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GenAI has moved well past the pilot stage. According to a Gartner finding, by 2026, more than 80% of enterprises will have used GenAI APIs or deployed GenAI-enabled applications in production. Today, GenAI is becoming an integral part of how infrastructure and application teams work every day. Organizations are depending on LLMs from a diverse range of vendors—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI, and DeepSeek—based on the strengths each offer for different use cases.

Microsoft Azure Monitor is the native monitoring platform for Azure environments. For teams already running workloads in Azure, it offers an obvious starting point: it's built in, deeply integrated, and parts of it are genuinely free.

Monitoring has come a long way. Your team has dashboards, alerts, and automation that would've looked like magic a decade ago. Most days, things just work. But underneath all that tooling, a lot of the actual work still happens manually. An alert fires, and you pull the page-load metric from one tool, the user session logs from another, the backend trace from a third, and line them up until the story makes sense. Ten minutes, maybe fifteen pass, then you are able to fix it and move on.

In 2026, a hybrid cloud is no longer something organizations are working toward; it's already where they are. According to Forrester's The State Of Cloud Series 2026, the vast majority of enterprises across major markets, including the United States, India, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, and the Asia-Pacific region, are running some form of a hybrid cloud, combining public cloud platforms with private infrastructure, colocation data centers, and sovereign cloud providers.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and share ways to stay ahead. This week, let's look at a few ways you can be a tech-savvy traveler. Being a traveler is not easy, but with today's modern technology, it has become much easier. When we travel to places with no network, we sometimes forget about the ways we can use technology. Excluding the more familiar, I'm going to list some lesser-known tips. 1.

Introducing switch Power over Ethernet (PoE) monitoring in ManageEngine OpUtils, enabling administrators to track switch power budgets and port-level PoE metrics directly from the same console used for DNS, DHCP, IPAM (DDI), and switch port management.

Top Tips is a weekly column where we explore practical ways to navigate the technology shaping our everyday lives. This week, we're tackling a common feeling: the fear of not being “tech-savvy” enough, and sharing simple habits to help you become more confident, curious, and comfortable with the technology you use every day. Ever felt like you’re the only person in the room who doesn’t understand what everyone is talking about? That little fear of looking clueless?

Have you ever opened a new app and immediately known what to do? You know where to click, what an icon means, and somehow everything feels exactly where it should be. Then you open another app and spend several minutes looking for a basic setting, navigating confusing menus and wondering why something so simple feels so difficult. What makes the difference? It isn't always the technology. Often, it's psychology.

Ever heard of Murphy's Law of IT Administration? It states that the server hosting your security tools will go down at the exact moment a critical vulnerability is making headlines everywhere. Whether it's a sudden power shutdown, a database hiccup, or a local network failure, losing access to your central management tools right when you need them most is every IT team's worst nightmare.

I recently heard a song that was written by a girl but sung and composed by AI. It left me confused— I'm not sure if I liked it. I was a bit prejudiced and automatically hated it because it was composed by AI. Similar to many works of AI, it had a rhythm, but it was too repetitive and lacked emotions. This made me think about all the other forms of art that might be created by AI, and it left me with a bitter feeling.