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Companies obsess over end user experience, whether it is Amazon’s customer-centric innovation or Steve Jobs suggesting starting with the customer experience and working backwards to technology. But as our world becomes more knowledge-based and digital, we also need to consider the most important stakeholder on the payroll - software engineers.

March 26, 2024: Today, Canonical announced the release of Charmed MongoDB, an enterprise solution for MongoDB® that comes with advanced automation features, multi-cloud capabilities and comprehensive support.

"Music is noise that makes sense," said author Yann Martel, implying that if a sound doesn't make sense, then it is perceived as just noise. Noise can thus be defined as any alert that affects our senses and disturbs our peace without adding any value. The digital age drowns us in stimuli of all kinds all the time, making the struggle to ignore noise in order to filter for sense harder than ever.

So, you’ve been tasked with automating one or more of your tedious, time-consuming IT processes… but, what exactly does that mean? And perhaps more importantly, where on earth do you start? IT process automation (ITPA) can cover a broad spectrum of potential use-cases, ranging everywhere from the Service Desk, to the NOC, to Infrastructure, and well beyond.

Ciara Carey reflects on her experience at the KubeCon event in Paris including her top 10 talks and current industry trends.

Traditionally, data centers have been managed using on-premises software – and for many companies, this solution has been sufficient. However, as the data center environment becomes more intricate and dynamic, a new approach to management is required. Cloud-based Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software has emerged as the next generation of management tools, offering unmatched flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.