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During the summer of 2024, SAP quietly announced the end of the Landscape Manager product. You can find out more from SAP directly here, including linked SAP Notes. LaMa Discontinued Community Post Unlike the news for Solution Manager or Focused Run, where the 2027 date signals a transition to extended support options, with LaMa the product is discontinued and extended support options aren’t available. For customers using Lama, the announcement and timeline are disruptive.

This article kicks off a 4-part series on leveraging AIOps to provide a more efficient, cost- and resource-saving, reliable, and agile IT infrastructure.

Splunk isn't bad software. It's genuinely powerful. But in 2026, a lot of engineering teams are asking a fair question: are we getting $300K worth of value out of this? More often than not, the answer is no. We went through 15 alternatives - read the docs, tested where we could, and talked to engineers who made the switch. This is what we found.

At Cortex, our mission is to help engineering organizations deliver reliable, secure, efficient software, faster. With Cortex, teams can standardize against best practices and create a culture of continuous improvement to achieve this. Today, we’re excited to announce a formalized partnership with Semgrep, a leader in modern static analysis and code security.

In 2025, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced plans for an EU Cloud and AI Development Act, prioritizing digital sovereignty amidst growing concerns over data security and privacy. These concerns have been fueled by Edward Snowden's 2013 revelations about US surveillance and further intensified by the Trump administration's actions and rhetoric, including its criticism of EU digital regulations and threats to US tech companies.

Numerous best practices help to deliver robust cybersecurity. Adopting these will involve combining many of the technologies already outlined in the previous entry.

Welcome to February’s Cloud Economics Pulse, CloudZero’s monthly look at cloud spend as AI moves from experiment to expectation. Last month, we closed out 2025 with a settling: provider shares locked in, compute softened, and AI claimed more of the mix (big surprise there). January confirmed those patterns weren’t year-end hustle and bustle. They signify a new baseline. Also, the Big Three (AWS, GCP, Azure) barely moved. They’re as entrenched as can be.