Aiven offers managed Valkey, an open source NoSQL database compatible with legacy OSS Redis* perfect for caching, message queues, and more. Today ‍Aiven is launching Aiven for Valkey to give customers a fully open source Redis alternative. Aiven for Caching will remain available to existing customers, but due to recent Redis licensing changes, it will remain on Redis 7.2.4. Valkey is a fork of OSS Redis, version 7.2.5, maintained by the Linux Foundation and is fully backwards compatible with Redis.

Read the full ebook, The Value of Implementing an Automation Center of Excellence, here. Automation has been a proven change-maker for business operations for decades. In this era of technology and innovation, its use is geared towards streamlining repetitive tasks, boosting developer productivity, and reducing operational costs.

The ability to quickly and accurately identify the root cause of IT incidents is paramount. According to EMA Research, more than 80% of IT professionals said a solution that could generate an accurate summary of alerts and incidents, including the likely root cause, would be transformational or high value. Respondents noted that such a solution would reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 10 to 30 minutes.

IT operations teams in the financial services industry face serious challenges. Customers expect a seamless experience across a complex landscape including online platforms, mobile devices, and ATMs. Competition is fierce. Technology evolution continually disrupts the marketplace. These factors create obstacles for the teams tasked with ensuring near-perfect service availability while continuing to innovate.

Monitoring all of your organization’s logs can be challenging particularly when these logs are generated by various systems, applications, and devices, often in a variety of different formats. As well as this, the sheer amount of logs produced can be overwhelming, sifting through vast amounts of log data to find relevant information becomes time-consuming and inefficient. This highlights the need for a centralized log management that can alleviate these difficulties.

If you operate in FinOps, are part of an MSP, or work for an enterprise utilizing the cloud, you’re likely familiar with the latest updates on CloudHealth after its acquisition by Broadcom. Since 2018, CloudHealth has been closely tied to the term “acquired,” initially by VMware and now by Broadcom, creating an ongoing change cycle. Clients and prospects are understandably cautious when observing CloudHealth as the climate uncertainty and instability grow.

Splunk is a powerful unified security and observability tool that analyzes data and logs. Splunk allows you to monitor and visualize data in real-time. It analyzes machine-generated data and logs through a web interface. It was acquired by Cisco in a $28 billion deal. While Splunk is a powerful platform, it might not suit your needs. In this post, we discuss 11 top Splunk alternatives that you can consider. Splunk provides a wide range of tools for analyzing and visualizing your data fast and at scale.