Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

If you’re comparing OpsGenie vs. PagerDuty, there’s something important you need to know right away: OpsGenie is shutting down. OpsGenie has been a trusted ally for incident teams for over a decade. In our Ode to OpsGenie, we celebrated its legacy—from simplifying on-call rotations to reducing alert noise effectively. Atlassian announced that OpsGenie sales will stop on June 4, 2025, with a complete shutdown by April 5, 2027.

In Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), distinguishing incident management from problem management is crucial. While both processes aim to maintain system reliability, they fulfill distinct roles: incident management focuses on quickly resolving immediate disruptions, whereas problem management identifies and rectifies root causes to prevent recurrence. Effectively combining these processes helps minimize downtime, enhances system resilience, and fosters a proactive operational approach.

We're taking a look at our clients' journey to a hybrid-cloud architecture, exploring the benefits private cloud boasts over on-premise infrastructure and how this helps an organisation's digital transformation. The adoption of cloud technology is determined by where data originated and is held, and how it is used.

Here at Civo, we’re proud to announce that we have become the first UK company to successfully host and operationalize Meta’s new Llama 4 model family on relaxAI, our AI assistant. This breakthrough positions relaxAI at the forefront of sovereign AI development, combining world-class capabilities with uncompromising data protection standards that UK businesses can trust.

We are thrilled to announce the release of Charmed Kubeflow 1.10, Canonical’s latest update to the widely-adopted open source MLOps platform. This release integrates significant improvements from the upstream Kubeflow 1.10 project, while also bringing a suite of additional capabilities targeted towards enterprise deployments. Charmed Kubeflow 1.10 empowers machine learning practitioners and teams to operationalize machine learning workflows more efficiently, securely, and seamlessly than ever.

We are excited to announce the release of our ultimate tools for database management, administration, development, and deployment – dbForge SQL Tools and dbForge Studio for SQL Server. The new version, 7.1, mainly focuses on extended connectivity and compatibility. It allows SQL developers, database and system administrators to stay tuned and highly productive with the latest server features and quickly connect to databases without handling compatibility or connectivity issues.

Google Cloud Platform, or GCP, is a cloud resources collection offered by Google for enterprise and standard users. GCP offers a wide range of cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, security, analytics, and even machine learning models. Google Cloud products are the backbone of many cloud applications. Google Cloud allows flexibility with the scalable and predictable cost management.