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Seamless Connectivity: Dynamic Colocation Explained

In today's fast-paced, ever-evolving digital landscape, businesses need flexible, scalable solutions to manage and deploy applications across multiple regions. With constant fluctuations in demand, the concept of colocation has evolved from a simple server-renting model to an advanced digital strategy that promotes connectivity, reliability, and growth. This article explores the modern concept of dynamic colocation, a hyperconnected model that empowers businesses to meet evolving demands with ease and agility.

Identify and Fix SQL Server Backup Errors

Properly configured and easily locatable SQL Server backups are critical to maintaining data integrity and business continuity. However, missing or mislabeled backup files can complicate recovery processes, potentially resulting in data loss or extended downtime during restoration efforts. In this article, we’ll review why the backup process may fail, provide options for locating missing backups, and suggest several ways to address backup history challenges proactively.

The AI Time Bomb: How Martech Can Prepare For Surging OpEx Costs

For the past two years, AI enthusiasts have been treated to a nonstop procession of lightspeed innovations. ChatGPT rang the era in with a bang; millions of blogs, emails, trivia questions, and sonnets later, Microsoft etched the writing on the wall with its $10 billion investment in OpenAI, ChatGPT’s progenitor. Since then, companies from Alphabet to Zoom have scrambled to somehow, some way, integrate AI into their core offerings.

Snowflake Vs. Databricks: Which Data Cloud Platform Should You Use Now?

Snowflake and Databricks are both robust data platforms. Both are built for speed, scale, and cloud-native applications. They also prioritize efficiency and adherence to strict data protection protocols. Yet each adopts a distinct approach and features suited to its architecture and various use cases. It is these differences that can make all the difference in the way your data is processed, analyzed, reported, and more.

What is IoT device management?

IoT device management refers to processes or practices used to deploy, monitor and maintain IoT devices. As organizations scale up their IoT efforts, a solid device management approach is essential to running a secure, streamlined fleet of devices. The proliferation of connected devices worldwide (projected to reach 18.8 billion in 2024) means that IoT device management is growing more complex, a reality that has not gone unnoticed by bad actors.

Heroku Monitoring Add-ons 2025 with Hosted Graphite

Monitoring performance of Heroku applications helps improve user experience. This blog post covers Heroku monitoring add-ons and explores why Hosted Graphite is the best choice in 2025. We'll discuss the benefits and setup process of the Hosted Graphite add-on. We'll also discuss future trends in Heroku monitoring.

Binary Provenance, SBOMs and the Software Supply Chain for Humans

“What’s really running in prod?” Every engineer will hear these immortal words on a long enough timeline (or career). It might be because a new security zero day was dropped, alerts fired from the depths of a vast microservice architecture, or you might just be looking to know what commit was actually tested. Either way, it often comes with the promise of a stressful day.