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How to Improve Your IT Reliability as a Business Owner

How to Improve Your IT Reliability as a Business Owner

Apr 29, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Running a small company often feels like spinning plates. You handle sales, hiring, and finance, and hoping the computers just work. When the Wi-Fi drops or a server crashes, everything stops. Improving your tech reliability is not about fancy gear. It is about creating a stable foundation for your daily operations.
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Cost Control in SAP BTP: The Critical Need for Automation

Apr 28, 2026 By Robert MacDonald In Avantra
The cloud is the cheapest processing you can buy... until you get the bill! Unfortunately, Cloud service costs are notoriously opaque when it comes to transactional and operations costs. The results can be unexpected bills and even damage to the ROI of cloud programs. SAP BTP is no exception, but it doesn't have to be this way. Good FinOps discipline is readily available for BTP - and beyond avoiding "bill shock" such monitoring is just good operational hygiene, preserving budget and resources for productive investment.
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"Proactive Insights for a Reactive World": What Makes Collective IQ Different for Business Leaders

Apr 28, 2026 By Almaden AI In Almaden AI
From a business executive's perspective, the core question is not how many metrics a tool collects, but how clearly it connects technology to business productivity, cost, and risk. Dave Wagner summarizes this nicely: "if you're a business leader, what's really powerful about Collective IQ is it's not just technology metrics, it's productivity metrics."
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Disaster Recovery Testing in Harness | Resilience Testing

Apr 28, 2026 By Harness In Harness
In this video, we introduce Harness Resilience Testing and show you how to move beyond once-a-year DR drills to a continuously validated, pipeline-driven process. You'll see how Harness lets you validate regional failovers, check database replication lag under pressure, and confirm your hot standbys genuinely take over live traffic, all in one place. We also walk through a live DR test execution, showing exactly how Harness triggers the full failover sequence, runs every validation step automatically, and gives you a clear pass or fail result in real time.
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netdata

Misconfigured Alert Detection: Find the Alerts That Need Tuning

Apr 28, 2026 By Shyam Sreevalsan In netdata
Netdata ships with hundreds of stock alerts. They cover a wide range of infrastructure conditions and they’re designed with sensible defaults. But “sensible defaults” and “correct for your environment” are not the same thing. A CPU threshold that’s perfectly reasonable for a build server might generate constant noise on a machine running batch jobs.
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coralogix

What "AI-Ready Data" actually means for observability teams

Apr 28, 2026 By Micha Duman In Coralogix
Many organizations deploying AI are learning similar lessons right now: the challenge isn’t this or that AI model, it’s the data. According to Gartner, 60% of AI projects will be abandoned by organizations because of failures to support these projects with AI-ready data. Also, 63% of organizations either lack or aren’t sure they have the right data management practices to get there.
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Now in Harness DB DevOps: Percona Toolkit for safer MySQL schema changes | Harness Blog

Apr 28, 2026 By Jesse Wang In Harness
If you've ever run an ALTER TABLE on a busy MySQL table in production, you know the feeling. The change is small. The risk isn't. Long-running table locks, queued writes, application timeouts, replication lag, a five-minute migration that turns into a half-hour incident review. We're shipping an integration that takes that anxiety out of the loop. Harness Database DevOps now supports Percona Toolkit for MySQL as part of Liquibase-based schema management.
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