N-able Boosts Operational Efficiency with Automated Backup Ticketing in HaloPSA
New integration automates ticketing, reduces missed alerts, and improves response times for backup failures, strengthening business resilience.
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Why DevOps transformations fail in regulated industries, with Merge Ready's Matt Bailey
Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Matt Bailey, DevOps consultant and founder of Merge Ready. Matt shares lessons from helping large regulated organizations in finance, healthcare, and government transform their DevOps practices, and explains why DevOps is an outcome rather than a toolchain.
How this CEO keeps tripling while the industry reinvents itself
The tech industry is literally a different place every six months right now. Renen Hallak, CEO of @VASTData breaks down what that actually means for the people building inside it. Full Uplink episode is up now on our channel.
Policy-as-Code for Exemption Tickets
See how to configure Harness so that OPA policies are evaluated in your infrastructure.
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Proactive Monitoring for NetApp ONTAP
This whitepaper explores how proactive monitoring, using Microsoft SCOM enhanced with the NiCE NetApp ONTAP Management Pack, enables IT teams to detect issues early, optimize storage usage, and ensure reliable, predictable performance across both on-premises and hybrid-cloud infrastructures.
Error Budget in SRE: The Complete Guide (2026)
An error budget is the acceptable amount of unreliability permitted by your SLO over a defined time window. It is not a target. It is not a stretch goal. It is a hard ceiling that, when breached, should trigger a pre-agreed organizational response — feature freezes, postmortems, or infrastructure investment. The formula is blunt: Error Budget = 1 - SLO Target Error Budget (time) = (1 - SLO Target) × Window Duration For a 30-day window: That last number should make you uncomfortable.
Automation will reshape IT operations within three years, say a third of teams
SolarWinds research reveals growing confidence in automation, however concerns around accuracy, skills and oversight remain.
From Signal Corps to Space: Building Networks That Can't Fail with Troy MacDonald
What does it take to succeed in networking when complexity is constantly increasing, and change never slows down? In this episode of Next-Gen Network Heroes, host Bob Slevin sits down with Troy (David) MacDonald, a network engineer at Blue Origin and former U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer, to explore a career that spans from infantry beginnings to designing and managing large-scale, mission-critical networks.
Optimizing Team Strengths for Effective Operations
Most people think great network engineers are defined by technical expertise. This episode challenges that idea. Because what Troy McDonald shows is that the real differentiator isn’t just technical skill—it’s the ability to translate complexity into clarity. From military operations to enterprise networks, one lesson keeps showing up.
