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The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is set to reshape how financial institutions in the EU manage and contract with their technology providers. Since January 17, 2025, DORA requires financial entities to meet stricter rules for managing digital risks, especially when it comes to the third-party ICT (Information and Communication Technology) service providers they rely on.

Speed is no longer a luxury in IT operations—it’s a requirement. When systems falter, alerts spike, or new services go live, time becomes the most valuable resource. And yet, many IT teams are still shackled to tools and processes that take weeks—or months—to show measurable value. The question technical leaders increasingly ask is: How fast can we get value? Not just dashboards. Not just data.

Enforce configuration standards with the Opslogix Compliance Management Pack Maintaining compliance is not just a matter of policy, it is a matter of operational stability and security. But with so many moving parts, configuration drift is almost inevitable. The Opslogix Compliance Management Pack helps identify these deviations by continuously verifying key system configurations and alerting when they fall out of alignment.

Ensure the availability of critical services with the Opslogix Core Windows Service Management Pack In a typical SCOM environment, a lot of the Management Packs are designed to monitor services tied to a specific technology, such as SQL Server, IIS, or the Windows operating system itself. But what about services that don’t belong to any particular application but are essential across all servers?

Today, BigPanda released our first-ever research report based on data gathered from our agentic IT operations platform. Our Monitoring and Observability Tool Effectiveness for IT Event Management report provides insights and benchmarks on incident detection and noise reduction for 130 enterprise organizations, including the monitoring and observability data sources integrated with BigPanda.

When an alert comes in, it’s not always obvious who picked it up. You might see an issue sitting unresolved, but no one has said anything yet. Was it acknowledged? Is someone already working on it? These are questions that teams deal with every day – especially when multiple people are on duty and the pressure is on.

Time series data powers nearly every modern system, from industrial equipment and energy grids to financial platforms and digital services. Devices and software continuously generate streams of time-stamped metrics that reflect how systems perform moment to moment. Most businesses collect this data, but far fewer utilize its full potential. Storing information and reviewing dashboards offers limited value.

Tired of paying for subscriptions for your cloud storage plan? The answer may be one time payment cloud storage deals. Although not every cloud service provides them, there are a few that offer a one-time payment deal so you can access cloud storage forever. These cloud storage deals are a great investment if you want to choose a provider to store your files forever, and with Internxt's lifetime plans, you not only get cloud storage but much, much more.

Picture this. Gartner forecasts worldwide end-user spending for public cloud usage to total more than $720 billion in 2025 — up from $595 billion in 2024. Out of that spend, SaaS will make up a chunky $299 billion. For comparison, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) will make up nearly $212 billion and $209 billion, respectively. Elsewhere, BetterCloud’s State of SaaS 2025 report found that the average organization uses 106 different SaaS tools.

You’re probably not combing through cloud bills. That’s not your job as CEO. But if no one on your executive team can tell you what it costs to serve a customer, ship a feature, or launch a new product line, that’s a problem. Not a someday problem. A right-now, quietly-draining-your-margins kind of problem. FinOps tends to get lumped in with cost-cutting — some finance thing, some DevOps thing. But that framing misses the point. Done right, FinOps is a growth enabler.