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Today’s software testing trends show the growing demand for more efficient and automated API testing. Manual testing is not only time-intensive for internal testing teams, it can also lead to poor customer experiences. When manual testing processes cannot proactively discover issues, your customers may inevitably be the ones finding them. Many of the current test automation solutions today focus on the UI, while most API-level testing is still done manually.

For most of the last decade, the direction of cloud strategy was clear: standardize, consolidate, and reduce sprawl. Engineering teams worked to pick a primary cloud, reduce vendor dependencies, and simplify their stacks. FinOps teams unwound years of fragmentation. Platform teams built guardrails to make sure it didn’t happen again. Then AI arrived, and it’s a fundamentally different class of workload. AI demands specialized hardware and, increasingly, diverging providers.

Microsoft has announced the General Availability (GA) of SQL Server 2025 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, starting with the CU1 release. This milestone allows enterprises to deploy mission-critical workloads on our latest Long Term Support release, benefiting from predictable stability and up-to-date kernels.

As Event Intelligence Solutions (EIS) move from early adoption to operational necessity, many enterprises are realizing that success depends on more than selecting the right technology. For Banking and Financial Services organizations, effective adoption requires a clear strategy, disciplined execution and a strong alignment to business priorities and regulatory demands and not least, customer expectations.

SD-WAN with Megaport SDCI is now generally available. Here’s how you can use them to optimize your network’s middle mile. Building on our successful collaboration with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (formerly Viptela) and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual, Megaport is thrilled to announce the general availability of our integration with Cisco Meraki.