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According to Redgate’s 2026 State of the Database Landscape report, 91% of teams – no matter how experienced – still hit at least one significant challenge during their move to the cloud.

While ephemeral sandboxes are effective for isolated code execution, enterprise AI agents require a more robust context to be reliable. Upsun provides production-like preview environments, complete with byte-level clones of apps and services, offering a higher standard of validation for agentic workflows.

Managing a growing data center requires accurate, real-time infrastructure data. Outdated tools often miss critical changes, delay decisions, and make it harder to control energy usage, capacity, and risk. Hyperview is a cloud-based Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform that helps teams monitor, manage, and optimize their data center infrastructure from one centralized system.

Your app is deployed. Users are signing in. Traffic is flowing. Everything is live. Congratulations, give yourself a pat on the back. Okay that's enough. Now it’s time to get back to work because you’ve officially entered the phase where production starts revealing all the decisions you made three months ago, unsure how it would affect you today. Because deploying an app is one half of the job. And, production environments have a way of exposing: This is where operations begin.

The best ADO.NET tools for SQLite should preserve the speed that makes SQLite worth using in the first place. Recent benchmarks show it completing 100,000 sequential reads in 272 milliseconds, nearly 5x faster than MySQL on the same hardware, because there’s zero network overhead between your app and the database. A slow or poorly matched provider wipes out that advantage. Queries drag, operations behave unpredictably under concurrency, and simple data access turns into a scaling problem.

The time has come to announce the release of dbForge 2026.1, a grand update that brings a variety of new features and long-anticipated enhancements to the entire dbForge ecosystem. As usual, the update will cover all database systems that dbForge is compatible with, but this time, there will be a special focus on PostgreSQL and related databases and cloud services, whose users will be witnessing a major step forward, with multiple new features, options, and whatnot.

When thinking about Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and contractual Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for availability, I always like to put the percentages into concrete numbers. It’s easy to lose track of what’s meant when saying “99.95%” availability, and even more is lost when thinking how much harder it is to achieve 99.99% compared to 99.95%. On a monthly basis, and in concrete terms, 99.95% availability means you get 21 minutes and 55 seconds of downtime.

More organizations are moving workloads from Azure public cloud to Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) than most people realize. The reasons vary: data sovereignty requirements, latency-sensitive workloads that need to be closer to the edge, cost optimization for predictable workloads where reserved cloud capacity doesn’t make financial sense, or regulatory constraints that require data to stay on-premises.