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Webinar Recap: Building The Finance Function For The Future

Women leaders from CloudZero, Campfire, and Preql AI sat down to talk about what it actually takes to modernize finance in 2026 — AI spend, smarter tooling, and the skills that matter now for finance practitioners and executives looking to manage cloud and AI spend in a rapidly changing and unpredictable financial environment. On March 19, 2026, CloudZero and Campfire co-hosted a virtual panel in honor of International Women’s Month, called Building the Finance Function for the Future.

Real-Time Data: The Engine of Efficient, Sustainable Data Centers

Imagine knowing every detail of your data center as it happens. Real-time data makes this possible. You can monitor systems, track performance, and adjust resources on the fly. This proactive approach leads to smoother operations and reduced downtime. By constantly having up-to-date information, you can maintain peak efficiency in your facility. Such insights allow you to optimize cooling and power use, which are crucial to keeping costs down.

The Future of UK Digital Infrastructure | Pulsant CEO Rob Coupland Interview

In the latest Platform Insight interview, Pulsant CEO Rob Coupland discusses Pulsant’s evolution into the only truly UK‑wide, interconnected data centre platform. The conversation with Nicola Hayes of @PlatformMarketsGroup explores the growing momentum behind edge and sovereign infrastructure, and why real‑world enterprise demand is shaping the next phase of AI. If you want to understand where the UK digital infrastructure landscape is heading – and why regional platforms matter more than ever – this is a must‑watch.

CI Pipeline Optimization Guide for Platform Engineering Leaders | Harness Blog

Definition: CI pipeline optimization is the practice of reducing build and test time and the cost per build by running only what matters, reusing unchanged components, and enforcing standardized governance. Platform teams are wasting thousands of hours every year because their pipelines aren't working right. Developers wait 45 minutes for builds. Jenkins consumes 20% of your team's capacity on maintenance.

Architecting MCP for AI Agents: Lessons from Our Redesign | Harness Blog

-- Key Takeaways: The Harness MCP server is an MCP-compatible interface that lets AI agents discover, query, and act on Harness resources across CI/CD, GitOps, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Security Testing, Resilience Testing, Internal Developer Portal, and more. -- The first wave of MCP servers followed a natural pattern: take every API endpoint, wrap it in a tool definition, and expose it to the LLM.

The Great Cloud Repatriation: Why UK Businesses Are Bringing Data Home

More UK organisations are treating cloud location as a governance risk decision, because incidents and audits expose questions around jurisdiction, access and evidence. Recent research found that 87% of respondents plan to partially or fully move workloads away from the public cloud over the next two years, with 54% considering private cloud, 38% exploring greater reliance on their own data centres, and 36% assessing colocation.

Network Documentation: Excel vs. DCIM Software

Spreadsheets and Visio diagrams may work in small, static environments, but they cannot maintain accurate, real-time records at the port level, track relationships between assets, or support the pace of change in modern operations. DCIM software is purpose-built for those demands. In this blog post, we'll cover what network documentation actually requires, where Excel and Visio fall short, and how DCIM software addresses those gaps.

The Art of Prompting in AI Test Automation | Harness Blog

E2E Testing Has a New Bottleneck, and It's Not the Code End-to-end (E2E) testing has always been the hardest part of a QA strategy. You're simulating real users, navigating real flows, validating real outcomes across browsers, environments, and data states that never hold still. Traditional test automation tackled this with scripts: rigid, deterministic sequences tied to element selectors and hard-coded values. They worked until the UI changed. Or the data changed.