requires constant vigilance. It often involves querying dynamic performance views, such as V$DATAGUARD_STATS, or running Data Guard Broker commands to check lag and role status.

Netdata AI Troubleshooting is Now Generally Available with On-Demand Credits

Since launching our AI investigations and insights in a research preview, one thing has become clear: automated root cause analysis delivers a significant return on investment. Teams have confirmed that instant insights don’t just save a few minutes; they fundamentally shorten incident response cycles, free up valuable engineering hours, and reduce the business impact of downtime.

Digital Infrastructure Expertise: The Secret Sauce for Scaling AI

The past few years have seen the incredible rise of cloud-native AI start-ups, many of them born during the pandemic. These companies emerged agile, experimental, and ready to scale. But as their ambitions grow and their AI models become more complex, they face a critical crossroads: how to manage infrastructure sustainably while continuing to innovate at speed. In the early days, public cloud services were the obvious choice.

What is Single Pane of Glass Monitoring and How Can Enterprises Leverage It for Enhanced Visibility?

Large enterprises today grapple with increasingly complex IT environments - spanning multiple cloud services, hybrid infrastructures and countless applications. Exacerbated by technology silos, the sheer volumes of data generated in such environments can quickly overwhelm IT teams, impairing their ability to identify and respond to customer impacting issues before outages strike.