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civo

The hidden costs of "free" cloud credits: A wake-up call for businesses

Oct 27, 2025 By Emma Stewart-Oram In Civo
To read the full findings from this research, visit our whitepaper "Decoding Cloud Credits" by clicking here. The allure of "free" cloud credits can be tempting, but beneath the surface lies a complex web of risks and consequences that can ultimately lock businesses into costly and restrictive cloud ecosystems. Our latest whitepaper, "Decoding Cloud Credits", explores the true costs of these promotional offers and the implications for businesses.
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cortex

How Cortex brings visibility, governance, and self-service to Kubernetes operations

Oct 27, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
Platform teams handle cluster provisioning manually because it requires oversight. A product team needs a cluster, so they submit a request. Someone reviews the configuration, provisions it through the cloud provider, waits for it to spin up, and sends back access details. Two days later, the cluster is ready. The delay is intentional. Without review, teams provision oversized clusters that blow budgets, misconfigure networking, or deploy in the wrong regions.
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observo ai

How AI-Native Pipelines Reduce 80% of Noisy Data for Lower Costs and Better Security

Oct 27, 2025 By Bryan Turriff In Observo.ai
Security data is exploding. Most organizations see their telemetry volumes double every two to three years, driven by cloud adoption, distributed architectures, and an expanding attack surface. Yet only a small percentage of that data contains real indicators of compromise. Analysts estimate that nearly 80 percent of SIEM and observability logs have little or no analytical value.
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ilert

Bring incident response to AI stack with ilert's MCP Server

Oct 27, 2025 By Tim Gühnemann In iLert
ilert’s engineering team has developed an open Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants to securely interact with your alerting and incident management workflows, from determining who is on call to creating incidents. In this article, we provide a simple explanation of MCP, outline the reasons behind our investment in it, describe the high-level architecture, and explain how to connect Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients to ilert today.
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Teneo

Shadow AI on Trial: The Phantom Threat to Compliance

Oct 27, 2025 By Teneo In Teneo
Every law firm I meet can explain its information security policy in minutes. Far fewer can tell me which AI tools their staff actually used last week, and what data those tools touched. That gap is where Shadow AI sits, such as unsanctioned, unmonitored use of generative AI slips in. It promises speed, but it quietly creates exposure: confidentiality breaches, weak auditability, and a risk to governance when the regulator (or a client’s GC) asks hard questions.
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InvGate

IT Inventory Management Software: 8 Options For 2026

Oct 27, 2025 By Melisa Wrobel In InvGate
IT Inventory Management software is essential for organizations because it automates and streamlines many of the tasks involved in managing IT assets. With so many options available, choosing the right one isn’t always easy. To help, we combined market research based on public data with our experience supporting hundreds of organizations in implementing InvGate Asset Management, our IT Asset Management solution.
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cloudzero

Chargeback Vs. Showback: Choosing The Right Cost Allocation Model For FinOps

Oct 27, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
One of the most challenging aspects of running a SaaS business is dealing with highly variable costs. Every service you provide needs resources, and the demand for those resources fluctuates. Just when you think you’ve got this quarter’s budget nailed down, an engineer makes a restructuring decision or a new feature launch exceeds expectations (or falls flat). Suddenly, your bill looks totally different than what you were expecting.
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Internxt

Dropbox vs Google Drive: What is the Best Cloud Storage Service?

Oct 27, 2025 By Joe Tobin In Internxt
When you hear the words cloud storage, you usually think of Google Drive and Dropbox. Why? Because they are huge and old, and they spend millions (maybe billions) trying to ensure you never forget who they are. So, which one of the old tech nobility is better? Is Google Drive or Dropbox cheaper? Which one is the better option for you? Or is there a better and more private cloud sternative you could choose instead?
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New Phish Kit Warning: Tykit's Evasion Tricks and What Analysts Should Do

New Phish Kit Warning: Tykit's Evasion Tricks and What Analysts Should Do

Oct 27, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
A new phishing kit, Tykit, is rapidly spreading, using malicious SVG files to mimic Microsoft 365 login pages and steal corporate credentials. Linked to hundreds of compromised accounts across finance, IT, government, and telecom sectors, it shows how simple code tweaks can outsmart traditional defenses. ANY.RUN experts traced 180+ sandbox sessions revealing the kit's infrastructure and patterns, and how analysts can detect it within minutes where standard scanners see nothing.
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