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Best Practices for Data Centre Migration A Risk-Aware Guide for IT Leaders

When a data centre migration is executed well, it enables growth and strengthens resilience. When it is not, the consequences are immediate: service downtime, compliance breaches, and operational disruption that affects both clients and internal teams. For IT leaders, the pressure lies in modernising infrastructure without compromising continuity.

Reality Bytes: Our Everyday AI Use (Personal & Professional)

The Reality Bytes team is back together again! Tim, Tom, Megan, Dina and Sean swap stories of how AI has reshaped their personal and professional lives and habits over the past year—from eerie chatbot encounters and creative breakthroughs to frustrations with hallucinations and the hunt for the true “human fingerprint.”

How to know your data with Cribl's Ed Bailey and VisiCore Technology's Paul Stout.

Classifying and tagging data is the key to automating pipelines and improving visibility across the enterprise. We’ll share both the technical and business impact of truly knowing your data, and why Cribl makes it possible. Plus, we’ll talk CriblCon and why we’re excited to see you there.

Monitor Slurm with Datadog

Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is an open source workload management system used to schedule jobs and manage resources for high-performance computing (HPC) Linux clusters. It ensures that jobs and resources are scheduled fairly and efficiently and is scalable across large clusters, an issue that native Linux process management tools struggle with.

The Importance of Community Knowledge in Tech

Tools alone aren’t enough. How you use them and the expertise you tap into make all the difference. In this Short, we explore why even the best tools need the proper guidance to unlock their full potential. Open-source communities are goldmines of knowledge and support Connecting with experts can save you serious time and headaches While enterprise support is valuable, the community often has your back. Get practical tips to get the most out of your tools, and remember: it’s not just what you use; it’s how you connect, learn, and grow along the way.

Managing Up: Improving Upward Influence

The concept of managing up is simple -- in order for you to influence decision-makers, you need to learn how to speak their language and show initiative when it comes to solving problems. Even as an entry-level manager, you can have a lot of influence over decisions just by working closely with your direct manager and even executives. In this stream, we'll be talking with IT leaders about how they manage their managers through constant communication, proper expectations, and frank discussions about business impact so that they're able to better influence decisions on a broader scale.

Why Jenkins might cost you 10x more than Bitbucket Pipelines

Any company still running their own CI/CD, such as Jenkins, is paying a price. The question is which one: Each of these is extremely costly, and yet many software teams still host and run their own CI/CD for two reasons: tools like Jenkins are cheap or free, and hosting Jenkins on an AWS EC2 instance is often cheaper per minute than SaaS CI/CD services like Bitbucket Pipelines. Both reasons are true, but they’re also a trap.