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Microsoft has announced the General Availability (GA) of SQL Server 2025 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, starting with the CU1 release. This milestone allows enterprises to deploy mission-critical workloads on our latest Long Term Support release, benefiting from predictable stability and up-to-date kernels.

Enterprises have spent the last decade investing heavily in visibility tools to understand where their assets are and how they move across locations. While this approach has improved basic control, it has also revealed a larger gap. Knowing where assets are does not automatically explain how well they perform, how effectively they are used, or whether they contribute real business value. This is where asset intelligence becomes critical.

For most of the last decade, the direction of cloud strategy was clear: standardize, consolidate, and reduce sprawl. Engineering teams worked to pick a primary cloud, reduce vendor dependencies, and simplify their stacks. FinOps teams unwound years of fragmentation. Platform teams built guardrails to make sure it didn’t happen again. Then AI arrived, and it’s a fundamentally different class of workload. AI demands specialized hardware and, increasingly, diverging providers.

Q4 2025 delivered major upgrades across Harness Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and Continuous Verification, focused on safer rollouts, stronger infrastructure integrations, and workflows that scale. Here’s a curated roundup of what shipped and where to learn more. Welcome back to the quarterly update series! Catch up on the latest Harness Continuous Delivery innovations and enhancements with this quarter's Q4 2025 release. For full context, check out our previous updates.

Today marks an important milestone in our journey to make your Ivanti support experience effortless, intuitive and all in one place: Ivanti Innovators Hub is now live! This isn’t just a refresh; it’s a major step forward — delivering a smarter, unified destination where support, resources and community meet your needs, your way.

When you move past daily rotations but find anything longer than a week feels too stretched out, you often end up choosing between weekly and split-week rotations. Weekly rotations give you a full seven days before handing off. Split-week rotations break that time into smaller chunks like 2-day, 3-day, or 4-day shifts. Each approach creates a different rhythm for your team. This guide compares both patterns across three key criteria.

Enterprises operating at cloud scale today face a growing reality: managing infrastructure performance and cost in silos no longer works. Kubernetes, multi cloud environments, and GPU accelerated workloads deliver immense agility and capability, but they also introduce complexity that outpaces traditional monitoring and cost governance approaches.

Stop writing fragile scripts. Discover how top enterprises use Kubernetes Management Platforms to automate governance (Policy-as-Code), scale ephemeral environments, and enforce FinOps with Spot Instances.