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If you moved to the cloud hoping for cost savings and scalability only to find that your cloud costs are ballooning, your cloud performance isn’t up to snuff, or you’re always struggling to align compliance regulations with your cloud deployment, it might be time to look into cloud repatriation as an alternative to public cloud infrastructure. Moving anything from public cloud to private cloud or on-prem infrastructure this year?

Long gone are the days of manually configuring your cloud storage to meet customers' growing needs and demands. Now, businesses can enjoy a more flexible, stable, efficient, and secure means of storing data with various cloud architectures and storage methods. From S3 storage to cloud storage for teams, the tech world has never been so promising for companies to manage their data.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic buzzword. It’s here, it’s growing, and it’s reshaping industries across the board. While AI often evokes images of humanoid robots and sci-fi scenarios, its practical applications, especially in IT, are far more grounded and transformative. This blog explores how AI has evolved, the types of AI in use today, and how it can bring tangible benefits to IT teams.

This series of blogs, Monthly Module Mondays, started on April Fool’s Day 2024 discussing how to Inventory and remediate Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) has now reached the 10th installment showcasing a couple of modules to take stock of what services are running on your systems.

Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CFEngine 3.25.0! The code word for this release is auditability. Being a non-LTS (not supported) release, this release allows users to test the new functionality we’ve been working on before it arrives in an LTS release ~1 year from now.

Ah, 2024. The year we promised ourselves we’d finally “work smarter, not harder.” And yet, here we are, looking back at a year filled with reworked errors, late-night firefighting, and a lot of “this could have been avoided.” Let’s relive the chaotic glory of the year that wasn’t and figure out how 2025 can be the year that is.

In 2024, IT automation continued to evolve, introducing innovative solutions that enhanced operational efficiency and transformed business processes.