The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) was officially introduced on December 10th 2024, to protect foundational EU values in the face of rising cyberattack threats. As cyberattacks targeting products with digital elements have grown more frequent and costly, the regulation establishes the first horizontal cybersecurity baseline for all hardware and software products sold in Europe. The urgency is real given that in Omdia’s 2026 software supply chain security report, 77% of organizations reported experiencing a supply chain incident in the last year. The regulation will take full effect on December 11, 2027, but mandatory vulnerability reporting obligations take effect on…
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Have you been thinking about migrating your reporting to Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake but you have no idea what it would actually cost? That’s the scariest thing, and the general thinking is that cloud reporting is expensive. But the good news is that it doesn’t have to be. I’ve built Fabric and Snowflake based solutions for multiple clients and for some of them the recurring monthly cost has been less than £100! That’s the Fabric/Snowflake running cost and the cost of using Azure Data Factory to extract the data from source and load it into Fabric/Snowflake.Obviously, the more data you…
Most enterprise AI projects don’t fail because of the model. They fail because getting clean, governed access to production data is slow, political, and manual. Every new data connection requires IT involvement. Every new agent adds more surface area to manage. And every developer who goes around IT creates a new problem for someone else to clean up later.CData is trying to fix that with three new releases aimed directly at developers: Connect AI Developer Edition (free), the CData Connect AI Python SDK (open source), and CData CLI.The announcement, set for June 23, reflects a deliberate shift in how CData…
You’ve just deployed a service, opened a firewall rule, or configured a reverse proxy, and now you want to confirm that a specific port is actually reachable. The problem is that telnet isn’t installed, and installing an extra package just for a quick connectivity test feels unnecessary. The good news is that you don’t need telnet, because most Linux distributions already include tools that can test port connectivity, and some require no additional installation at all. Whether you’re troubleshooting a MySQL connection, checking if Nginx is listening on port 443, or verifying that a firewall change worked as expected, these…
The newly appointed CEO of CloudBees, Mo Plassnig, says that as the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) era dawns, the time has come to reinvent software engineering in a way that moves beyond human-centric tooling.Plassnig, who earlier this month succeeded Anuj Kapur, joins CloudBees from Immuta, a provider of a data security and governance platform, where he served as chief product officer. However, Plassnig was also one of the founders of Codeship, a provider of a hosted continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that CloudBees acquired in 2018.As the way applications are built and deployed fundamentally changes, DevOps workflows will…
HeroDevs this week revealed it has joined the Commonhaus Foundation as the founding member of the Open Source Sustainability Initiative (OSSI) after establishing partnerships with the open source Hibernate, Jackson, and Quarkus communities to provide commercial support for older versions of these frameworks.OSSI is a framework administered by the Commonhaus Foundation through which governance of open source software projects is provided.HeroDevs COO Rob Nalen said the provider of end-of-life support services for open source software sees a clear need to work more closely with maintainers of open source projects that don’t have the resources required to support enterprise IT organizations…
Undo today revealed that its platform for recording interactions within applications can now be accessed by artificial intelligence (AI) agents via a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.Company CEO Greg Law said this Undo AI capability makes it simpler for any agent to discover the root cause of any issue that otherwise would have required weeks or months to discover.That capability is now more critical than ever at a time when AI tools are generating massive amounts of code that is overwhelming the ability of humans to actually review, he added.The Undo platform records the complete execution of a program, including…
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Most organizations running CRM platforms eventually face the same challenge: how to deploy changes safely, consistently, and quickly. While Salesforce and Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CE) support modern DevOps practices, they approach application lifecycle management differently. Understanding these differences can help teams design more effective deployment pipelines and avoid common release issues. As these platforms become increasingly critical to business operations, the need for effective DevOps practices has grown significantly.Unlike traditional software applications, CRM platforms combine configuration, metadata, security models, workflows, integrations, and custom code into a single ecosystem. A deployment rarely consists of code alone. It often includes business…
Google Docs is probably one of the most widely used office suites in the world, but it’s far from the only option, and for Linux users who care about privacy and data control, it’s rarely the best one. One of the biggest reasons people use Google Docs is its simplicity, where you can create, edit, and share documents with others in real time, making collaboration easy. All you need is a Google account, and you get access to the entire Google Workspace ecosystem, including Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Meet, and Drive. That said, online office suites have come a…