Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

From Trough to Traction: 10 Real-World Lessons in Cloud and AI Efficiency

When CloudZero CTO Erik Peterson joined the SourceForge podcast in January 2026, he didn’t just talk about cloud costs. He reframed them as a launchpad for innovation, survival, and competitive advantage. Whether he was describing the “trough of lost innovation,” the “freemium tax,” or why efficiency is the next frontier of engineering culture, Erik’s expert insights go beyond FinOps hygiene.

AI Is Bigger Than LLMs: Why Network Teams Need to Think Beyond Chatbots and Agents

AI in network operations is more than chatbots and agents. LLMs make AI easier to use, but the real value comes from the underlying system of telemetry, data pipelines, analytics, ML models, domain knowledge, and workflows that help engineers reason, predict, and act. When designed thoughtfully, AI doesn’t replace engineers. Instead, it augments their expertise and reduces cognitive load across complex network operations.

How to Build High-Performing ITSM Operations (Best Practices Guide)

Struggling with rising ticket volumes and manual handoffs? ITSM best practices provide structure for incident management, change control, and service requests, so your team can scale without breaking workflows. From defining clear incident workflows to building strong knowledge systems and tracking SLA performance, these practices help IT teams deliver measurable service outcomes. You'll find essential practices for incident, problem, and change management, automation strategies to improve efficiency, key metrics such as MTTR and FCR, and a maturity model to drive continuous improvement.

Feature Friday: Personalized Context in One Click. New Cortex MCP My Workspace

Stop digging through tabs and explaining your role to your tools. In this Feature Friday, we’re unveiling 'My Workspace' for the Cortex MCP, designed to give you instant, personalized identity the moment you start your day. Before today, you had to manually fetch data from Jira, GitHub, and internal docs just to figure out your priorities. Now, you can simply ask, "What should I work on this week?" and get a parallel, high-speed pull of your entire ecosystem.

Dark Mode in AlloyScan #darkmode #sysadmin

Nobody enjoys working in an app that suddenly blasts a bright white screen. That’s why we added Dark Mode to *AlloyScan* in the latest update — and made it smart enough to match Alloy Navigator’s theme whenever you open it from there. Built for everyday IT work, *AlloyScan* is a cloud-based network inventory solution designed to give you clear visibility into your IT infrastructure, without causing eye strain.

Heartbeat behind the metrics | Jasper on why availability will never stop mattering

What does it take to build a monitoring platform that teams rely on every single day? In this episode of Heartbeat Behind the Metrics, Jamesraj Paul Jasper, Principal Product Manager of Site24x7, talks about his 15-year journey with the product and the moments that still stand out. He dives into why APM Insights is closest to his heart, and also shares a proud team moment where a complex enterprise feature was designed, built, and shipped in just two weeks through tight coordination.