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CloudHealth Roundtable: Leadership Responds to the State of FinOps 2026

By TJ March
CloudHealth Roundtable: Leadership Responds to the State of FinOps 2026 On Thursday, February 19th, 2026, the FinOps Foundation released its 6th annual State of FinOps report, providing invaluable insights into the trends, challenges, and maturity of the FinOps discipline. In this blog, we share the discussion from our recent CloudHealth roundtable discussion where the leadership team reacted to the key findings of the report, offering their expert commentary and perspective on the current state of FinOps. Before the roundtable on Wednesday, February 25th, Cathal Cleary outlined CloudHealth's response to the trends and challenges highlighted ...
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Fresh from the Labs - CloudHealth Product Enhancements February 2026

By TJ March
Fresh from the Labs - CloudHealth Product Enhancements February 2026 The latest FinOps Foundation's State of FinOps report underscores the critical need for robust tools that provide granular cloud visibility, optimization capabilities, and a unified view across multi-cloud environments. As organizations mature in their FinOps practice, the complexity of managing cloud spend—especially across AWS, Azure, and GCP—demands solutions that simplify data curation, automate anomaly detection, and deliver actionable insights like commitment discount recommendations. This need was a central theme at the recent CloudHealth Roundtable, where industry leaders ...
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Client Automation R14.6 Linux 64Bit - Agent Certifications and CADSMCMD CommandLine Interface enhancement

By Sreekanth Chejarla
Title : Client Automation R14.6 Linux 64Bit - Agent Certifications and CADSMCMD CommandLine Interface enhancement Version: 14.6.0 Certifications: New platform certifications supported with this installation image are SuSe 16.x and RHEL/OEL 10.x when reported to 14.6 DM. While installing the agent, the installer may throw a warning message for a few platforms and can be ignored for the supported platforms mentioned in Supportability Matrix. Enhancements: CADSMCMD CommandLine Interface Support added to Client Automation Linux 64bit Agent installer. Follow the below patch solution for Instructions to apply the patch: Agent Patch Solution( 99112625 ...
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Ten Ways to Strengthen Operational Resilience and Simplify CPS 230 with a Secure Private Cloud in Australia

By Mark Cheetham
Facilitate APRA Compliance with VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Financial services institutions (FSIs) are constantly navigating the dual demands of accelerating innovation while maintaining strong governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance - especially in light of evolving APRA ( Australian Prudential Regulation Authority ) requirements. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 provides a unified platform that empowers FSIs to meet these demands. With industry leading lateral security , advanced compliance and ransomware recovery capabilities integrated into a secure, single and unified platform , alongside a variety of high availability topologies ...
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Why Perimeter Firewall is Not Enough: Lessons from the GoAnywhere MFT Zero-Day

By Michelle Plato
In September 2025, the cybercriminal group Storm-1175 exploited a zero-day vulnerability in GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer to deploy Medusa ransomware across multiple organizations. The attack succeeded despite perimeter defenses because no signature existed to detect it, and by the time one did, attackers had already established persistence and were moving freely through victim networks. This incident illustrates a fundamental truth: perimeter firewalls alone cannot protect modern enterprises. Organizations must adopt a defense-in-depth strategy that provides visibility across every phase of an attack. The Anatomy of a Zero-Day Attack What Is a ...
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What’s New in DX Operational Observability 26.1.1 (SaaS): Elevating Full-Stack Observability

By Ashish Aggarwal
In the rapidly evolving landscape of IT operations, observability is no longer about simply capturing monitoring data. By adding the power of AIOps, extending automation and enriching data with meaningful context, teams can quickly and confidently turn data into insights and actions. Prerequisite to all of this, of course, is superior monitoring data. With the latest Broadcom DX Operational Observability (DX O2) Release 26.1.1 , the AIOps and Observability team delivers significant enhancements for telemetry ingestion, infrastructure monitoring, and inventory management. For individual IT domain teams, SREs and for IT operations overall, these extend ...
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Mastering Greenplum Streaming Server: Simplifying Complex JSON Ingestion in Greenplum Database

