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Daniel Acosta, Liberty Latin America @ Ribbon Insights

In a recent discussion with Daniel Acosta from Ribbon Insights, he elaborated on the strategic initiatives planned for 2025, focusing on transforming the legacy network into a more modern infrastructure. Over the past two years, the team has been working towards this transformation by partnering with Ron to implement the new C20 A2 G6 network technology. Acosta expressed enthusiasm about the shift toward cloud solutions, particularly in Latin America, and highlighted the significance of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) in optimizing network performance.

Paul Loots of Convergeone @Ribbon INSIGHTS

In this video, Paul Loots from ConvergeOne discusses the key initiatives for 2025 regarding the Edge series, highlighting the importance of the new 8500 model for enhancing port density and modernization of legacy systems. The conversation focuses on specific vertical markets that could benefit from these advancements, including alarm companies, educational institutions, and healthcare providers. Loots shares his excitement about the technological developments presented at the event and the value of in-person interactions for fostering professional relationships.

How to Monitor Apache Zookeeper Using the OpenTelemetry Collector

Apache Zookeeper is a distributed coordination tool that helps keep large-scale systems in sync. It’s the backbone for managing leader elections, service discovery, and metadata storage in projects like Kafka, Hadoop, and Elasticsearch. Think of it as a highly available traffic controller for distributed apps, ensuring everything runs smoothly.

Best status page software in 2025 [25 analyzed, top 5 picks]

Are you looking for a reliable status page solution to keep your users informed? Wondering what alternatives are available to help you communicate system status effectively? While Statuspage.io used to be everyone's default choice, today's DevOps and SRE teams have a hard time justifying this choice. And there are a lot of new tools popping up every year. For this guide, we analyzed 25 tools and we'll explore the best status page software available today.

AI Agents: Your data sidekick (minus the coffee breaks)

Do you ever wish you had a personal data guru who could magically sift through all your data, spot patterns before they become problems, summarize everything in a way that actually makes sense and propose recommendations? Well, meet AI Agents—the “digital teammates” who do all that without demanding coffee breaks.

SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted | 2025.1 GA Release Features Demo

This webcast shows off the latest features included in the 2025.1 GA Release of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted. Product experts Erik Eff and Chad Every discuss the importance of total cost of ownership and customer feedback in driving product development, highlighting key areas such as hybrid IT visibility and AI-driven solutions. The demo section showcases improvements in cloud monitoring, device support, and user experience, including a new NOC dashboard with dark theme.