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Why Branding Still Matters in the Age of DevOps and SaaS Automation

In a landscape dominated by automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability dashboards, branding can feel... secondary. After all, if your platform ships fast, scales reliably, and integrates with everything - why should anyone care what it looks or sounds like? The answer is simple: they do.

Prevent Non-Person Accounts (NPA) Expiration Outages with Resolve

Expired non-person accounts can silently break system integrations and cause major outages—often overnight. In this video, see how Resolve automates the detection and extension of non-person account expirations across systems. Learn how to eliminate manual tracking, reduce risk, and keep your critical services running smoothly.

IT Task Automation: Best Practices and Use Cases for IT Management with Pandora FMS

IT teams must handle a large number of tasks on a daily basis. Many of these tasks, while essential, are repetitive: resetting passwords, rebooting servers, monitoring logs for errors, applying patches… When performed manually, they can overwhelm technical staff and compromise operational efficiency. IT automation has emerged as the answer to this challenge. It involves using scripts and specialized tools to automatically execute these and other tasks that previously required human intervention.

Demo: Running a Patch Job with Puppet Advanced Patching

With Puppet, patching is faster and easier than ever. Watch this video to learn how to set up and run a patch job with Advanced Patching in Puppet Enterprise Advanced. Puppet's Barr Iserloth and Liam Sexton cover activating Advanced Patching, creating a patch group, and running a patch job from the Puppet Enterprise console. Highlights include the easy-to-use patching GUI, custom patch groups for cross-OS patching, streamlined scheduling that obeys your defined maintenance and blackout windows, and reporting that shows you where each patch was applied.

Automating High CPU Utilization Remediation with Resolve

High CPU utilization alerts can overwhelm IT teams and disrupt user productivity—especially in virtualized environments. In this video, see how Resolve automates the end-to-end remediation process for sustained CPU spikes. From detecting alerts and creating incidents to gathering host data, verifying VM configurations, and dynamically adding vCPUs—watch how Resolve eliminates manual effort and speeds up incident resolution.

IT Process Improvement Is Great... If You Can Find Someone to Build It

IT leaders know the value of process improvement. Smoother onboarding, faster incident resolution, streamlined change management, etc. It’s not for lack of ideas that IT teams fall short; it’s almost always a lack of bandwidth. Because of that, most process improvement efforts stall before they scale. Great ideas get captured in diagrams, Confluence pages, and strategy decks, but they rarely make it into production. Why?

Key Advantages of Integrating AI Into Everyday Processes

Artificial intelligence isn't just a futuristic concept, it's actively transforming how we work, think, and solve problems today. From startups to global enterprises, businesses are realizing that integrating AI into daily operations can deliver powerful, tangible benefits. For every $1 organizations invest in generative AI, they're seeing an average return of $3.70.

Climbing the Security Pyramid: From Awareness to Automation with AI and Observability

Modern threats don't wait. They move fast, hide deep, and often strike without warning. That's why old-school security isn't enough anymore. You need more than firewalls and login rules. You need layers. You need clarity. And most of all, you need speed. This is where the security pyramid comes in. It shows how smart security stacks-from the ground up. It starts with awareness and ends with advanced tools like automation and AI. In this article, we'll break it down step by step-and show how observability and automation help you climb it.

The Ethics of AI in Business and Content Creation

As AI tools become everyday instruments in business and content creation, the ethics surrounding their use can no longer be ignored. From authorship and originality to bias and transparency, ethical concerns must be addressed head-on to ensure trust and integrity in the digital age. In this article, we explore the ethical dimensions of AI in business and content creation-and what responsible use looks like in 2025.

Visualize Your Puppet Data in Splunk, Datadog & More [Demo]

Get more from your Puppet data and easily visualize events in your favorite observability tool. The Observability Data Connector in Puppet Enterprise Advanced empowers DevSecOps teams with real-time insights by exporting critical data to popular observability tools. It gives DevOps teams access to the real-time data they need to plan, adapt, minimize downtime, and support system reliability and compliance.