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Landscape Operations Automation beyond SAP Landscape manager

During the summer of 2024, SAP quietly announced the end of the Landscape Manager product. You can find out more from SAP directly here, including linked SAP Notes. LaMa Discontinued Community Post Unlike the news for Solution Manager or Focused Run, where the 2027 date signals a transition to extended support options, with LaMa the product is discontinued and extended support options aren’t available. For customers using Lama, the announcement and timeline are disruptive.

dotConnect Update: .NET 10 Support, OAuth Integration & Faster Batch Updates

The latest dotConnect release is here, bringing major improvements in performance, security, and cloud connectivity for.NET developers. In this video, we walk through the most important updates: This release is designed for developers who rely on high-performance, secure, and dependable data connectivity in modern.NET environments.

Same Work, More Windows: Why AI Isn't Paying Off Yet (w/ Anthony Firmin)

In the first episode of a NEW ERA for the DEX Show, Tom (that's right, just Tom ) welcomes back AI and digital transformation leader Anthony Firmin to unpack the reality of enterprise AI adoption. Drawing on hard-won, real-world experience, Anthony explores why so many organisations are stuck in the “messy middle” of AI, where usage rises but value doesn’t. The conversation digs into trust, experience debt, shallow versus deep AI, and why “same work, more windows” is an early warning sign leaders ignore at their peril. It’s a grounded, human-centred look at what it really takes to make AI improve work, not just change it.

VictoriaLogs in VictoriaMetrics Cloud: Fast, Cost-Effective Log Management is Here

Yes, you got it right: VictoriaLogs is now Generally Available in VictoriaMetrics Cloud! We believe that this is a huge milestone in our journey to deliver what our users are expecting from us: a complete, managed observability solution. If you’ve been following our quarterly updates, you know we’ve been after this launch for a while. In our latest update a few weeks ago we already announced that we were ready and today we’re making it official.

IT Leadership Best Practices: Why People Matter More Than Tools - SolarWinds TechPod 106

IT leadership best practices fail when organizations focus on tools instead of people. In this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, hosts Chrystal Taylor and Sean Sebring speak with Jon Collins, Field CTO and VP of Engagement at GigaOm, about what truly drives success in IT leadership—people, culture, and principles. This expert discussion breaks down why frameworks like Agile, ITIL, DevOps, and AI-driven operations succeed or fail based on leadership behaviors, prioritization, and trust—not technology alone.

Powering Harness Executions Page: Inside Our Flexible Filters Component | Harness Blog

Filtering data is at the heart of developer productivity. Whether you’re looking for failed builds, debugging a service or analysing deployment patterns, the ability to quickly slice and dice execution data is critical. At Harness, users across CI, CD and other modules rely on filtering to navigate complex execution data by status, time range, triggers, services and much more.

What problem is agentic AI trying to solve?

Agentic AI isn’t limited to security operations. It’s already improving hospitals, financial systems, and service industries by reducing overload and filling skill gaps. Here’s the problem it was actually built to solve. Additional Resources: About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.