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The Waiting Game for Data Centre Capacity (And How UK Businesses Can Beat It)

UK data centre occupancy hit 91% in 2024, according to Arizton market data, and new capacity is not arriving fast enough to close the gap. Grid connection wait times for new projects now run between five and 15 years, reports Data Center Dynamics, and Savills has attributed the 11% year-on-year drop in new capacity delivery to power constraints rather than a lack of demand or investment. Rising wholesale energy costs are addingpressure to an already tight market.

SSIS Data Flow Components Update Brings Expanded API and Data Source Support

The latest release of Devart SSIS Data Flow Components expands support for cloud applications and databases with new objects and fields, updated API and metadata support, and improved authentication and data access capabilities across multiple connectors.

From alert to answer: a hands-on investigation with trace analysis in Mezmo

Authored by Sven Delmas, VP of Research at Mezmo I wanted to know what Mezmo's new trace features feel like with real telemetry behind them, so I built the smallest honest rig I could: the OpenTelemetry demo application running in a local Kubernetes-in-Docker cluster on my machine, one collector, and one deliberately simple Mezmo pipeline.

Shipped: Personalized cost access, powered by SSO

Instead of building a separate role for every team, region, or department, admins can create a single role that automatically personalizes access for each user based on their SSO attributes. Someone moves teams or a new group gets created, and the new access takes effect at their next login with no CloudZero configuration. As AI spend grows, more companies are looking to give teams visibility into their own AI costs without exposing every individual’s usage across the org.

Getting started with Microsoft Purview dashboards

Microsoft Purview is an enterprise-scale platform for managing data governance across your whole cloud estate. It is not just about ensuring the integrity of data stored in SQL databases — it spans the whole spectrum of data storage including blob storage, document databases, email and AI frameworks. It has an extensive list of features for organising and monitoring your enterprise data. This includes.

Introducing the AI toolkit - build a SquaredUp plugin from a single prompt

When we introduced the Low Code Plugin (LCP) framework in February, the premise was simple: if a system has an API, you should be able to build a plugin for it — quickly, with minimal code, and in a way you can share with the community. The "AI-ready" part was deliberate. The framework was designed to work naturally with AI assistants, so the path from idea to working integration would be as short as possible. That design decision is now paying off.

The Governance Blind Spot: Vendor Lock-In in the AI Development Era

When we launched our Governance Gap series, we set out to explore how the explosion of AI-assisted engineering changes the risk profile for modern software organizations. We looked at the rise of The New Software Creator and analyzed why deployment governance is what keeps teams safe when code production accelerates. We also mapped out the realities of security at scale and defined who owns governance accountability.

Full-Pipeline Blueprints Are Here: Source, Processors, and Destination in One Click

Blueprints launched as processor bundles, and that solved the repetitive middle of the problem. But the middle was never the whole job. You still had to know which source type to add, which parameters mattered, how to batch for your backend, and how to route it all together. That changes now. The first two cover the two requests we hear most.