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FinOps KPIs for IT Infrastructure: A Practical Field Guide for Cost Visibility

Infrastructure cost visibility has become a critical part of IT decision-making. Performance still matters, but for many infrastructure leaders, that’s no longer the full conversation. Leadership teams increasingly want clarity around cost movement, upgrade exposure, underutilized resources, and whether infrastructure decisions are financially defensible. That creates a different requirement for operations teams: visibility that connects technical behavior to business impact.

The Kubeshark Workflow That Doesn't Stop at the Dashboard

The Observability Gap shows up the moment you try to reproduce a production bug locally. Your traces tell you a request was slow. Your logs tell you which line printed. Neither tells you what was actually on the wire: the headers, the JSON body, the surprise field your client started sending last Tuesday. Until now, closing that gap meant SSHing to a node, attaching a debugger, or shipping a sidecar through change review.

Real-World Service Desk Automation: Use Cases That Prove a Platform is Enterprise-Ready

Most conversations about service desk automation stay at the strategy level for too long. Capability checklists and evaluation frameworks matter, but they won’t show you what the platform does when something breaks at 2 AM, or what happens when a single incident crosses four team boundaries before it can close. These scenarios show where simpler platforms start to give way. Teams usually automate the clean, single-system work first.

Security and reliability review: 7 delivery model weak points to check first

Security audits that focus only on application code often miss the delivery layer entirely. That is where the most common and most avoidable failures live. Most teams treat security as a layer added on top of a working system. The problem is that the delivery model itself introduces risk before a single line of application code runs. When deployments are manual, environments are inconsistent, or configuration drifts across stages, the system behaves unpredictably.

Data sovereignty is an opportunity for regional growth

Data sovereignty wasn’t a major topic just a few years ago and now it’s becoming a major economic opportunity for regions across the UK. In this clip from Perspectives from the Edge, Katie Gallagher OBE from Manchester Digital discusses why the conversation around data sovereignty has shifted, and how the rise of AI is accelerating demand for trusted regional digital infrastructure. As organisations rethink where data is stored, processed and governed, regions like Manchester are increasingly well placed to benefit through investment, innovation and digital skills growth.

The audit-ready engineering org

Two weeks before the audit, the Slack messages start. Get me a screenshot of this. Can you screenshot the CI/CD logs? Can you add the artifact names that were deployed to production and when, and when the incident happened? Senior engineers stop shipping. A spreadsheet appears. The product roadmap goes on hold while four people chase down ownership data and evidence that should have existed all along. This fire drill is the symptom of an operating model problem.

Welcome Keynote | Ubuntu Summit 26.04

Welcome to Ubuntu Summit 26.04! In this welcome keynote, Mark Shuttleworth (CEO, Canonical), and Jon Seager (VP Engineering, Canonical), detail how Ubuntu is driving speed, safety, and community access in the era of agentic engineering. Learn how Canonical is balancing the need for rapid innovation with strict safety sandboxing through snaps, LXD, and microVMs. You'll also get a first look at what's in store for Ubuntu.

Introducing Workshop | Ubuntu Summit 26.04

In this talk from Ubuntu Summit, Dmitry Lyfar (Engineering Manager at Canonical) introduces Workshop: a new solution for launching composable, secure, and fast development environments on Ubuntu in a single command. Learn how to create sandboxed, reproducible environments for running agents with different development stacks consistently and securely. Ubuntu Summit 26.04 is a showcase for the innovative and the ambitious.

Using Bootc to Manage Ubuntu Hosts | Ubuntu Summit 26.04

What if you could manage your Ubuntu hosts the same way you manage your containerized applications? Managing Ubuntu hosts traditionally means configuration management, package updates, and drift control using tools like Puppet, Chef, or shell automation. Bootc streamlines the process. A Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project, bootc lets you define your Ubuntu systems as OCI container images and deploy them consistently across bare metal, virtual machines, edge devices, or cloud environments.