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The Journey to Zero Ticket IT with Agentic Automation

See how RITA, Resolve’s intelligent AI agent, instantly resolves IT issues before they become tickets. In this live demo, you'll get a front-row seat to how RITA automates routine service desk requests, helps technicians troubleshoot faster, and brings the Zero Ticket IT vision to life. Hosted by Ian Coppock and demoed by Derek Pascarella, this is automation in action.

Redgate Monitor Adds Support for Oracle Multitenant

Redgate Monitor now gives you full visibility into activity across Oracle Multitenant environments. With metrics and alerts at both the Container Database (CDB) and Pluggable Database (PDB) level, you can quickly pinpoint performance issues and ensure compliance. With the introduction of Oracle multitenant architecture in Oracle 12c, many teams began consolidating databases into a single Container database (CDB). This helped them to optimize resource usage and simplify patching.

DeepSeek Pricing: Models, How It Works, And Saving Tips

Some teams won’t touch DeepSeek because it’s Chinese. Others are quietly running pilots and rethinking how much reasoning and context they actually need, or can afford. For SaaS teams staring down runaway AI costs, DeepSeek’s mix of open-source freedom, massive context windows, and token rates 10–30X cheaper than OpenAI or Anthropic is tough to ignore. However, DeepSeek pricing comes with cache hits, cache misses, off-peak discounts, that September pricing shift, and more.

Automating GDPR compliance for web applications with CircleCI

Since 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance has been an important milestone in the evolution of privacy laws for web application users across Europe. GDPR requires companies to obtain explicit user consent for data collection and processing, and only for specified, legitimate purposes. It’s a law based on principles of transparency and purpose limitation. This law applies to global companies dealing with EU citizen data, giving individuals control over personal data.

Colocated vs Dedicated vs Remote Servers: How to Choose the Right Hosting for Your Business Projects

Businesses have three main options for hosting servers off-premises: colocation, dedicated server hosting, and cloud (remote) hosting. In colocated hosting (colo), the customer owns the server hardware and simply rents space, power and network connectivity in a thirdparty data center. In this model, "you bring or ship your servers" to the provider's facility and lease rack space, power and bandwidthliquidweb.com. By contrast, dedicated hosting involves leasing an entire physical server from a provider.

What is Database Monitoring

Database monitoring transforms from a reactive troubleshooting exercise into a proactive optimization strategy when you have the right tools and approaches in place. This blog shares practical ways to choose monitoring solutions, set up observability for different database platforms, and design workflows that scale in modern distributed systems.

We need to talk about HFC-227ea

Data centres often hold the fluorinated gas (f-gas) HFC-227ea, traded under the name FM-200, as an emergency measure to stop fires in data halls and technical space without harming electrical equipment. Robust fire prevention helps avoid devastating human, operational, financial, and environmental consequences, but there’s a problem with this particular gas – if released, it has an immense global warming potential.

Why open source might be the best move for ISVs

Why do ISVs choose to partner with Canonical? Canonical’s promise to deliver secure, open source software empowers Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to focus on building and improving their products every day. We help vendors meet regulatory compliance, reduce their environmental footprint through containerization, and stay ready for the future.

Automating Connectivity: The Future of Digital Infrastructure

Connectivity powers our world, but the way it’s bought and sold is being transformed. In this episode of Uplink, Michael Reid talks with Ben Edmond, founder and CEO of Connectbase, about building a global marketplace for digital infrastructure. With 4.2 million quotes processed each month and 1.9 trillion rows of connectivity data, Connectbase is revolutionizing how providers and enterprises access real-time intelligence.