In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the demand for skilled professionals in the data centre industry has never been higher. And it's not just in our sector, sourcing technical talent and strategies to attract and retain them continues to be an issue in most sectors as a recent Deloitte article highlighted.

A recent Kubernetes Adoption Report showed that 68% of surveyed IT professionals adopted containers more during the pandemic. Among their goals were accelerating deployment cycles, increasing automation, reducing IT costs, and developing and testing artificial intelligence (AI) applications. But, what role does container technology play in this? This guide shares what containers are, how container orchestration works, and more.

In today's cloud-centric landscape, managing and optimizing cloud resources efficiently is paramount for cloud engineers striving to balance performance and cost-effectiveness. By leveraging solutions like Tines and Elastic, cloud engineering teams can streamline operations and drive significant cost savings while maintaining optimal performance.

SharePoint Online is a robust cloud-based service offered by Microsoft as part of the Office 365 suite. It enables organizations to create websites for information sharing, document management, and collaboration at scale, serving everything from small projects to enterprise-level deployments. As organizations increasingly shift to remote work environments, the ability to securely manage and collaborate on content has become crucial.

As a recovering practitioner, one of the things I was always less than thrilled to do was patching. I dreaded having to run updates, ensure everything was configured correctly, and finding windows of time to reboot without knocking an application offline. Just like your cloud workloads — everything changes when it has to be done at scale. Kubernetes has always been built around the DevOps concepts of rapid development, delivery, and iteration.

Jonny Harris is a WordPress core contributor and committer based in the UK and a member of the WordPress Performance Initiative. This group teams up with Google and Blackfire to optimize the performance of the PHP framework that powers an estimated 43% of the world’s applications. Jonny has been coding with WordPress since 2006 when, at the age of 16, he wanted to start blogging. He gave WordPress a try as it was then and still is today, the leading open-source blogging framework.

Clouds, be they private or public, surprisingly remain one of the most DIY-favouring markets. Perhaps due to the nebulous and increasingly powerful technologies, a series of myths, or even unnecessary egos, the majority of non-tech-centric enterprises (meaning, companies whose primary business scope rests outside the realm of IT software and hardware) still try to build and nurture in-house cloud management teams, without considering outsourcing even part of their workload.

Cloud cost management- Anomaly detection CloudSpend’s Zia framework, powered by AI, is designed to detect any unexpected spikes or irregularities in your cloud expenses. The Zia Anomaly Report aids in optimizing your cloud bills and protecting your cloud infrastructure from unforeseen issues. You have the option to share anomalies with your team through CSV, PDF, or email formats.

Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed application framework designed to run big data workloads at a much faster rate than Hadoop and with fewer resources. Spark leverages in-memory and local disk caching, along with Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed application framework designed to run big data workloads at a much faster rate than Hadoop and with fewer resources.