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Beyond the Inbox: How Operations-Led Marketing Teams Are Rebuilding Direct Mail Into the Modern Stack

The B2B marketing inbox is no longer a reliable channel. Apple Mail Privacy Protection has effectively broken open-rate measurement for a significant share of US recipients. Gmail's tightened sender requirements have raised the cost of cold outreach. Average B2B email open rates now hover in the low 20s, and reply rates on cold outbound have continued to slide year over year.

How to Find Technical Candidates When Local Hiring Isn't Working

When you need a specialist technical role filled, and it's been open for months, you need to take drastic action to get people in vacancies and have people on your team to support what you do. But what do you do when those people are scarce, when there's a significant shortage of suitable or experienced candidates applying for your vacancy? There are options, but you need to know where to look to help you reach the right people.

Devart Brings AI Agents Closer to Enterprise Data with New MCP Server Product Line

We are excited to announce the release of the brand new line of MCP Servers (Model Context Protocol), designed to connect AI assistants, AI agents, and large language models directly to enterprise databases and cloud business platforms. The release includes 19 specialized MCP Servers and the flagship Universal MCP Server, which enables AI access to virtually any data source through the ODBC standard.
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Multi-Cloud Monitoring And Why Status Pages Aren't Enough

Multi-cloud environments make outage detection harder. Relying on individual status pages from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure often leads to delayed, incomplete, or conflicting signals during incidents. This article explains how fragmented visibility impacts incident response, and how aggregating status across cloud and SaaS dependencies helps DevOps teams detect outages faster and respond with confidence.

From Watching AI Search to Engineering for It: What Q1 2026 Taught Us About Real Digital Demand

Last year, I wrote about how AI-driven search trends reshaped my digital marketing strategy in ways I hadn’t seen in two decades. At the time, the story was mostly observational: traffic patterns were changing, conversions were holding, and AI-generated search answers were clearly influencing buyer behavior. Fast-forward to the first quarter of 2026, and one thing is clear — this shift didn’t slow down; it accelerated.

Inside the Grafana AI Team Weekly: Workspaces and Investigations (April 28, 2026)

This is an excerpt from a real AI team weekly meeting where we talk about the stuff we build and occasionally also demo them! In this one, Staff Product Design Engineer Ben Darlow demos improvements to Workspace Home. Staff Software Engineer Sonia Aguilar and Principal Software Engineer Sven Großmann also demo a new dependency graph view for Investigations. We're showing parts of our team meetings to build in public in some small way and give you a sneak preview of what's to come. But not all features we show may make it to production! You've been warned. :)

How to Overcome Government Payment Fraud with Speed and Scale

Government payment fraud is a fast-growing risk for public sector organisations in Australia and globally. From welfare and healthcare payments to business grants and disaster relief, increasingly sophisticated organised criminal networks and other actors exploit complex, high-volume government programs to unlawfully access public funds. The impact is significant—billions lost, program integrity undermined, and essential resources diverted.