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Drive Public Sector Efficiencies of Scale with Splunk and AWS

Today’s public sector organizations are tasked with delivering a staggering amount of technology capabilities to support a growing set of digital services, meet IT modernization goals, and continue to protect against a wide range of attack vectors. Cloud technology adoption has played a significant role in ensuring that ongoing IT modernization not only aligns with each organization’s mission-strategic capabilities but also enables efficiencies of scale.

Myth #5 of Kubernetes Resource Optimization: Spark Dynamic Allocation

In this blog series we’re examining the Five Myths of Kubernetes Resource Optimization. The fifth and final myth in this series relates to another common assumption of many Kubernetes users: Dynamic Allocation for Apache Spark applications automatically prevents Spark from overprovisioning resources while improving workload utilization levels.

13: Effective Resource Optimization and Kubernetes Insights with Daniele Polencic

Kubernetes, container resources, request and limits, sizing, the impact of getting things wrong, CPU limits, JVMs, HPA and VPA, does Karpenter fix the request and limit problem? We’ve got a great episode for you today! Thanks for joining us on Densify Talks! We welcome Daniele Polencic, one of the lead instructors at LearnK8s, which specializes in containers and Kubernetes technologies.

Observo AI Supercharges Google SecOps for Smarter Security

Security teams love the power of Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle)—fast detection, scalable infrastructure, and native integration across Google Cloud. But there’s a challenge most organizations still struggle with: the cost, complexity, and chaos of raw telemetry data. Security data doubles every 2-3 years. Without control and context, even the best SIEM platforms can be overwhelmed with noise. That’s where Observo AI comes in.

Prometheus and CloudWatch Integration for AWS Metric Collection

The Prometheus CloudWatch exporter pulls AWS CloudWatch metrics into your Prometheus setup, giving you a unified view of your infrastructure alongside application metrics. If you're already running Prometheus and need visibility into AWS services like EC2, RDS, or Lambda, this exporter handles the integration without forcing you to switch monitoring stacks.

Common Drupal deployment pitfalls and how cloud automation fixes them

Deploying a Drupal 10 or Drupal 11 application can feel like walking through a minefield of potential problems. Even a well-built Drupal site can stumble during deployment due to a few common pitfalls. For IT managers and technical project leads, understanding these pitfalls—and how cloud automation can solve them—means fewer late-night emergencies and smoother launches.

Elastic Cloud Serverless now generally available on Microsoft Azure

Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions — without managing infrastructure. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure — now available in the EastUS region. Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions without managing infrastructure.

Achieving Full Visibility: Modern Monitoring for Distributed Cloud Applications

Today’s applications are hybrid, cloud-centric, service-oriented, API-dependent, and geographically distributed. The monitoring practices we relied on for decades are no longer sufficient. It is critical to monitor all the internet-centric dependencies, connectivity, and cloud application components – and to do so from the user’s perspective so IT operations teams can achieve digital resilience and deliver performance. This session will cover DEM, APM, and IPM and how they can work together to pinpoint issues before they occur, so users receive a great digital experience.

Pepperdata Resource Optimization for Data Workloads on Kubernetes

Struggling with underutilized Kubernetes resources or rising cloud costs? Learn how Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer delivers real-time, automated resource optimization for Kubernetes and Amazon EMR workloads—helping teams reduce costs and boost performance without manual tuning. In this video, discover how Pepperdata helps DevOps, platform engineers, and FinOps teams.

I Tested the Limits of Azure OpenAI Safety - Here's What Happened

I ran a mini-red-team exercise against Azure OpenAI, testing common jailbreak tactics and prompt engineering attacks. Microsoft Defender for Cloud caught nearly everything. The key? A feature called User Prompt Evidence that turned vague alerts into precise, real-time context. If you’re running AI workloads in Azure and haven’t turned this on yet, you’re playing defense blindfolded.