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Atlassian Bitbucket Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM

As part of a customer project, we developed a custom Bitbucket Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). This tailored solution enables IT operations teams to monitor key performance and health metrics of Bitbucket environments, ensuring planning and bug-tracking platforms remain available and performant. With this Use Case paper, we aim to share our knowledge with the SCOM community, highlighting the possibilities of advanced monitoring on Microsoft SCOM and helping teams improve their day-to-day tasks.

What A Great FinOps Onboarding Looks Like In 2025

I’ve seen firsthand how persona-centric FinOps creates realized savings through synergy. I’m a Certified AWS Solutions Architect, FinOps Engineer, and Customer Success leader who’s had the joy of turning cloud confusion into clarity. I’ve added a customer story below — but hold up, we’ve got onboarding optimizing to do.

10 Best Kubernetes Alternatives In 2025 (By Category)

Containers and microservices are revolutionizing how distributed applications are built, run, and optimized. They enable apps to be highly scalable. You can also isolate some areas for updates and patches without shutting down the entire application or service. Yet, managing containers and microservices at scale can be tricky. That’s where a container management platform like Kubernetes comes in – or, as you’ll see below, where the top Kubernetes alternatives shine.

How we saved $1.5 million per year with Cloud Cost Management

In collecting and analyzing trillions of events each day, Datadog ingests a massive amount of data. We spend substantially to process and store this data in the cloud, and teams across the organization are committed to optimizing the return on this investment. To this end, our FinOps analysts have always tracked the costs of delivering our services and identified opportunities for savings.

The Top AI Models And Trends Shaping SaaS in 2025

Two years ago, a “state-of-the-art” AI model could write decent copy or summarize a meeting transcript. Today, the top AI models can generate working code, analyze video in real time, and reason through complex scenarios. For SaaS teams, these changes represent a strategic crossroads. Choose the right model and you unlock new revenue streams, slash time-to-market, and wow your users.

Major Opportunities and Technologies in Business HVAC Operation

The backbone of comfort, energy efficiency, and indoor air quality of buildings depends on commercial HVAC systems. Efficient environmental conditions in office buildings, manufacturing plants, and much more are crucial to the functionality of such systems. Yet, commercial HVAC operations have their challenges as well, and a new wave of technologies is enabling operators to meet them.

Mastering Cloud Governance: Build A Strategy That Works

One of the biggest benefits of the cloud is that it gives engineering teams the freedom to deploy and iterate applications quickly. Unlike traditional IT environments where engineers require a series of approvals before embarking on projects, in the cloud, engineers can choose from several managed services and deploy them at the click of a button. This means your team can innovate faster and respond quickly to market demands.

Stop Asking What AI Costs, Ask If It Is Worth It

AI is surging into products. And the invoices are exploding with it. The key question is no longer, “How much did we spend?” It’s now: “Was it worth it?” That shift, from totals to value, is at the heart of FinOps. The FinOps community defines the practice as bringing financial accountability to the cloud, so teams make tradeoffs with clear business context. In plain English, measure value per dollar, then optimize the system and not just the bill.