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We can't wait for SBOMs to be demanded by regulation

Old ads can be startling—cigarette ads used to boast their health-giving properties, sugar-laden candy was once advertised as a dietary aid, and soft drinks were advertised as a milk alternative for babies. None of this would fly today, of course, thanks to regulations. Foods must be advertised more responsibly, and they must list their ingredients clearly on the packaging, especially allergens.

Achieve proactive VM performance management with OpManager

Virtualization and the creation of many virtual machines (VMs) within the same infrastructure was the solution organizations came up with when faced with expansive, expensive networks that needed more hardware and thus more capital expenditure to host applications. While they resolved the bigger pain points, VMs still have to be monitored as they are heavy on resource usage.

Release 1.44.0 - Netdata vs Prometheus, Netdata Journal Logs, Netdata's log2journal (Beta) and more!

The Netdata Team is very excited to introduce you to all the new features and improvements in the new version. Release HIGHLIGHTS: To achieve these astonishing results, we made the following changes to Netdata since the previous release: New SLOTS streaming protocol, Streaming compression algorithms, Gorilla compression beta In this release, we introduce several changes to allow the plugin to work promptly in such environments. Netdata can now deal with huge systemd-journal databases and is available for the host logs when Netdata runs in a container.

The Three Ways of DevOps Governance

In this blog post, I take a look at modern IT governance by applying the classic “Three Ways” of DevOps principles originally introduced by Gene Kim in his seminal 2012 article. “We assert that the Three Ways describe the values and philosophies that frame the processes, procedures, practices of DevOps, as well as the prescriptive steps.” Here’s a quick reminder of the three ways set out by Gene: For Gene, all DevOps patterns can be derived from these three principles.

Release Roundup Dec 2023: Driving reliability standards (and much more)

2023 is coming to a close and the holiday season is here, but that doesn’t mean things at Gremlin are slowing down. In fact, we’ve released a ton of new features and improvements to make testing and improving reliability even easier. Now you can run Chaos Engineering experiments in serverless environments, create custom reliability test suites, create more flexible Scenarios, and more easily identify critical components in your environment.

How CSRD and EED are Reshaping Data Center Sustainability Reporting

The CSRD is a new regulation that mandates companies operating in the European Union (EU) to disclose their ESG performance and impact. This directive applies to both EU and non-EU companies, including US, Canadian and UK companies, with over 500 employees and listed on EU-regulated markets or operating in specific sectors like banking, insurance, energy, and transport.