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Cost, competition and choice: reinvigorating the cloud market for British business

The long-awaited cloud services market investigation from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been published and is an important milestone in the evolution of the UK’s digital infrastructure as a whole. For those unaware of the findings, the report was primarily designed to evaluate whether any features of the UK cloud market were impacting competition because of concerns that a lack of competition was pushing up costs and reduced quality of service.

Redgate Flyway and Azure DevOps: The Power of Integration

While Azure DevOps offers a solid framework for application development, integrating Flyway into this setup can greatly simplify and enhance database deployments. In today’s fast-changing database environment, development teams are always looking for ways to improve their deployment processes. While Azure DevOps offers a solid framework for application development, integrating Redgate Flyway into this setup can greatly simplify and enhance database deployments.

Instrument Google Cloud Run applications with the new Datadog Agent sidecar

Google Cloud Run is a fully managed service that allows you to deploy, manage, and scale workloads on serverless containers. Because Cloud Run abstracts away infrastructure management and runs on complex, distributed backends, it can be difficult to troubleshoot. Datadog’s integrations with Google Cloud and Google Cloud Run address that challenge by collecting and visualizing key metrics and logs.

Grafana Loki 101: How to ingest logs with Alloy or the OpenTelemetry Collector

Logs play a critical role in observability, but they do come with their own challenges. Grafana Loki, our horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system, addresses these challenges head on, giving you an open source tool that’s both cost effective and easy to operate.

The One Where We Meet Cribl Copilot

We’re kicking off our new live weekly product demo series—streaming on YouTube, X, and LinkedIn! Each week, we’ll dive into the latest features and hidden gems from the Cribl Suite of tools to help you unlock the full potential of your telemetry data. For our first session, we’re thrilled to welcome Nikhil Mungel, the visionary behind Cribl Copilot. This AI-powered assistant is designed to: Instantly surface answers from the documentation Build pipelines with just a simple request.

Sam Bucci - Ribbon in the Rapidly Evolving Telecommunications Landscape

In a recent discussion, Sam Bucci elaborated on the unique positioning of Ribbon Communications in the rapidly evolving telecommunications landscape. He emphasized Ribbon’s capability to support a diverse range of customers as they transition their network infrastructures, whether they prefer appliance-based solutions, virtualized network functions (VNFs), or cloud-native solutions. Bucci highlighted Ribbon’s versatility in scaling operations to meet the varying needs of both large Tier One customers, such as Verizon, and smaller businesses in rural areas.

25+ BEST Kubernetes Tools In 2025 [By Category]

Over the past few years, Kubernetes (K8s) has become the preferred method of orchestrating containers and microservices. Its self-healing, high scalability, and open-source nature make it appealing to a wide range of users. However, deploying, running, and scaling containerized applications and microservices with Kubernetes can be challenging. The Kubernetes community keeps growing, but there still aren’t that many experienced K8s engineers.