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Black Hat USA 2025 recap

They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas—but this year, we couldn’t keep the latest in cybersecurity to ourselves. Though it wasn’t our first time attending Black Hat USA (we’re no strangers to the neon lights and desert heat), our anticipation was high when we landed at LAS. We couldn’t wait to get to the show, connect with security professionals, learn more about where the industry is headed, and put our own solutions to the test.

Better Automation. Easier Management. More Resilient IT. | Perforce Puppet

With Puppet, the power of IT automation empowers you. Too many companies use patchwork solutions for configuration management and IT automation, leading to unmanageable complexity and huge security risks. IT operators are on-call day and night to address security breaches, and toil for weeks manually provisioning servers. But no one would expect you to wash 10,000 dishes by hand — so why are IT operators expected to configure 10,000 servers manually?

Pulseway vs. NinjaOne: Why schools chose Pulseway

For a one-person IT team at a growing school, every minute counts. At American Heritage Charter School in Idaho, USA, IT professional Josh Siqueiros needed a solution that was more than just a monitoring tool. He needed a partner that could centralize his operations, save him time and provide rock-solid support. Josh ultimately chose Pulseway over NinjaOne for four key reasons that directly addressed his unique challenges. One of the biggest pain points for any IT professional is onboarding new devices.

Spectrum Delivers Bare-Metal RPC Infrastructure for Next-Gen Blockchain Operations

In today's fast-evolving web3 environment, infrastructure plays a decisive role in how decentralized applications (dApps) perform and scale. Spectrum, a global Remote Procedure Call (RPC) provider, is meeting this challenge head-on with a bare-metal infrastructure that spans continents and supports over one billion daily RPC requests across more than 175 blockchain networks.

How to Set Up and Manage LTO Tape Backup Systems That Last

Building a dependable LTO tape backup system starts with more than just the right hardware. From physical setup to ongoing tape management, each step plays a direct role in long-term data protection. Skipping planning or using mismatched components can lead to wasted time, damaged media, and incomplete backups. Hardware, software, labelling, storage, and tape rotation: This guide has you covered. It's all here, explained simply. We'll also look at what's usually missed. Testing. Without routine validation, your backups can fail silently. Keep your system running smoothly!

To Bitbucket from Jenkins: Enhancing Developer Experience

Atlassian’s Bitbucket Cloud has tightly integrated CI/CD capabilities via its Bitbucket Pipelines feature set. However, some of our Bitbucket Cloud and Bitbucket Data Center customers still use Jenkins for CI/CD. In this blog, I present a practical walkthrough of the benefits of Bitbucket Pipelines over a tool like Jenkins in the context of two key stats from our recent State of DevEx 2025 report.