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We are thrilled to announce that Almaden has been certified by Great Place to Work (GPTW) for the third year in a row! This achievement is more than just an award—it’s a true celebration of the culture we’ve built, one that prioritizes the well-being and satisfaction of all our team members. In this article, we want to share what this certification means to us and how our employees‘ feedback highlights what makes Almaden such a special place to work.

The telecom industry has undergone a massive transformation due to increasing demand for high-speed connectivity, next-generation network infrastructure, and seamless service delivery. To keep up with this complexity, telecom service providers rely on operational support systems—a suite of specialized software solutions designed to manage, monitor, and optimize networks and services.

We’ve rolled out a small update to the StatusGator iframe embed feature! Now, when you embed your status page on your website or app, it can include a link to your full StatusGator status page — giving your users a simple way to view detailed information about outages. And there’s more: If you’ve uploaded a favicon in your Status page settings, it will now appear next to the link in the iframe.

The 17th century saw the onset of the Scientific Revolution. It was a time of knowledge explosion. During this time, scientific practices were still evolving, with no universally accepted protocols for data collection and analysis. Individuals documented any observation, resulting in the collection of massive amounts of information, but much of it was hard to leverage to draw useful conclusions. The development of the scientific method provided a common approach to capturing and analyzing data.

One of my favourite authors, Douglas Adams, once said that “we are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” Whilst Adams is right about a lot of things, he got this one wrong – at least when it comes to infrastructure. As our Infra Masters 2025 event demonstrated, infrastructure is the technology that makes everything work – from managing a satellite in outer space, to, say, livestreaming an event.