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VMware. A name synonymous with virtualization, a powerhouse in the infrastructure space and seemingly the enterprise standard for those managing VMs, to put it simply. But if you haven't noticed yet, behind that familiar name is a new age of license complexity, unexpected renewals, and sharp price hikes that have left many organizations scrambling. Since Broadcom acquired VMware, these challenges have only intensified, with customers blindsided by costs increasing several hundred percent overnight.

Here at Canonical we are excited to announce that we have shipped the first release of our solution for enterprise-ready data lakehouses, built on the combination of Apache Spark and Apache Kyuubi. Using our Charmed Apache Kyuubi in integration with Spark, you can deliver a robust, production-level, and open source data lakehouse. Our Apache Kyuubi charm integrates tightly as part of the Charmed Apache Spark bundle, providing a single and simpler-to-use SQL interface to big data analytics enthusiasts.

Since its launch in 2020, the Infinity data source for Grafana has become the go-to solution to seamlessly query and visualize data from JSON, CSV, XML, and GraphQL endpoints within Grafana. Allowing users to integrate diverse data formats via HTTP-based APIs, the Infinity data source has enabled a wide range of use cases within our community over the years — from visualizing cloud computing costs to popular Pokémon games.

As cloud infrastructure becomes more dynamic and distributed, DevOps and security teams need to quickly detect risks and understand their context: where those risks live, how critical they are, and how to respond effectively. By surfacing misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, sensitive data risks, and identity threats directly on a real-time diagram of your infrastructure, Cloudcraft helps teams identify, prioritize, and remediate security issues at scale.

Understand how Kafka integrates with Apache Iceberg and experiment locally with Docker and Spark The streaming data landscape is evolving rapidly, and one of the most exciting developments is the integration between Apache Kafka and Apache Iceberg. While Kafka excels at real-time data streaming, organizations often struggle with the complexity of moving streaming data into analytical systems.

Speed vs security has long been treated as an impossible choice: move fast and risk instability, or stay safe and fall behind. For DevOps, DevSecOps, and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) leaders, that tension often plays out between the demand to ship updates quickly and the need to maintain airtight security and compliance.

Full Session Simulation is a powerful troubleshooting strategy. Have you ever been in a situation where everything on your dashboards looks green, but users are still encountering issues and raising support tickets?The cliche of “everything is fine on our side” moment is not just frustrating for everyone. It’s risky! Because when you can’t replicate what the user is experiencing, you’re flying blind.

Elastic featured in AWS Generative AI Hub for public sector Elastic is proud to be featured in the new AWS Generative AI Content Hub for public sector — a destination showcasing the most impactful ways agencies can securely adopt and scale generative AI (GenAI).

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘pager?’ For most people its either the ’90s or doctors. Which to me, feels like an oxymoron. A decades old device mixed with an industry based on innovation? It’s a recipe for disaster. Yet somehow, pagers still accompany doctors on their daily rounds. And while there are plenty of supposed “reasons” why, most of them don’t hold up, especially now.

If you’ve worked in network operations, this scenario is all too familiar. Even the most seasoned teams and robust processes can’t escape reality: changes fail, misconfigurations happen, and the fallout is real–lost productivity, unhappy customers, compliance headaches, and hours (or days) of cleanup. But what if it didn’t have to be that way?