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What is MRO? Maintenance, Repair, and Operations Explained

MRO stands for maintenance, repair, and operations. It refers to the activities, supplies, and services that keep equipment, facilities, and infrastructure running safely and efficiently. Every industry that relies on physical assets depends on MRO, whether that means replacing a worn bearing on a production line, restocking safety gloves in a warehouse, or servicing an HVAC system in a hospital.

Why Authorization Management in Microsoft Dynamics Is a Security Gap Most IT Teams Overlook

Enterprise security strategies tend to focus on perimeter defense. Firewalls, endpoint protection, email filtering and network segmentation receive the bulk of attention and budget. Those investments are justified. But they create a blind spot in environments where the real risk sits inside the system, not outside it. Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Business Central are used by thousands of organizations to manage finance, procurement, inventory and customer data. The users who access those systems every day have permissions that determine what they can see, change, approve and export.

OVHcloud is now available on Aiven

At Aiven, we believe that you should have the freedom to deploy your data wherever your business needs it to be. Whether you are optimizing for performance, compliance, or regional proximity, our goal is to ensure that the underlying infrastructure supports your innovation without friction. Today, we are excited to expand those choices by officially announcing that OVHcloud is now available as a supported infrastructure provider for Aiven customers.

ROAS Isn't Profit in B2B SaaS: How to Measure Performance Marketing the Right Way

A lot of B2B SaaS teams love to flex a clean 3-5x ROAS. It looks sharp in a dashboard, easy to share in a Slack channel, and even easier to celebrate. But behind that number, the reality can feel very different. Revenue tied to ad spend tells only a small part of the story. This is especially true in a business where sales cycles stretch, costs stack up, and value unfolds over time. Here's the uncomfortable truth: strong ROAS can sit right next to weak unit economics.

How to Build Reliable Data Collection Workflows

When your business depends on form data, even small issues can turn into big problems. Missing submissions, incomplete responses, or delayed updates can break your workflow without you even noticing. As your operations grow, these gaps become harder to track and fix. Let's break down how to build a data collection workflow that stays reliable as you scale.

Aiven for ClickHouse 25.8 LTS: Vector Search GA, Projections, Correlated Subqueries, and Faster Queries

Vector Search GA & SQL Enhancements. Aiven for ClickHouse 25.8 is now available as an Early Availability. This Long-Term Support release introduces lightweight projections as secondary indexes, general availability of vector search with binary quantization, correlated subqueries for broader SQL compatibility, lightweight updates for MergeTree tables, and significant performance and data lakehouse improvements.

The Future of Kafka and Steaming

Join Jeff Mery and Josep Prat as they discuss the future of Kafka and Streaming. In this deep dive, we break down the architectural shifts and hidden "taxes" currently hitting the data streaming ecosystem—and how to engineer your way out of them. In this video, you’ll see: The "Streaming Tax" Breakdown: A transparent look at how 3x replication, inter-AZ egress, and eCKU markups are inflating your TCO by up to 500%.

Telegraf Enterprise Beta is Now Available: Centralized Control for Telegraf at Scale

Telegraf is incredibly good at what it does: collecting metrics, logs, and events from just about anywhere and sending them wherever you need. But once Telegraf becomes part of your production telemetry pipeline, spread across environments, teams, regions, and edge locations, the hard part isn’t installing agents; it’s operating them. Configs drift. “Temporary” overrides linger. Rolling out changes across hundreds (or thousands) of agents becomes a careful, manual process.

The Four Factors of Production-Ready PostgreSQL

Discover how Aiven makes the 4 factors of production-ready PostgreSQL easy A database isn't production-ready just because your application can query it. To be truly ready for production, your PostgreSQL setup must be able to survive node failures, block unauthorized network access, handle sudden connection spikes without crashing, and tell you exactly why a query is running slow. Let’s explore these four factors and how Aiven puts being production-ready on easy mode.

Beyond the Data Lake: Leading Cross-Domain Operational Intelligence

As we wrap up RSAC, one theme that repeatedly emerged in conversations with security leaders is that the modern enterprise has reached a critical inflection point where the velocity of machine-generated telemetry has outpaced the capacity of traditional architectures. This trend requires an approach that moves beyond the storage of information to the activation of it in ways that don’t simply exacerbate alert fatigue.