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3 Signs You've Outgrown Scripts and Spreadsheets for Network Configs

In the early days of any IT operation, pragmatism rules. Most network teams start with what’s readily available—custom scripts, Excel spreadsheets, shared network drives, and tribal knowledge. It’s cost-effective and familiar. But as your organization grows, so does the complexity of your network. Devices multiply, configurations diversify, and the operational risk of keeping everything “stitched together” with manual methods increases exponentially.

Weaponized AI vs. AI Driven Security Posture Management: Why the Battle Starts in Misconfigurations

August 5, 2025, Las Vegas Black Hat 2025, Abnormal AI officially launched its Security Posture Management for Microsoft 365. This release marks a critical turning point. In an era where attackers weaponized AI to uncover and exploit misconfigured cloud environments at machine speed, reactive security simply can’t keep pace. Threat actors are now leveraging automated AI to scan systems, identify configuration drift, escalate privileges, and deploy zero‑day exploits in seconds.

Balancing Speed and Safety with Continuous Delivery

The benefits of continuous delivery are well known these days: rapid feedback, speed of innovation, reduced fault recovery time, and increased confidence in release processes. Along the same lines, those who release less frequently are likely to encounter more stress. Continuous delivery is a spectrum; it doesn’t have to mean blasting every commit to all production environments at once. So, how do we strike a balance between speed and safety?

Boosting Session Replay performance on iOS with View Renderer V2

After making Session Replay GA for Mobile, the adoption rose quickly and more feedback reached us. In less great news, our Apple SDK users reported that the performance overhead of Session Replay on older iOS devices made their apps unusable. So we went on the journey to find the culprit and found a solution that yielded 4-5x better performance in our benchmarks.

Size-capped telemetry storage with ClickHouse and Coroot

Cloud platforms make it incredibly easy to store data. Object storage feels endless, and block volumes can be resized anytime. That’s great, until you check the cost. In some cases, like financial transactions, storage costs are tiny compared to the value of the data. But observability is a different story. Logs, traces, and profiles can be extremely detailed and often take up more space than the actual business data. Yes, there are situations where logs need to be kept for compliance reasons.

Can External Data Predict System Failures?

Something critical just went down. Again. So you troubleshoot and find out everything's clean - logs, metrics, nothing seems out of the ordinary. You didn't think to look out the window, right? Let's rewind a couple of hours. The temperature spiked 15 degrees outside, the humidity was at 90% and a storm came out of nowhere. Meanwhile, your edge device is sitting in a box on a pole somewhere; it never stood a chance.
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AI realism (part one)

Emotions are running high about AI technologies. In this 2-parter, I do my best to make a rational case on the reality of AI, and how we can respond to it. This is part one; part two next week. We seem to be struggling to have pragmatic discussions about advancements in Artificial Intelligence. It's hard to hear calmer voices over the detractors and breathless enthusiasts. Today, I want to make a reasoned, evidence-based case for the potential of this technology, glance at present and future applications, and offer some practical examples for implementing AI within an organization.

Pinpointing Logon Duration Issues with Precision: Game-Changing Enhancements in MetrixInsight for Citrix VAD/DaaS

At GripMatix, we’re committed to giving IT teams deep, actionable visibility into their Citrix environments, going well beyond what’s available in native tools like Citrix Director or Monitor. With our latest update to the Citrix User Experience (UEX) Analyzer in MetrixInsight for Citrix VAD/DaaS, we’ve taken diagnostics and troubleshooting to the next level by introducing powerful new metrics and insights.