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Today marks an exciting milestone for BigPanda and for the future of IT Operations. We’re thrilled to announce that BigPanda has acquired Velocity, an AI SRE company whose technology and team share our passion for transforming how enterprises keep the digital world running. Velocity brings deep expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and major incident response, developed alongside some of the world’s most sophisticated technology organizations.

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: Harness has once again been named to Inc.’s 2025 Power Partners list, recognizing companies that go above and beyond to help their customers succeed. This marks our second year in a row on the list — and while awards are always nice, this one feels special because it celebrates something deeper than technology. It’s about the relationships, trust, and collaboration that power real outcomes for our customers every day.

As excitement builds for KubeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, Densify has released its latest innovation for Kubernetes and AI-driven infrastructure resource management: the Densify Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. This new capability enables organizations to securely integrate Densify’s Kubex resource optimization intelligence directly into popular LLM-powered tools — including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and Gemini CLI.

For years, enterprises have turned to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for what it does best: powering mission-critical applications with unmatched performance, security, and predictable economics. OCI has historically staked its reputation on being the go-to platform for organizations running complex, data-intensive workloads, from core databases and ERP systems to large-scale compute clusters, while putting extra focus on security and predictable pricing.

A feast of new features. A cornucopia of new capabilities. A banquet of breakthroughs (and the T-day puns are just getting started). Graylog 7.0 brings a full plate of advancements that help security teams cut through noise, control cloud costs, and respond with confidence. We’re serving practical improvements across dashboards, automation, and AI support so analysts can focus on action instead of manual effort.

In 2022, we introduced Grafana Mimir, our open source, horizontally scalable, multi-tenant time series database (TSDB) designed for long-term storage of Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics. Over the years, Mimir has become a go-to metrics backend within the open source community, with 30 project maintainers and more than 4.7k GitHub stars.

InfluxDB 3.6 is now available for both Core and Enterprise. This release introduces the 1.4 update to InfluxDB 3 Explorer, featuring the beta launch of Ask AI, along with new capabilities for simple startup and expanded functionality in the Processing Engine. InfluxDB 3 Core is free and open source, optimized for recent data, and licensed under MIT and Apache 2. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise extends Core with long-term data retention, clustering, fine-grained security, and management capabilities.