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Puppet's Strong Performance in The Forrester Wave: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q4 2024 & What It Means for Your Enterprise

Technology's moving incredibly quickly. Automation has shifted from being an optional benefit to a core requirement for businesses aiming to optimize operations, increase efficiency, strengthen security, and maintain regulatory compliance across international markets. At the center of this change is infrastructure automation. To understand which vendors are leading in this area, resources like The Forrester Wave provide valuable comparative analysis.

EMEA Rundeck by PagerDuty Meetup - March 2025

Join us for an informal 1-hour virtual event where the open-source Rundeck by PagerDuty community comes together to share automation stories and use cases. Whether you're new to Rundeck or looking to elevate your automation game, this meetup is packed with valuable takeaways for everyone! CERN Orchestrates with Rundeck.

The Future of IT Operations: Why Auto-Remediation is a Game Changer

IT teams are drowning in alerts, tickets, and endless firefighting. With growing complexity across infrastructure, networks, and applications, manual incident response isn’t just inefficient—it’s unsustainable. That’s where auto-remediation steps in. Auto-remediation goes beyond detection and alerts—it takes action.

How to Take Your Vulnerability Management Program to the Next Level: Automation Strategies & Tactics

A well-built vulnerability management program covers everything from detection to patching to documentation, reporting, and ongoing measurement. Taking a structured approach to vulnerability management is a differentiator for DevOps teams: The more you can automate and enforce, the less time and effort it takes to find, fix, and monitor software vulnerabilities.

A Field Operations Guide for Telecom

Telecommunications (telecom) is the foundation of modern connectivity, enabling the transmission of voice, data, and multimedia across vast distances. Telecom companies build, operate, and maintain extensive infrastructure that supports everything from mobile networks and broadband internet to enterprise communication systems. This infrastructure includes fiber-optic cables, cell towers, satellite systems, and data centers that work together to deliver seamless connectivity.

Masterfiles Policy Framework: the 'module' that started it all

The MPF or Masterfiles Policy Framework is intended to provide a stable base policy for installations and upgrades, and is used by both CFEngine Enterprise and CFEngine community. When you create a new cfbs project with cfbs init one of the questions is related to the MPF: Of particular interest to policy writers is the lib sub-directory: Let’s look through some of the helpful bits you can re-use in your policy!

The Best Low-Code/No-Code Platforms for Software Development

Software development is facing a paradigm shift in 2025. Low-code and no-code platforms enable companies to create applications significantly faster and with less manual coding effort. In light of the shortage of skilled professionals - by 2025, a global deficit of around 4 million software developers is expected - companies are seeking alternatives to traditional programming.

How to Choose the Right Industrial PLC for Manufacturing Automation?

Manufacturing automation relies on precise and efficient control systems. A programmable logic controller (PLC) plays a key role in managing processes, improving efficiency, and reducing downtime. With various options available from different PLC manufacturers, selecting the right one requires an understanding of the specific needs of your operation and the capabilities of different PLC systems.

Automate Your IT Tasks with Recurring Tickets

Tired of manually creating tickets for recurring IT tasks? With recurrent tickets in Alloy Navigator, you can automate the process and free up your time. This set-and-forget feature ensures your repetitive ITSM tasks stay on track—with due dates set, notifications sent, and progress tracked—effortlessly! Key moments.