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Not every migration is about rushing to the cloud. More often, it’s about timing, precision, and ensuring that end-users remain unaware of any underlying change. The goal isn’t just to modernize. It’s to do so without disrupting what’s already working. One of our customers, a global feed company with over 1,000 daily Citrix users, reached out to us for guidance.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll see how fixing small inconveniences at work can make things easier and help us get more done. “It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.” – Queen Elizabeth II It's the little changes in life that bring lasting effects. Small, incremental improvements often add to meaningful comfort over time.

Icinga DB Web Automation allows you to automate monitoring tasks and integrate them directly into your systems and workflows. It is possible to issue command actions without a browser. To do so, a form needs to be submitted by a tool such as cUrl. Every request you send follows the same permission rules and access restrictions defined in the web interface, so security and user roles still apply. Want to target specific hosts or services? Simply add filter parameters to the URL.

Summer is in full swing, and we’ve been busy cooking up some exciting updates to make your operations life easier (and less stressful). This quarter has been all about bringing AI agents into the mix to handle the heavy lifting—whether that’s fixing those pesky recurring issues automatically or surfacing the exact context you need when something totally new breaks. We’re excited about the impact this will have on your day-to-day operations.

FinTech is more than just a fast-growing industry; it can drive economic prosperity and improve quality of life, not just in the traditional financial hub of London, but across the whole of the UK. The sector’s success, especially outside the capital, is critical for regional growth and a more balanced national economy.

I’m pleased to announce that Flyway continues to improve its support for Oracle databases with every release, focusing on performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. The most recent updates to Flyway Desktop and Flyway CLI specifically target a long-standing challenge for Oracle users: unnecessary table rebuilds when migrating to partitions or when managing partitions.

One of the core features of Oh Dear is that we can notify you whenever we detect problems with one of your sites. Our notification system is quite powerful. We support many different channels (like email, Slack, Telegram, ... and a whole bunch more), and have fine-grained control over which events should trigger a notification. Today, we've added notification logs.

Your SD-WAN is constantly making decisions. It assesses path quality based on metrics like packet loss, latency, and jitter, and steers traffic for your most critical applications accordingly. For this, it is an indispensable technology. But have you ever paused to ask a fundamental question: Is the path it chooses truly the best one available, or just the best one it can see from its limited vantage point?

Every network operator knows the feeling: a critical alert fires, and suddenly it’s all hands on deck. But instead of jumping straight to resolution, you find yourself sifting through irrelevant alerts, flipping between tools, and trying to assemble a puzzle with missing pieces. In today’s high-stakes, hybrid environments, that kind of delay isn’t just frustrating—it’s costly. When issues arise, fast, intelligent triage is a must.

In 2022, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) conducted a market study into the UK cloud industry to investigate whether the UK’s cloud market was working well, and if any regulatory intervention was needed¹. Ofcom concluded that the market was dominated by AWS and Microsoft, and that competition was limited, and referred matter to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for further investigation².