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How ITOps Can Automate Data Discovery for Rapid Privacy Request Fulfilment

For most organisations, managing data privacy compliance is traditionally viewed as a legal or governance function. However, when a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) or Freedom of Information (FOI) application is submitted, the actual labour of retrieving that data falls squarely on IT operations. With the passing of the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024, Australian businesses are facing some of the most comprehensive federal privacy reforms in over a decade.

Why Modern Data Centers Require Better Insulation Strategies for Continuous Uptime

From streaming platforms to banking networks, today's digital demands rest on advanced facilities that operate without pause. With companies relying heavily on constant connectivity, stability within these environments matters more than ever before. A short disruption might result not only in monetary setbacks but also slower workflows and weakened confidence among users. Although computing hardware, climate controls, and emergency energy sources typically dominate discussions, protective layering quietly contributes just as much to seamless performance.

Sovereign cloud for financial services: Meeting FCA and PRA requirements with UK infrastructure

Financial services in the UK operates under one of the most demanding regulatory frameworks in the world. The FCA and PRA between them set expectations for operational resilience, outsourcing, data governance, and concentration risk that shape every infrastructure decision a regulated firm makes. Cloud adoption in the sector has happened, but it's happened under regulatory scrutiny that's grown steadily more pointed over the last several years.

Managing DHCP Across Distributed Networks

Managing DHCP across distributed networks gets messy fast. Lease activity changes constantly. Naming conventions drift. Infrastructure changes happen independently across locations. Before long, your team no longer has a complete view of what’s happening across the network. What started as a straightforward service becomes a records problem with real operational consequences.

Fix flaky tests with AI, and track future test work in Jira

In January we launched Tests in Bitbucket Pipelines – a single place to track, organize, and understand your test health over time. In April we added automatic flaky test detection so unreliable tests get flagged before they slow your team down. But spotting a problem is only half the battle. Day to day, your team still needs to act on a test – track it as work, clean it up, or route it to the right person.

AI Agents Write Broken Code 49% of the Time #speedscale #AI #Coding #Tech #DevOps

AI agents write broken code nearly 50% of the time. By adding a traffic-based deterministic evaluation, Speedscale boosted unsupervised bug-fixing quality from 51% to 77% in just 5 minutes. This helped slash token costs and eliminate rework without human intervention. Learn more: speedscale.com.

Harness Agents

Today, we're launching Autonomous Worker Agents, AI agents that run as governed pipeline steps inside Harness. They inherit OPA policies, RBAC, audit trails, and scoped credentials from the first run. And because they live inside your Harness pipelines, they reason using the Harness Knowledge Graph: your services, deployments, incidents, and policies.

The most dangerous window is before threat intel knows about it

When a malicious package is first published, threat intelligence sources haven't flagged it yet – and every team pulling from a public registry is exposed during that entire window. The fix isn't faster scanning; it's a policy that holds new packages for a defined cooldown period before they're eligible to pull. By the time the window closes, the threat intelligence has caught up. Teams pulling direct from npm or PyPI have no equivalent enforcement layer – which is exactly how attacks like Shai-Hulud got in.