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Cortex and Semgrep partner to strengthen application security and drive continuous improvement

At Cortex, our mission is to help engineering organizations deliver reliable, secure, efficient software, faster. With Cortex, teams can standardize against best practices and create a culture of continuous improvement to achieve this. Today, we’re excited to announce a formalized partnership with Semgrep, a leader in modern static analysis and code security.

What is sovereignty washing? When cloud control is more marketing than reality

In 2025, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced plans for an EU Cloud and AI Development Act, prioritizing digital sovereignty amidst growing concerns over data security and privacy. These concerns have been fueled by Edward Snowden's 2013 revelations about US surveillance and further intensified by the Trump administration's actions and rhetoric, including its criticism of EU digital regulations and threats to US tech companies.

Your Cloud Economics Pulse For February 2026

Welcome to February’s Cloud Economics Pulse, CloudZero’s monthly look at cloud spend as AI moves from experiment to expectation. Last month, we closed out 2025 with a settling: provider shares locked in, compute softened, and AI claimed more of the mix (big surprise there). January confirmed those patterns weren’t year-end hustle and bustle. They signify a new baseline. Also, the Big Three (AWS, GCP, Azure) barely moved. They’re as entrenched as can be.

The rise of the agentic future: scaling AI workflows with relaxAI and n8n

This blog is based on the webinar, “From idea to agent: Building AI workflows with relaxAI and n8n”. You can watch the full recording by clicking here! AI isn’t slowing down. We’re moving from “ask a chatbot” to agents that run the multi-step workflows, use tools, and are built for real business processes. Most teams aren’t blocked by ideas. They’re blocked by three things: complexity, cost, and control.

AI Vendor Lock-In: How AI Is Creating A New Dependency Problem

Like most SaaS companies, you’re under pressure to ship AI-powered features faster, smarter, and at scale. For many teams, that pressure leads to relying on external AI platforms, managed models, and third-party APIs instead of building everything from scratch in-house. At first, it feels like a win. Your team ships an AI-powered feature in weeks instead of months. No GPU clusters to manage. No models to train. No infrastructure to babysit.

Why leaders are reassessing the role of big tech in 2026

This session highlights a major strategic shift where sovereignty has moved from a technical detail to a top boardroom priority. The data reveals that 84% of leaders are concerned about geopolitical threats to their data access. 82% of respondents are ready to reassess their big tech partnerships specifically to regain data control. This shift is further evidenced by the 71% of decision-makers who now place sovereignty at the heart of their tech partner choices moving forward. The era of "sovereign-by-design" infrastructure is here. Are you ready to build for a more resilient future?

Beyond boundaries: How global collaboration defines AI in 2026

As we move through 2026, the global conversation around AI is shifting from simple adoption to a deeper focus on true openness and sovereignty. In this session from Civo Navigate India 2025, OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock explores the evolving state of AI openness and shares a significant milestone: India is now the world’s number one open-source contributing community.

Reference architecture: The blueprint for safe and scalable autonomy in SRE and DevOps

Everyone wants autonomous incident response. Most teams are building it wrong. ‍ The ultimate goal of autonomy in SRE and DevOps is the capacity of a system to not only detect incidents but to resolve them independently through intelligent self-regulation. However, true autonomy isn't born from automating random, isolated tasks. It requires a stable foundation: a Reference Architecture.

Zero crashes, zero compromises: inside the HAProxy security audit

An in-depth look at the recent audit by Almond ITSEF, validating HAProxy’s architectural resilience and defining the shared responsibility of secure configuration. Trust is the currency of the modern web. When you are the engine behind the world’s most demanding applications, "trust" isn't a marketing slogan—it’s an engineering requirement.

How to Avoid the SharePoint Preservation Hold Library PHL Storage Trap

Most executives assume that moving to Microsoft 365 simplifies cost control. Storage is “in the cloud”, usage is elastic, and governance is handled through policy. In reality, many organisations face a very different experience. They invest heavily in retention policies to meet legal and regulatory requirements, yet their SharePoint storage costs continue to rise year after year, even after large cleanup programs.