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Cycle's Hosted MCP Release Announcement

We are stoked to announce that we have released our very own hosted MCP that allows you to use natural language to interact with and control anything you have running on Cycle.io. Alexander Mattoni, CTO and co-founder of Cycle, shares a few scenarios where the MCP can be useful. With the MCP, Cycle users can communicate with the Cycle platform directly from their preferred AI tool. In minutes, users can provision a new server, deploy an application, or troubleshoot an issue directly from their AI assistant like Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT or Codex.

Endpoint Management with AIDriven Automation

In just two minutes, learn how our AI-powered platform unifies control across Windows, Mac, Linux, Mobile, and even VR/XR headsets. Discover how to eliminate tedious tasks with automated patching, zero-touch onboarding, and self-healing capabilities—allowing your team to focus on strategy instead of firefighting. What you’ll see in this video: How to achieve full visibility across your entire environment. The benefits of risk-based patching and continuous compliance. Proactive user experience optimization powered by AI. How to reduce risk and scale IT efficiency on a single platform.

Android belongs in your CI/CD pipeline

How on-demand Android environments turn validation into a repeatable pipeline stage In the first article, we looked at automation: how Android environments can be created and managed programmatically. In the second, we looked at scaling: how shared infrastructure can make those environments available to more developers, tests, and workloads. This third article looks at the next step: integrating those environments directly into CI/CD.

BigPanda Analytics: AI-driven insights and faster answers across all your ITOps data

See how BigPanda Analytics turns IT operations analytics into instant answers, no hand-built reports required. IT leaders are used to waiting on a report someone on the ops team had to hand build, and every follow-up question starts the cycle over again, while the business keeps moving. This demo shows how IT executives get direct access to IT operations analytics: prebuilt dashboards, AI-powered insights, and a natural language research tool that answers questions in real time.

Best Monitoring Tools With MCP Servers for AI Coding Agents (2026)

Your AI coding agent can read your code, run your tests, and open a pull request. Until recently it could not see what that code does in production. MCP servers from monitoring vendors close that gap. Connect one, and Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot can pull the error, the trace, and the slow query behind a bug report without you copying anything out of a dashboard. Most major monitoring vendors now offer an official MCP server. But they aren’t interchangeable. Some only expose errors.

Grafana Mobile to Desktop Companion App

The Grafana Mobile App lets you triage alerts with help from Assistant from your phone. You can declare an incident or trigger an investigation into an incident in order to get more information so that by the time you get to your desktop, everything is ready for you. Grafanistas Ignacio and Florian go through a use case deep dive, demonstrating the value of the Grafana Mobile Companion app by triggering an investigation, talk to Assistant, and have all the data you need to resolve an incident - all from your phone.

How to Make Claude Your UI Design Companion

When I first tried Claude Design, shortly after it was released, I wasn’t impressed. As an every day Figma user, I missed the option to manipulate elements directly, especially for fine tuning details. What I overlooked at that point was the fact that it is really good at generating different options efficiently. Most of them aren’t usable, but getting these options suggested helps when exploring and combining different approaches and ideas.

From PDF Reports to Leadership Decks: A Workflow for Ops and IT Teams

Operations and IT teams produce a steady stream of reports: monthly uptime summaries exported from monitoring tools, incident postmortems, SLA reports from vendors, security audit results, capacity reviews. Most of them end up as PDFs. Then someone from leadership asks for "a few slides for the quarterly review," and an engineer loses an afternoon copying text and screenshots into PowerPoint.

Top 5 AI Pitch Deck Tools for Sales Teams That Cut Slide Creation Time

AI pitch-deck tools promise "60-second" creation, yet reps keep burning hours fixing fonts, charts, and brand colors. We benchmarked 12 contenders and timed every step-from first prompt to a client-ready PowerPoint or Google Slides file. Only five met our bar for deck quality, native editability, workflow speed, collaboration depth, value, and security. This guide shows which tool wins each sales scenario so you can choose based on data, not hype.

How Hybrid WAN Is Transforming Enterprise Network Connectivity

Enterprise networks are evolving as businesses adopt cloud applications, remote work, distributed offices, and connected devices. A hybrid WAN solution can help organizations combine different connectivity options while supporting the performance, reliability, and flexibility required by modern business operations.