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Almaden Supports IT Teams with the Windows 11 Upgrade

Microsoft has officially announced the end of support for Windows 10, effective October 14, 2025. This marks a significant transition point for enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) as they must migrate users to Windows 11 to maintain security compliance and ongoing support. However, the shift to Windows 11 is not simply a version change - it introduces new system requirements, updated security features, and performance expectations. For many organisations, the upgrade demands detailed asset analysis, hardware compatibility assessments, and proactive management of employee experience to avoid business disruption.
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AIOps for SAP: From Ground to Cloud

Anyone working in the SAP market in 2025 is aware of two big topics: migration to cloud-based ERP and the end of many long-used tools for managing SAP operations including Focused Run, Landscape Manager and Solution Manager. Both are impossible to ignore. Cloud-based ERP presents a new era of business software possibilities, and with it the opportunities and complexities of migration, transformation, and leveraging the elastic capacity and scalability of cloud-based designs. But right behind it, the question becomes "how are we going to run and manage this?"

Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World

Every day I seem to run into yet another post with someone solemnly opining that “writing code has never been the hardest part of software engineering. And hey, that’s smashing. As an engineer from the ops/infra/SRE side of the house, I feel like I’ve been saying this my whole career. (Is there anything more satisfying than being proven right in public? Not in my book.) So, which is it?

Why Your Loki Metrics Are Disappearing (And How to Fix It)

Grafana Loki is up and running, log ingestion looks healthy, and dashboards are rendering without issues. But when you query logs from a few weeks ago, the data's missing. This is a recurring problem for many teams using Loki in production: while the system handles short-term log visibility well, it often lacks the retention guarantees developers expect for historical analysis and incident review.

New in OTel: Auto-Instrument Your Apps with the OTel Injector

As distributed systems scale, maintaining manual instrumentation across services quickly becomes unsustainable. The OTel Injector addresses this by automatically attaching OpenTelemetry instrumentation to applications, no code changes needed. This blog covers how the OTel Injector works, how it integrates with Linux environments, and how to set it up for consistent telemetry across your stack.

Introducing the Cortex MCP Server

Cortex gives engineering teams full visibility and control over their services, from ownership and standards to service history and production readiness. Our goal is to help teams stay aligned and move faster so they are ready for whatever is ahead. The reality for any engineering team is that developers spend the most of their time in their IDE, not their IDP. And while developers love the context Cortex provides, they don’t love context switching.