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Tech Talk: Observability Simplified, APM and Network Behavior

Participants are welcomed to a session titled "Observability Simplified," focusing on user experience, application performance, and network behavior. This second part of a three-part series highlights how the Splunk Observability Cloud and Cisco ThousandEyes can create a unified view of applications, infrastructure, and network performance. Key discussions include addressing siloed troubleshooting, enhancing visibility, and a live demo showcasing how to identify network issues affecting application performance. Attendees are encouraged to participate in the Q&A and are reminded that the session will be recorded for future reference.

SLA vs SLO vs SLI Explained: What Should You Track?

In this video, learn the difference between SLA, SLO, and SLI and why understanding each one is essential for delivering reliable IT services. Discover how these three service level metrics work together and why tracking the right one helps improve service reliability, customer satisfaction, and operational performance. Whether you're an IT operations professional, SRE, DevOps engineer, or service manager, this video explains SLA, SLO, and SLI in simple terms so you can build measurable goals and realistic service commitments.

Grafana & PagerDuty: Automate incident management with ServiceDesk Plus Cloud

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8 Best Patch Management Software for 2026

Somewhere in your environment, a patch is sitting in a queue because the last rollout broke something, and nobody wants to run it again. That is the exact failure mode good patch management software is supposed to prevent, and multiplied across a few hundred endpoints, it is exactly the kind of gap attackers look for.

Megaport Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance

Here’s how Megaport’s new certification gives customers more confidence in the security, availability, and reliability of our platform. Trust is built into infrastructure long before anyone notices it. It sits behind the login screen, inside the change process, across the controls that keep systems protected and services available. It shows up in the quiet, operational work that customers rarely see but rely on every day.

How to patch 40 Drupal sites without 40 manual deployments

Standardizing the fleet: automated updates for multi-site management There's a specific kind of update that Drupal agencies and enterprise teams dread: a security release in something the whole fleet runs on, the PHP runtime, the database engine, or a shared service, with a patched version available now and a deadline attached. For a team managing a single site, moving to the patched version is an afternoon of work.

Building an open source chain of trust: new research uncovers key blockers and ways forward

Canonical is pleased to share its latest research report, “The open source chain of trust.” Based on a survey of 500 DevOps professionals, the report highlights how organizations approach their open source software supply chains. While many companies are moving toward verifiable provenance and automated security workflows, internal misalignment and disjointed approaches remain serious challenges for most teams. Read the report.

Beyond safety and security: Why automotive open source demands dependability

In the traditional automotive world, teams often work in silos: the cybersecurity experts lock down the ports, the quality assurance teams hunt for bugs, and the functional safety engineers track the ISO 26262 compliance. At Canonical, we believe this fragmented workflow causes friction rather than collaboration. You cannot have a safe vehicle that isn’t secure, and you cannot have a secure vehicle running on poor quality code. This friction results in a slow and rigid development process.