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Two years ago, a power outage knocked a Dropbox data center offline. It wasn’t just any data center. It was the only one where Dropbox hosted Grafana Loki, meaning engineers couldn’t access their log data. “We had considered a data center outage when we were rolling out Loki, but it had just never risen up in priority enough to get put into multiple data centers,” said Chris Hodges, an infrastructure software engineer at the cloud storage company.

Valencia CF has reached an agreement with Internxt, where the Valencian technology company, specialized in cloud storage services, becomes the Club's Official Cloud Provider and Sponsor. With this move, the startup strengthens its presence and commitment to its homeland, Valencia. Founded in 1919, Valencia CF has won six La Liga titles, eight Copa del Rey titles, three UEFA Cups, two UEFA Super Cups, among others, thus becoming one of the most relevant elite football clubs in the world.

Application performance is critical to user experience and business success. When an application starts slowing down, identifying the root cause isn’t always straightforward. For developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools provide real-time visibility into how applications behave under load.

Packet loss is likely a familiar issue if you’ve managed networks susceptible to slower network speeds, degraded data quality, or increased latency. It directly impacts network operations and digital experiences, which is why we recommend that you take the time to understand and prevent it.

As organizations scale their infrastructure, monitoring systems can become a source of noise rather than insight. A clean, straightforward set of alerts for a handful of services can quickly spiral into a mess of overlapping thresholds, redundant triggers, and inconsequential notifications across hundreds (or thousands) of components. This flood of notifications can slow response times, overwhelm engineers, and increase the chance of overlooking critical problems.

david.arrowsmith • June 27, 2025 IT Operations (ITOps) managers need to ensure always-on availability across a more complex and hybrid ecosystem than ever before. Event storms, patchwork toolchains and slow root cause analysis (RCA) impede responsiveness and undermine the high digital performance customers demand. The Event Intelligence and Service Observability Platform from Interlink Software addresses this.

As Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) managing global infrastructure, we face unique challenges when serving users in mainland China. The Great Firewall of China creates a complex web of technical obstacles that can render even the most robust international websites slow, unreliable, or completely inaccessible to Chinese users.

We are proud to announce a significant advancement in our commitment to serving the US federal market – Nexthink is now listed as “In Process” in the FedRAMP marketplace. To achieve this, we have been working closely with our federal consultant Quzara, to complete a rigorous security assessment. Through this process, we're implementing hundreds of required controls to meet the highest standards of cloud security.

Many companies are rapidly adopting cloud-native computing services, like containers, microservices, and serverless computing. Unlike monolithic applications, these technologies rely on distributed architectures. Whether you are running them in the cloud, on-premises, or both, distributed systems consist of thousands or millions of processes and components. The challenge now is to make these complex systems’ inner workings visible, controllable, and improvable.