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New Features in SQL Server 2025: AI, Performance, and Cloud Integration

Most databases were built for a slower world, one where data waited, systems pulled, and answers came later. But today, data flows. It triggers real-time decisions, powers models in motion, and spans every cloud layer. This shift demands a different kind of database—one built to execute, not just store. Microsoft has answered that call with SQL Server 2025.

NiCE DB2 Management Pack 5.40

NiCE is proud to announce the availability of the NiCE DB2 Management Pack 5.40, a new milestone in advanced monitoring and management for IBM DB2 environments. Version 5.40 introduces powerful enhancements that improve efficiency, compatibility, and ease of use: Cluster Synchronization Improvements Ensures more accurate and efficient configuration sync across clustered deployments.

Service Level Objectives -- Customer Brown Bag -- May 29th, 2025

This technical session on Service Level Objectives (SLOs) will cover the fundamentals of SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs, along with how to define, monitor, and optimize them for system reliability. Through hands-on demonstrations, you'll learn to set up SLOs in Sumo Logic, track performance using logs, metrics, and tracing, and configure proactive alerts for incident response. By the end, you’ll have the skills to implement and manage SLOs effectively, ensuring your services meet reliability goals while balancing performance and cost.

The IT Leader Tightrope: Managing Tech and Team in Tandem

As IT professionals transition into leadership roles, the challenge isn't just shifting priorities -- it's managing time, expectations, and impact across two demanding fronts. Balancing hands-on technical work with the responsibilities of managing people, paths of communication, and team performance can leave even the most capable IT leaders feeling stretched thin.

Clinical Mobility in Healthcare with Strategic Mobility Group (SMG3) | Zebra

Explore how Strategic Mobility Group (SMG3) is revolutionizing clinical mobility in healthcare with their EDGE platform, featuring the Zebra HC50. Join Eric Holmes as he showcases how SMG3 streamlines the management of thousands of mobile devices in hospitals, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance for healthcare professionals. Discover their comprehensive solutions, including device configuration, life cycle management, and user interface customization, tailored to the unique needs of hospital units like the NICU and ED.

Monitoring Backstage with OpenTelemetry:Closing the observability blind spot

‘One small step for a man, but a huge leap for developers’ — me, when I realised how to observe my Backstage with OpenTelemetry. Backstage is often the “portal” through which we manage all our other systems, but who watches the watcher? Recently, we gave a KubeCon Talk, highlighting that monitoring Backstage itself is critical. When Backstage isn’t observable, it becomes a blind spot in your infrastructure.