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VirtualMetric DataStream + Google SecOps Integration: Pre-Ingest UDM Normalization at Scale

Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle) is widely used for large-scale security analytics, long-term telemetry retention, and detection across diverse environments. Its Unified Data Model (UDM) enables correlation across sources and supports analytics that operate over long time horizons. To take full advantage of these capabilities, security data must arrive in a consistent and well-structured UDM format. In practice, this is rarely the case.

Kubex and Tangoe Partner to Deliver Unified Cloud, Kubernetes, and FinOps Optimization

Enterprises operating at cloud scale today face a growing reality: managing infrastructure performance and cost in silos no longer works. Kubernetes, multi cloud environments, and GPU accelerated workloads deliver immense agility and capability, but they also introduce complexity that outpaces traditional monitoring and cost governance approaches.

Upsun's AI story: the 5% path from pilots to production value at scale

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: most companies do not have an AI problem. They have a delivery problem wearing an AI costume. MIT’s Project NANDA research has been widely cited for a brutal headline statistic: roughly 95% of corporate generative AI pilots fail to produce measurable business impact or returns, while only about 5% break through to meaningful outcomes. (Yahoo Finance) The models are impressive. The demos are dazzling. The budgets are real.

Intelligent FinOps: AI-Informed, AI-Enabled

AI is the new frontier for FinOps maturity. It introduces fresh spend patterns and new opportunities for value. As GPUs, inference, and retraining reshape costs, FinOps maturity grows through visibility, forecasting, and shared mindset about how these workloads drive business impact. In this 2025 post, I gave my guidelines for implementing AI tagging to give business context and clarity to vague AI invoices. Now, I’m sharing the next level up: how to drive FinOps in AI with AI.

From Chaos To Clarity: How Forcepoint Scaled FinOps Across The Organization

When Anthony Leung talks about FinOps, he’s speaking from operating at real scale — not theory. As VP of Engineering Platforms and Security Research at Forcepoint, he led a transformation that cut cloud spend in half while improving availability, and built a culture where engineers own their economics.

(Tech Talk) Shipping with Context Knowledge Graphs as the Backbone of AI-First Software Delivery

Knowledge graphs are essential to solving the context bottleneck in AI-First software delivery, which occurs because workflows, policies, and dependencies are siloed and invisible to AI agents. In this Tech Talk, Prateek Mittal ((Product Director of AI Core and Data Platform at Harness)) discusses the key concepts: Knowledge Graphs vs. Observability: Observability tells you "what is happening," while knowledge graphs tell you "what does that mean" by modeling structured relationships. They work together to link live signals to affected services or SLAs.