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Turbo360: Optimizing Compute Costs in Azure

When everybody talks about the economic recession, many companies try to reduce their cloud bills even more than usual. Compute resources usually contribute to the largest portion of those costs, making them the number one target for cost optimization initiatives. Despite cloud providers, like Microsoft Azure, offering many tools, approaches, and guidelines for optimizing cloud compute costs, many companies still stick to very few options without looking at the larger picture.

Elastic: The impact and importance of GenAI, LLMs, and logs on modern observability

Join us for a look at how GenAI and LLMs applied to logs is uncovering new insights for modern observability. From log ingestion and processing to analytics, visualization, and automation, GenAI is now able to extract new and actionable insights from the mountains of log data you collect. Join Elastic's David Hope and John Knoepfle as they walk you through recent advances in log management and analytics and show you how to take advantage of your logs to support your investigations and post-mortems while also reducing toil.

Elastic: Context engineering that works: Production-grade RAG with Contextual AI and Elastic

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) has rapidly evolved from a novel concept to an essential enterprise capability. As data volumes grow, traditional RAG implementations have revealed limitations that are now being addressed through next-gen approaches. Join RAG pioneers and vector database leaders to explore the concept of RAG 2.0. Learn how context-aware architectures deliver deeper semantic understanding, more accurate retrieval, and personalized responses that adapt to user intent and org-level frameworks.

How Secure and Healthy Are Your Custom SCOM Management Packs?

Thanks for using the NiCE Log File Management Pack. We know it’s a favorite among experts building custom SCOM Management Packs. But here’s a quick question: When was the last time someone checked your custom Management Packs for security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, or health risks?

Build EF Core Models Visually with Entity Developer - No More Manual Mapping!

Want to simplify your EF Core development? Discover how Entity Developer — a powerful visual ORM tool from Devart — helps.NET developers design, generate, and maintain EF Core models faster and with fewer errors. In this video, you’ll learn how to: Entity Developer works as both a standalone app and a Visual Studio plugin, giving you flexibility across any development environment. With support for EF Core, NHibernate, and LinqConnect, it's your all-in-one solution for ORM design in.NET.

From Dial-Up to Colo: The Impact of AI on Data Center Design

In this episode of Uplink, we’re joined by Jay Smith, VP of Data Center Operations and Engineering at Evocative. With nearly 30 years in the industry, Jay unpacks how data centers are adapting to support AI’s massive power and cooling demands. This episode covers: Why colo is thriving in the AI era Liquid cooling and rear-door heat exchangers Powering 275kW racks and beyond How AI inference is shifting compute to the edge Career opportunities in infrastructure without a degree.

Build. Release. Run. Repeat. But Where's the Control?

In every engineering organization, from fintech unicorns to 20,000-seat global bank, delivery happens in a loop. Code gets built. Releases get pushed. Systems run 24/7. Then it all happens again. This cycle isn’t an opinionated lifecycle dreamed up by a consultant or vendor, it’s just the reality of software delivery today.

AWS Summit NYC 2025: Laser-Focused on AI

If you’re unfamiliar with AWS Summits, these are conferences that occur on a yearly basis in different cities. The events are mostly used to announce new products and technologies. This year, the theme was AI, as evidenced by the keynote, a large majority of the talks, and a walk around the vendor floor. The keynote talk was hosted by Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Agentic AI at AWS.

Beyond the Horizon: Unlocking the Real MSP Value in Microsoft 365

In this insightful episode, we dive deep into the real-world challenges and opportunities facing MSPs working with Microsoft 365 and related Microsoft technologies. N-able Head Nerd Joe Ferla is joined by Ben Lee, the latest to the Head Nerd team who is a seasoned Microsoft consultant with decades of experience in unified communications, Teams, Intune, and Microsoft Co-pilot. During the conversation Joe and Ben discuss the challenges MSPs and SMEs face when implement Microsoft’s powerful but often complex ecosystem.