ASHRAE provides detailed recommendations for data center environmental conditions through its Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments. These guidelines specify temperature and humidity ranges that ensure the optimal performance and longevity of IT equipment. The latest guidelines define four classes (A1 to A4) for allowable and recommended temperature ranges, with the recommended range for Class A1 being 18°C to 27°C (64.4°F to 80.6°F).

The engineering macro-climate is in crisis. Market dynamics have put increased pressure on teams to ship faster in order to stay competitive, while budgets are under significant scrutiny. At the same time, the advent of new tools and architectures promising high-velocity, collaborative development increasingly lack the implementation structure needed to preserve their benefits. As a result, onboarding is stalling out, incidents are up, and deployments are down.

If you live and breathe FinOps in your daily work life, prepare to get excited. This month, we’ve got plenty to look forward to: Read on for the details!

At CloudZero, we pride ourselves on developing a platform that provides an exceptional and engaging user experience across DevOps, Engineering, and Finance organizations. This month, we’re rolling out many enhancements that simplify business-critical processes across the platform, from user management to anomaly detection and remediation to integration setup and maintenance.

We are thrilled to unveil the latest addition to the Netdata platform: the Dynamic Configuration Manager. This powerful new feature revolutionizes how you manage your monitoring and alerting configurations, making it easier and more efficient than ever before.

Taloflow, a Y Combinator W21-batch company, has raised $1.3 million in funding. This investment comes from Wonder Ventures, First Check Ventures, and many notable founders, including the founders of PEER 1, Sacra, and Hootsuite, who share our vision for software vendor selection. Today also marks the launch of our collaborative AI notebook – two years in the making – which automates the research to evaluate tech vendor capabilities for any use case in dozens of B2B categories.

In the next edition of our interview series that focuses on senior players in the global tech arena, we welcome Harsha Patil an Engineering Manager overseeing cloud compute infrastructure at an E-commerce company in California, USA. We will explore his career development, offer tips for aspiring engineers, and discuss the key lessons he has learned along the way in this feature.

We are thrilled to announce that Turbo360 is now available in the Azure Marketplace. This significant milestone underscores our commitment to helping you maximize your ROI on Azure investments. Turbo360 is an advanced Cloud Management platform designed to empower Azure users with significant Cost savings and Infra Monitoring capabilities for complex Azure Environments.

Fast scaling is a pressing business need in many B2C industries like media distribution, streaming, and gaming. Spot by NetApp is proud to offer the fastest scaling on earth with its enhanced Ocean controller.