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What Key Features Matter Most When Evaluating Business Software

Selecting new software feels like a massive chore for growing companies. Your team spends hours looking at features and watching complex demonstrations. You want a tool that actually helps your business grow without adding confusion. The wrong choice wastes money and causes immense frustration for everyone. Finding the perfect fit requires a clear strategy from the very start. Focus on specific capabilities to make the best choice for your unique workflows.

We won't train on your data is not a security architecture

Every enterprise contract I’ve signed in the last two years has the same clause. “Vendor will not use Customer Data to train machine learning models.” Sometimes it’s a paragraph. Sometimes it’s a whole section. The language varies but the intent is identical: don’t feed our production data into your AI. I get it. I sign the same clause as a vendor. But here’s what’s been bothering me: that clause is a promise, not an architecture.

How Teams Work Faster with Puppet AI

Can AI actually improve infrastructure operations? Without sacrificing control? In this webinar, see how teams use Puppet AI to understand infrastructure with natural language, reduce operational effort, and move from insight to action faster—all within trusted automation workflows. Watch a live demo of detecting and mitigating a real-world vulnerability, and learn how context-aware AI helps teams scale safely with built-in governance.

Store and search high-volume logs with ClickHouse and Datadog

As teams scale AI and agentic workloads, log volumes can grow fast. That growth can force teams into a difficult trade-off: Keep logs searchable in their existing workflows, or store them cost-effectively for longer periods. For teams that rely on logs during incident response, compliance reviews, and long-running investigations, losing either affordability or searchability can slow down troubleshooting. Datadog and ClickHouse are partnering to help remove that trade-off.

What is Automated Patch Management?

Learn why manual patch management creates unnecessary risk for IT teams and how automated patch management helps organizations improve security, compliance, and operational efficiency. Discover how automation eliminates repetitive tasks, reduces human error, prioritizes critical vulnerabilities, and accelerates patch deployment across the entire IT environment.

How Managed Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Supports Smarter Device Refresh Decisions

Let’s face it, refreshing devices used to be a guessing game. IT teams would swap out laptops and desktops on a fixed schedule, hoping to keep everyone happy and productive. But in today’s hybrid, cloud-first world, that old approach just doesn’t work. Employees expect seamless experience, and businesses can’t afford to waste money on unnecessary upgrades or risk productivity dips from outdated tech. That’s where Digital Employee Experience (DEX) comes in.

Graviton5 in Production at Honeycomb: Per-service Results From the m8g to m9g Migration

This is the fourth installment in the Graviton retrospective series we've been writing since 2021. The methodology is the same one I always reach for: hold the workload constant, run both generations on the same Kubernetes namespace concurrently, and let the per-pod numbers speak.

What Is Enterprise Service Management (ESM)? Explained

Enterprise service management (ESM) applies the proven model of IT service management, catalogs, workflows, self-service, and SLAs, to the whole business: HR, facilities, finance, and more. Here is what it is and how it works. What is enterprise service management, and how is it different from ITSM? In this explainer we define ESM, show how it works across departments, clarify how it builds on IT service management, and cover the mistake most teams make: copying IT ticket forms instead of orchestrating work across teams.