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The riskiest thing you can do is not measure your risk

Hiring good engineers is important, but it’s not enough to prevent outages. You need to measure and track your risk to get real results. Full transcript:   My name's Jeff Nickoloff. I'm a principal engineer here at Gremlin.  What I hear non-technical functions talk about is really they are much happier to sort of lean on their great engineers. Oh, we've got a great engineering culture. "We don't have reliability issues because we hire the best people.".

High Score: Megaport Hits 1,000 Locations

To celebrate one of our biggest milestones so far, we reflect on the journey we've taken to get here alongside our incredible partners and customers. Megaport has just hit a milestone that has been over a decade in the making: 1,000 Megaport-enabled locations worldwide. This achievement is more than just a nice, round number – it means Megaport is now available in 10% of all data centers globally. In this industry, that’s a massive deal.

Cloud Services Investigation: What the CMA's findings mean for the cloud industry

In 2022, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) conducted a market study into the UK cloud industry to investigate whether the UK’s cloud market was working well, and if any regulatory intervention was needed¹. Ofcom concluded that the market was dominated by AWS and Microsoft, and that competition was limited, and referred matter to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for further investigation².

A Guide to Agentic Orchestration

A lot of IT organizations (I daresay most IT organizations) aren’t short on bots; they’re short on direction. You've got GenAI copilots here, virtual assistants there, and workflow bots running in many different tools. Maybe one automates diagnostics while another resets passwords. But none of them talk. None of them collaborate. None of them understand what the others are doing. That’s not automation; that’s entropy.