#xfg-stratus-variant

#xfg-stratus-variant

AI Armor provides dynamic runtime security and relies on a central policy engine in the Universal Management Suite (UMS) to meet compliance requirements, ensuring that organizations can manage their security effectively.

Uber's engineering team has transformed its data replication platform to move petabytes of data daily across hybrid cloud and on-premise data lakes, addressing scaling challenges caused by rapidly growing workloads. Built on Hadoop's open-source Distcp framework, the platform now handles over one petabyte of daily replication and hundreds of thousands of jobs with improved speed, reliability, and observability.

"For healthcare, government, and contact center environments, reducing risk at the endpoint is essential. By aligning IGEL's immutable endpoint OS and Adaptive Secure Desktop™ with Windows 365 and Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, these reference architectures give organizations clear guidance for delivering secured and resilient digital workspaces."

Red Hat AI Enterprise provides a foundation for modern AI workloads, including AI life-cycle management, high-performance inference at scale, agentic AI innovation, integrated observability and performance modeling, and trustworthy AI and continuous evaluation. Tools are provided for dynamic resource scaling, monitoring, and security.

Azure Governance is the set of policies, processes, and technical controls that ensure your Azure environment is secure, compliant, and well-managed. It provides a structured approach to organizing subscriptions, resources, and management groups, while defining standards for naming, tagging, security, and operational practices.

A North American manufacturer spent most of 2024 and early 2025 doing what many innovative enterprises did: aggressively standardizing on the public cloud by using data lakes, analytics, CI/CD, and even a good chunk of ERP integration. The board liked the narrative because it sounded like simplification, and simplification sounded like savings. Then generative AI arrived, not as a lab toy but as a mandate. "Put copilots everywhere," leadership said. "Start with maintenance, then procurement, then the call center, then engineering change orders."

An observability control plane isn't just a dashboard. It's the operational authority system. It defines alert rules, routing, ownership, escalation policy, and notification endpoints. When that layer is wrong, the impact is immediate. The wrong team gets paged. The right team never hears about the incident. Your service level indicators look clean while production burns.

This new reality is forcing organizations to undertake careful assessments before making platform decisions for AI. The days when IT leaders could simply sign off on wholesale cloud migrations, confident it was always the most strategic choice, are over. In the age of AI, the optimal approach is usually hybrid. Having openly championed this hybrid path even when it was unpopular, I welcome the growing acceptance of these ideas among decision-makers and industry analysts.

The Harness Resilience Testing platform extends the scope of the tests provided to include application load and disaster recovery (DR) testing tools that will enable DevOps teams to further streamline workflows.

The main advantage of going the Multi-Cloud way is that organizations can "put their eggs in different baskets" and be more versatile in their approach to how they do things. For example, they can mix it up and opt for a cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution when it comes to the database, while going the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) route for their application endeavors.