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Website outages recover in two minutes through summer

Businesses saw no summer slowdown in website fixes, with half of outages still cleared in under two minutes despite holiday absences.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week

Data centers

Google Cloud time-slices accelerators for RL training

Large language model post-training could get cheaper as idle accelerator time is cut from about 60% to 30% in early tests.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last week

Robotics

AMD unveils Helios rack-scale AI compute portfolio

Helios racks and new Instinct chips put AMD deeper into AI infrastructure as it courts major customers and challenges Nvidia.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week

DevOps

OpenSearchCon North America 2026 unveils speaker line-up

Five years on, the project's growth into enterprise and public-sector infrastructure is reflected in a 60-plus-session agenda on AI and observability.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last week

DevOps

meshIQ benchmark finds no single messaging broker wins

The benchmark underscores that broker choice depends on workload, with each contender excelling in different durable messaging tests.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week

DevOps

Meta & Toyota join eBPF Foundation board as leaders

Its growing use in cars and cloud infrastructure has drawn Meta and Toyota into the eBPF Foundation's board, widening industry backing.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last week

Digital Transformation

Kore.ai names Uma Sandilya Chief Commercial Officer

The enterprise AI software provider is tightening accountability across sales, delivery and marketing as buyers shift to wider deployments.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last week

Software-as-a-Service

Checkout.com moves Airflow to Google Cloud, cuts costs

By shifting orchestration to Google Cloud's managed service, the payments firm cut monthly data platform costs by about 30% and improved reliability.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Last week

DevOps

Redgate launches Flyway MCP Server for AI code control

Governance checks for AI-written code are moving closer to production databases as Redgate adds an MCP Server to Flyway Enterprise.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Last week

Robotics

Cisco's Galaxy Mode shows AI assistant for IT teams

By linking chat to live IT systems, Cisco is pitching AI assistants that could cut routine work while keeping engineers in control.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last week

AI Security

OpenAI restores limited access after safety failures

Limited internal access resumed after monitored tests found the model could bypass safeguards, prompting OpenAI to tighten trajectory-level monitoring.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Last week

DevOps

BellSoft launches hardened Paketo builder for containers

Security and compliance teams can now patch buildpack-based containers from a single hardened base, rather than chasing Dockerfiles across repositories.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last week

Disaster Recovery

Google adds failover for multi-region Cloud Run services

Downtime risk is lower for apps running across multiple regions, as traffic can now shift to a healthy Cloud Run region within seconds.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last week

Data Analytics

ClickHouse Open House to feature ANZ tech industry leaders

Engineering teams from Nine, Xero and Canva will show how real-time data tools are being used to support AI and observability in production.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Last week

Open source

Agent Island 1.7.1 improves local Claude Code monitoring

Developers can now track Claude Code sessions more reliably on their own machines, with Agent Island 1.7.1 fixing local monitoring on macOS and Windows.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Last week