Valkey 9 GA: DACH Ops Teams 18 Months After Redis Split
Valkey 9 is GA. What the Linux Foundation fork delivers 18 months after the Redis split, for whom the migration …
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Platform Engineering 2026: Why IDPs Are the New CI/CD
Platform Engineering 2026 Mainstream. Backstage, Port.io, Humanitec. What a modern IDP delivers and how to build it.
SAP Sovereign Cloud France: Impact on German IT Decision-Makers
SAP launches its sovereign cloud in France with Bleu (Orange + Capgemini) and SecNumCloud certification. Implications for German companies, Delos …
Valkey 9 After 18mo: Redis Fork Reshapes Cloud Cache
Since October 2025, Valkey 9 has been handling over 1 billion requests per second and has replaced Redis as the …
S/4HANA Done? Don’t Forget Data Decommissioning
Nearly half of DACH SAP users plan to continue running ECC beyond 2027. But those who migrate often forget about …
Synology DS1525+: 5-Bay Hybrid Cloud NAS with Containers & ECC
The Synology DS1525+ is no longer just a conventional NAS. With Container Manager, Hybrid Share, and an AMD Ryzen V1500B …
Minisforum MS-01: Edge Server with 10GbE, PCIe Slot and 13W Idle
Minisforum MS-01 review: 10GbE, PCIe slot, and 13W idle. Edge server for homelab and Kubernetes from €459 barebone.
Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q Tiny Gen 5: AMD PRO Mini PC for Edge
Lenovo M75q Tiny Gen 5: AMD PRO, DASH remote management, MIL-STD-810H, 5W idle. Enterprise edge PC from €600.
QNAP TS-464: 4-Bay NAS with Docker, HDMI & PCIe Slot
QNAP TS-464 review: Docker, HDMI 2.0, PCIe slot, and native 2.5GbE—features Synology lacks in this 4-bay class.
Framework Laptop 16: Modular Developer Laptop with Swappable GPU
Framework Laptop 16 review: Swappable GPU modules, 6 port slots, open-source firmware. Developer laptop from $1,299.
AI Inference Costs: FinOps for Cloud GPU Workloads
55% of the AI budget goes to inference. Five FinOps strategies that reduce GPU costs by 30-40%.
TP-Link Omada ER8411: 10GbE VPN Router with SDN Under €420
TP-Link Omada ER8411: Powerful VPN router with 10GbE, 7 protocols, 10 WAN links, and free SDN controller under €420.
Vector DBs for RAG: Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Qdrant vs pgvector
pgvector handles 80% of RAG use cases. When Pinecone, Qdrant, or Weaviate are worth the investment.
European Commission Hacked: 350GB AWS Breach – 2nd in 30 Days
The European Commission confirmed on March 30 that attackers had compromised its public web infrastructure hosted on Amazon AWS. More …
AI-Generated Terraform Code: The Cloud Stack’s Hidden Risk
AI-generated Terraform code is faster to write than to read – exactly what makes it dangerous. Teams delegating their Infrastructure-as-Code …
The Bitter Lesson for the AI Stack: 4 Audit Points Before…
Most enterprise AI stacks are over-engineered contraptions: thousands of tokens in system prompts, multi-stage RAG pipelines, hard-coded business rules, and …
RAG vs Fine-Tuning vs Prompt Eng: Best AI for Cloud
RAG, fine-tuning, or prompt engineering? The decision depends on data freshness, latency, and compliance - not hype cycles.
Edge Computing for Retail: Auto Stores Need Local Processing
Guest author: Thomas Joos, IT journalist & analyst | In collaboration with Kontron / Profil PR Automated stores and micro …
OpenTofu vs. Terraform: IBM Acq. Impact on Your Infrastructure
IBM acquired HashiCorp for $6.4 billion. Terraform now operates under the Business Source License (BSL). And OpenTofu – the open-source …
NIS2 & SaaS: Why Supply Chain Becomes Biggest Compliance Gap
Since December 2025, the NIS2 Implementation Act has applied. Around 29,500 companies are affected, but only 38 percent have registered …
SAP Sovereign Cloud France: March 19, 2026 for German IT Leaders
SAP launches its Sovereign Cloud in France with Bleu (Orange + Capgemini) and SecNumCloud certification. Implications for German enterprises, Delos …
Ingress-NGINX EOL: Cloud Teams Migrate to Gateway API
As of March 2026, Ingress-NGINX is officially end-of-life. No patches, no security updates, no bug fixes. The Kubernetes project has …
Disaster Recovery as a Service: Practical Guide for SME IT Teams
The database server has been down for 40 minutes, management is asking for the third time when operations will resume, …
AI Cloud Costs Spiraling: GPU Workloads Blow Budgets
One in three companies in Germany is already spending more on cloud-based AI services than originally budgeted. The cause isn’t …
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