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Becoming an Azure Expert MSP

Recently, Wortell achieved the Microsoft Azure Expert MSP designation, a milestone that places them among a select group of managed service providers recognized for their Azure expertise and operational maturity. In this webinar, Alex Tilgenkamp (Azure Cloud Architect at Wortell) shares insights into what it takes to achieve this designation and what it means for organizations building and scaling their Azure managed services practice.

GreenOps in Practice: What It Means and How to Get Ready for 2026

In this informational webinar, Freddie Booth, FinOps Consultant at Capgemini Invent, explains what GreenOps means in the context of modern cloud operations. You’ll learn why GreenOps is gaining attention across organizations using Azure, how it connects cost management with sustainability, and what steps teams can take today to start preparing for 2026. The session focuses on practical ways to improve cloud efficiency, reduce unnecessary Azure usage, and align FinOps practices with emerging sustainability goals.

Cloud Observability Is Broken - Hybrid Operations Need a New Intelligence Model

Cloud adoption was supposed to simplify operations. Infrastructure would become programmable, scalability would become elastic, and distributed architectures would enable resilience at global scale. In practice, cloud has delivered extraordinary flexibility, but it has also introduced a level of operational complexity that traditional observability approaches were never designed to handle.

Improved Azure status integration

Monitoring Azure health across large environments should not require complicated setup. Until recently, connecting Azure to StatusGator required configuring access at the subscription level, which could become difficult for organizations managing dozens or even hundreds of subscriptions. We redesigned the Azure integration to make it simpler, more scalable, and easier to manage.

The Analyst View on Data Sovereignty with TechMarketView

Perspectives from the Edge: Episode 2 Data sovereignty isn't a solo effort. It's a symphony. Data sovereignty is moving fast up the agenda. But who's orchestrating it? The second episode of Perspectives from the Edge explores the subject through an analyst’s laser lens, in conversation with Kate Hanaghan, Chief Research Officer at TechMarketView. Find out how AI and platform consolidation make data harder to control, how to bake sovereignty into your business from the start – and why the organisations getting it right treat ecosystems as a strategy, not just a procurement exercise.

Seven early warning signs you're heading toward a governance crisis

Governance failures rarely start with a major outage or a failed audit. They start with small, localized signals that teams treat as isolated annoyances. By the time a crisis becomes visible, the structural breakdown is already expensive to fix. If you are in IT leadership or platform engineering, you have likely seen these signs. The risk is ignoring them until they consolidate into a systemic failure.