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For over two decades, VMware has been the dominant platform for enterprise virtualization. Organizations worldwide have relied on VMware to consolidate servers, improve hardware utilization, and simplify infrastructure management.Broadcom officially completed its acquisition of VMware in 2023 and subsequently there were many changes for VMware users.

OpenTelemetry graduated from the CNCF in May 2026 as, in the foundation’s own words, the de facto observability standard. The JavaScript API package alone did 1.36 billion downloads in twelve months. That kind of win has a side effect nobody plans for. Once a wire format is everywhere, has a receiver for every source, a transform language, and an agent your platform team already operates, people start putting things on it that have nothing to do with knowing whether a service is healthy.

You can now upgrade Ubuntu Server Virtual Machine Scale Sets on Azure to Ubuntu Pro without rebuilding the set. Your instances keep serving traffic. The change is a license update, not a new image. Users could already perform in-place upgrades to Ubuntu Pro for individual VMs. Now, we’re extending the feature to scale sets – groups of load balanced virtual machines that you can manage as a single unit.

For Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), delivering containerized applications to enterprise clients often means navigating a difficult trade-off between minimal image size and accurate security visibility. Traditional approaches can leave development teams battling severe CVE noise or, conversely, missing critical vulnerabilities entirely due to scanner blind spots.

IBM completed its $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp on February 27, 2025. The HCP Terraform free tier ended March 31, 2026. And Terraform's CDKTF framework was quietly deprecated in December 2025. None of these events broke your Terraform infrastructure. But together they raised a question that's harder to dismiss: what are you actually paying for, and what happens if the roadmap shifts again?

Related reading: Still deciding which platform to migrate to? Terraform Alternatives: A 2026 Buyer's Guide compares env zero, Spacelift, Scalr, and the IaC tool alternatives side by side. Migrating from Terraform Cloud (TFC), now known as HCP Terraform, or Terraform Enterprise (TFE) can quickly become complex. Workspaces, variables, remote state, and project structure all need to be recreated carefully to avoid breaking infrastructure workflows.

Every major security information and event management (SIEM) platform prices on the volume of data you send it. Microsoft Sentinel meters per gigabyte across two tiers. Splunk charges per gigabyte indexed or per compute unit. Google SecOps draws down a prepaid gigabyte credit balance. Elastic Security bills ingest plus retention, or the resources your cluster consumes. Three of the four keep their real rates quote-only. Budgeting starts with the meter.

Every so often we sit down with someone from our support team and turn their week into a blog post. This time, Roberto walks us through four things generating tickets right now: an upcoming Microsoft authentication change, how AI credit pools actually work, multi-account support in Kepler, and a one-line fix for laggy GitKraken on Linux or WSL. Here’s what’s changing and what to do about it.