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Dear Nexthink community, We are excited to be named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Employee Experience Tools for the third year in a row. I want to share this recognition with our customers, our partners and ecosystem, and every Nexthinker across the world. As a founder, it’s a true honor to work alongside so many talented people. To us, this recognition is also yours.

We’re excited to announce the launch of the StatusGator browser extension, now available for both Chrome and Firefox. Whether you’re troubleshooting an issue, wondering if a website is down, or looking for more information about an ongoing incident, the extension gives you instant access to service status information with a single click. Simply install the extension and start checking the status of websites and services as you browse.

Progress has been named a winner at this year's Network Computing Awards, earning industry recognition for its ongoing commitment to innovation and delivering real-world value to customers. A standout event in the UK technology calendar, the Network Computing Awards celebrate organizations and solutions that are driving measurable impact across the industry.

HAProxy 3.4 is a milestone release that significantly advances HAProxy’s legendary flexibility, performance, security, reliability, and observability. Dynamic backend management simplifies integration with modern architectures, memory efficiency improves across a broader range of workloads, native cryptographic operations at the proxy layer open new possibilities for API security architectures, and OpenTelemetry support makes HAProxy a first-class participant in distributed tracing pipelines.

Gartner expects worldwide AI software spending to hit $2.59 trillion in 2026, 47% more than organizations spent last year. The dollars are real and growing fast. But most organizations still can't measure the ROI of that spend. The problem has two sides: developers and infrastructure. On the developer side, engineers are using AI to write nearly every line of new code, and leaders have no way to tell whether that spend is producing software that ships.

Today, Canonical announced the release of Workshop, a solution for launching development environments with a single command. These environments are configured once, and can be reproduced on different machines. This means consistent workflows across development machines and deployment pipelines, and less time managing dependencies.

If you manage enterprise networks, this scenario probably sounds familiar: An IP conflict surfaces, connectivity drops for a group of users, and the confusion begins. You check your DHCP server, dig through scope utilization, and try to piece together what went wrong, often after the disruption has already occurred. For years, network administrators have needed a single console for visibility and control into DHCP.