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Do you know how your system will respond when major outages strike? Disaster Recovery Testing safely simulates real catastrophic failures across your entire system. You can centrally and easily run zone, region, and datacenter-scale reliability tests across your entire organization simultaneously for disaster recovery, business continuity, compliance verification, and more. With Disaster Recovery Testing, tests that used to take engineering-months and dozens of experts can be done safely and securely in hours by a single person.

Viktor Kessler is both co-founder of Vakamo, a company specialising in governance for Iceberg, and a major contributor to Lakekeeper, an open-source Iceberg REST catalog. His contributions to the Iceberg aren’t limited to pull requests: Viktor is also the organiser of the Apache Iceberg Meetup Europe and hosted some fantastic events in 2025 that brought the Iceberg community together all over Europe from Dublin to Vilnius.

Every CIO is asking the same question: Am I next? We’ve seen it across cloud providers, carriers, and global platforms—organizations with enormous scale and investment still experience public, business-impacting outages. The risk isn’t lack of effort. It’s the growing gap between AI-driven complexity and the ability to see, understand, and resolve issues fast enough to protect availability commitments.

A great way to boost IT team morale is to solicit feedback from users, because that appreciation can go a long way!

Meet Skylar Advisor, bringing trusted and verifiable guidance to IT operations by connecting real time observability with your data and knowledge. Built AI native, it helps teams cut through alert floods, understand what matters most and why, and take the next best steps with confidence. Every recommendation is evidence backed and traceable to the exact data and sources used, so guidance is clear, explainable, and defensible when the stakes are high.