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After a focused period of design and development, the new Cloudsmith web app is now available to all customers at app.cloudsmith.com. The new web app replaces the existing cloudsmith.io, which will be fully decommissioned in June 2025.

Is your business ready for 2025? Prevent downtime and protect your bottom line with our tips for improving network resilience. From the applications running critical workloads in the cloud to remote users dispersed across different global regions, the world of 2025 needs to be completely interconnected. And with businesses in all industries relying on these interconnections to deliver promises to customers, hit deadlines, and attain revenue, network resilience has never been more crucial.

As the demands of modern software development continue to grow, so too does the complexity of DevOps. To keep pace, many organizations are turning to AI-powered assistants that help manage infrastructures, streamline pipelines, and automate repetitive tasks. These assistants are known as copilots, and they promise to enhance productivity while reducing operational overhead. But not all of them are created equal.

Local preview environments are transforming how developers test and validate code changes before merging them into the main codebase. Acting as temporary cloud environments, they provide a production-like setting where new features and bug fixes can be tested in isolation, catching issues early and streamlining the development code review process. These environments are crucial for enhancing development velocity, especially in CI/CD workflows used by DevOps engineers and QA teams.

Configuration management tools can help you track and manage changes to systems within your infrastructure, making sure that your software and hardware runs reliably and smoothly.

The Foundations of the Future report recently commissioned by techUK, and developed by Henham Strategy, raises many points for consideration. It is an important attempt at quantifying the UK’s data centre assets. As a sector, the UK data centre industry is worth £4.7 billion in Gross Value Added (GVA) annually, supporting 43,500 jobs and contributing £640 million in tax revenue to the exchequer.