AI in SRE: Where and how Google is deploying agentic AI to improve operations
With SRE AI, Google plans to fully adopt AI and agentic technologies, leveraging AI as a force multiplier while also maintaining control.
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Clouds Without the Fog: Unified Control for Hybrid SAP
SAP customers with complex SAP know the challenges of managing multiple landscapes well. While classic tools like SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) and Focused Run served us well for years, they were built for a static, on-premises world. Now, with the 2027 end-of-support deadline for legacy solutions looming, the "fog" of hybrid management is getting thicker.
Best Cloud Monitoring Tools in 2026 [20+ Analyzed, Top 6 Picks]
The best cloud monitoring tools are Hyperping (uptime, server monitoring, status pages, and on-call at a flat rate), Datadog (full-stack observability with the broadest integration catalog), New Relic (usage-based observability with the most generous free tier), Dynatrace (AI-driven automatic root-cause analysis for large enterprises), Better Stack (monitoring paired with logs and incident response), and Prometheus + Grafana (the open-source standard for cloud-native metrics).
Where to find lost engineering time in your delivery pipeline
If your infrastructure is configured outside version control through dashboards, scripts, or manual steps, environment drift is the expected outcome. Most teams have lived this scenario. A feature works in staging but breaks in production. Two hours later, someone finds a configuration setting that was changed in staging three weeks ago and never documented.
Unified observability for Alibaba Cloud with Datadog
Alibaba Cloud is a major cloud provider in APAC, offering industry-leading foundational AI models in addition to compute, managed databases, object storage, and Kubernetes through its Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK). Teams choose Alibaba Cloud for its infrastructure availability across Asia Pacific and its managed services. For SREs and platform engineers, that often means running Alibaba Cloud alongside AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
IaaS cost control: how private cloud reduces enterprise cloud spend
Over the past five years, one of the most consistently tracked figures in the UK business technology sector has been the flight from public cloud. Barclays' 2021 CIO survey revealed that 43% of enterprises plan to shift workloads away from public cloud. By 2024, that had grown to 83%. Research for Pulsant in 2025 found that 87% of UK businesses planned to repatriate data away from the public cloud within the next two years.
Federated Search | From Silos to Insight | Splunk Cloud with Apache Iceberg REST and AWS S3
This walk-through shows how Splunk Cloud can search AWS S3 data through an Apache Iceberg REST catalog backed by Nessie. Learn how Iceberg table metadata, S3 storage, and Splunk Federated Search work together so analysts can query historical security data where it lives without reingesting it into Splunk.
The Hybrid Shift: Where Workloads Are Headed and How to Move Them
Businesses migrating from a single, public cloud provider has been the direction of travel of UK digital infrastructure for years. As far back as 2020, Barclays found that 43% of enterprise CIOs were already planning to bring workloads back from the public cloud to on-premises or private cloud infrastructure. Since then, IDC, Gartner and a host of vendor surveys have tracked an increase in this intention.
Data sovereignty is an opportunity for regional growth
Data sovereignty wasn’t a major topic just a few years ago and now it’s becoming a major economic opportunity for regions across the UK. In this clip from Perspectives from the Edge, Katie Gallagher OBE from Manchester Digital discusses why the conversation around data sovereignty has shifted, and how the rise of AI is accelerating demand for trusted regional digital infrastructure. As organisations rethink where data is stored, processed and governed, regions like Manchester are increasingly well placed to benefit through investment, innovation and digital skills growth.
Hybrid Cloud Monitoring Explained: On-Prem + Cloud + Kubernetes in One View
Understand what hybrid cloud monitoring is and why it’s critical for managing modern distributed IT environments. Hybrid cloud monitoring helps organizations unify visibility across on-prem infrastructure, public cloud platforms, virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes clusters in a single monitoring platform. In this video, learn how fragmented monitoring tools create operational blind spots and slow down incident response across hybrid environments.