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Product Release Notes February 2025

Last week, the FinOps Foundation released its latest installment of the State of FinOps report. This year’s theme: Cloud+. Fortunately for all of us, Cloud+ isn’t yet another streaming service to add to an already infinite list. In the FinOps Foundation’s parlance, Cloud+ refers to all the non-public-cloud spending — e.g., SaaS, AI — that you’d want to group under the broad umbrella of “cloud spending.”

Enhancing Observability with the OTEL Framework and Virtana

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, observability has become essential for supporting robust, efficient systems. According to Gartner’s report “Preparing for the Future of Observability” from September 2024, OpenTelemetry (OTEL) is emerging as the standard framework for collecting telemetry data across different application pipelines.

GitKraken Desktop Release 10.8: Conflict Prevention, Multi Cherry Pick

With GitKraken Desktop 10.8 and its Conflict Prevention, you can detect conflicts with org members early, reducing messy merges and painful rework. Plus, we’ve added highly requested features like cherry picking multiple commits to make your workflow smoother than ever!

Introducing Civo FlexCore: A New Era for Private Cloud

The cloud landscape is evolving, and at Civo, we are committed to pushing boundaries and reimagining cloud infrastructure. At our recent Civo Navigate event in San Francisco, we unveiled a significant step forward in this mission—Civo FlexCore, a game-changing private cloud solution designed to bring the simplicity and efficiency of the public cloud to on-premises environments. For too long, enterprises have struggled with the limitations and costs imposed by hyperscale cloud providers.

High Cardinality Is Eating Your Storage Budget-Here's Why

Have you noticed your storage costs rising even when you're keeping an eye on them? The reason might be something easy to overlook: high cardinality data. For data engineers and developers balancing performance and costs, understanding its impact isn’t just useful—it’s key to avoiding unnecessary spending and system slowdowns.

Monitoring in Hyperconverged Infrastructures: Challenges and Solutions

I have a not-so-secret suspicion that the dream of everyone working with technology is the Enterprise computer from Star Trek. Controlling shields, communications, engines, and everything else from a single place—and with voice commands, no less. “One button to rule them all,” as Sauron might whisper. But until that utopia becomes a reality, at least we can implement a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) in our organization’s technology stack.

13 Cloud Migration Best Practices: 2025 guide

Cloud migration involves transferring digital assets, services, databases, applications, and IT resources from on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments. A well-executed cloud migration can reduce operational costs, improve scalability, enhance flexibility, and boost performance. Organizations can shift from capital-intensive infrastructure to more predictable pay-as-you-go expenses while scaling resources to match needs.

Enhancing security in Bitbucket: Introducing expiry for access tokens

As part of Atlassian’s ongoing investment in security, we’re introducing new controls to help administrators manage authentication tokens more effectively and securely. To reduce the risk of long-lived credentials becoming security vulnerabilities, all newly created access tokens in Bitbucket will require an expiry duration, as determined by the workplace admin.

Cycle Video Walkthrough: Securing Private Network Access with Cloudflare Tunnel

Cycle was built to be a powerful, security focused container orchestration platform that is a more user friendly alternative to Kubernetes. One way it achieves this is by making complex, yet secure networking easy to achieve. By combining Cycle's private networks, known as environments, with Cloudflare Tunnel, teams can further enhance their network security and reliability.

Marty Weiner's AI Predictions: What to Expect in the Next 2 Years

Recorded at Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025, Marty Weiner, co-founder of VerifyYou and former CTO of Reddit, delivers a shocking talk on the current state of AI and its rapid progression. From its impact on various industries to its potential effects on the economy and job market, Marty explores the exciting and terrifying aspects of AI. He also discusses the concept of AGI and its potential implications for civilization. Watch to learn more about the future of AI and what it means for humanity.