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As a Citrix consultant, not every issue I troubleshoot is directly tied to Citrix, but many of them dramatically impact the end-user experience. This is one of those cases. A customer had begun testing Windows Server 2025 as Multi-Session hosts in their environment. The new servers were domain-joined and fully patched, and they expected a smooth experience with Office 365, Entra ID–backed apps, and cloud-based authentication. Everything had worked flawlessly on Server 2022.

June 12 started like any other Wednesday–until the internet broke. It started with Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) system, but the fallout hit everything built on top of it. Widespread service degradation swept across core Google products and third-party platforms. Gmail, Docs, Meet, and Chat went dark. Cloudflare services were unavailable. Developer and AI tools faltered.

To read the full findings from this research, visit The Digital Sovereignty Revolution whitepaper by clicking here. As the digital landscape continues to evolve, one question is becoming increasingly pressing: are you in control of your digital future? With growing concerns around data sovereignty and the impact of geopolitical risks on cloud strategies, it's time to assess your organization's digital infrastructure.

It’s a question we hear often - how do we use the Progress Flowmon solution to block an attack? Flowmon is not an inline appliance that stands in the path of inbound traffic, so we partner with third-party vendors who supply equipment such as firewalls or unified security gateways. In this post, we’re going to show you how to instruct Fortinet’s firewall FortiGate via Flowmon ADS to block traffic in response to a detected anomaly or attack.

You’re probably not combing through cloud bills. That’s not your job as CEO. But if no one on your executive team can tell you what it costs to serve a customer, ship a feature, or launch a new product line, that’s a problem. Not a someday problem. A right-now, quietly-draining-your-margins kind of problem. FinOps tends to get lumped in with cost-cutting — some finance thing, some DevOps thing. But that framing misses the point. Done right, FinOps is a growth enabler.

Picture this. Gartner forecasts worldwide end-user spending for public cloud usage to total more than $720 billion in 2025 — up from $595 billion in 2024. Out of that spend, SaaS will make up a chunky $299 billion. For comparison, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) will make up nearly $212 billion and $209 billion, respectively. Elsewhere, BetterCloud’s State of SaaS 2025 report found that the average organization uses 106 different SaaS tools.

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Time series data powers nearly every modern system, from industrial equipment and energy grids to financial platforms and digital services. Devices and software continuously generate streams of time-stamped metrics that reflect how systems perform moment to moment. Most businesses collect this data, but far fewer utilize its full potential. Storing information and reviewing dashboards offers limited value.

When an alert comes in, it’s not always obvious who picked it up. You might see an issue sitting unresolved, but no one has said anything yet. Was it acknowledged? Is someone already working on it? These are questions that teams deal with every day – especially when multiple people are on duty and the pressure is on.

Today, BigPanda released our first-ever research report based on data gathered from our agentic IT operations platform. Our Monitoring and Observability Tool Effectiveness for IT Event Management report provides insights and benchmarks on incident detection and noise reduction for 130 enterprise organizations, including the monitoring and observability data sources integrated with BigPanda.