By Pranav Tendolkar
Ingesting data from Kafka/Rabbit MQ into Greenplum often feels straightforward until you hit a real-world "catch" in the payload format. Recently, I spent significant time solving a challenge involving bank settlement data where a single Kafka message contained a JSON array of hundreds of transactions. Additionally, compliance rules dictated that raw account numbers could never be stored on disk—they had to be hashed immediately. While many developers default to adding a preprocessing microservice (like Kafka Streams or a Python consumer), Greenplum Streaming Server (GPSS) can handle this directly using UDF input transformers . The Core Strategy: ...
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The State of FinOps 2026: Why CloudHealth is Your Strategic Partner for the Next Era of Technology Value

By TJ March
The State of FinOps 2026: Why CloudHealth is Your Strategic Partner for the Next Era of Technology Value About the Author: Cathal Cleary (Product Leader, CloudHealth) The results of the FinOps Foundation's 2026 State of FinOps survey are officially in, and the message is clear: the discipline has evolved far beyond basic cloud cost-cutting. Today, FinOps is the "operating system" for managing technology value across AI, SaaS, and hybrid infrastructure. As I look at our recent 2025 releases and our 2026 roadmap, I am incredibly proud to see that CloudHealth isn’t just following these trends—we are defining them. Our product strategy is perfectly ...
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Patch Me OS Security Rollup and Office Security IntelliRollups for February, 2026(v2602.00)

By Sreekanth Chejarla
On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that rollups for February, 2026 are now available. The following rollups have been published: Rollups: CA - Patch Me - Security IntelliRollup v2602.00 CA - Office 32Bit - Security IntelliRollup v2602.00 CA - Office 64Bit - Security IntelliRollup v2602.00 These items will be available for acceptance in your Patch Manager GUI after the next successful run of the “Software Contents Download Job”. As of February 2026, Microsoft has fully discontinued Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows ...
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2025 in Review: A Year of Intelligence, Speed, and the new CloudHealth experience

By TJ March
2025 in Review: A Year of Intelligence, Speed, and the new CloudHealth experience About the Author: Cathal Cleary (Product Leader, CloudHealth) 2025 marked a truly transformative year for the CloudHealth platform. Building on the foundation laid in 2024, the platform saw the successful launch of the new CloudHealth experience . This release went far beyond the visible interface overhaul, delivering significant advancements in multi-cloud visibility, AI-driven assistance, and operational efficiency for our partners. In 2025 we released 70+ features with an emphasis on usability and reliability. 61% of all feature work was focused on the new CloudHealth ...
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Using Ansible To Automate Agent Deployment in DX UIM

By Scott Pieter
Using Ansible To Automate Agent Deployment in DX UIM With the emergence of full stack observability and AIOps, infrastructure monitoring, data and context, become even more important. To achieve your targets for scale, monitoring coverage and good governance, automation is key. With Ansible, you can streamline the installation, deployment and configuration of agents and robots used by DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM). Following the steps outlined in this guide can help you get started quickly and scale your DX UIM deployments more efficiently. What is Ansible and How Can It Assist Your Deployment of DX UIM ...
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Advancing Zero Trust Private Cloud with vDefend Lateral Security

By Michelle Plato
The “Invisible Corridor” Security doesn’t break all at once; it erodes in the shadows. The alert didn’t appear to be a crisis because, to your perimeter, everything looked normal. An authorized user, a permitted port, and a standard protocol—on paper was a valid connection. In reality, it was the “keys to the kingdom” being handed over. This is the new reality of East-West traffic: the most dangerous threats aren’t trying to break in; they are already inside, moving through the invisible corridors of your network. This is the new reality of the modern datacenter. It isn’t just about the “front door” anymore; it’s about the invisible corridors an attacker ...
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Windows OS and Office Security Individual Patches for February, 2026

By Sreekanth Chejarla
On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that individual patches for February, 2026 is now available. The following Individual patches have been published: 2026-02 Office - word2016-kb5002839-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-02 Office - excel2016-kb5002837-fullfile-x64-glb 2026-02 Office - excel2016-kb5002837-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-02 Office - word2016-kb5002839-fullfile-x64-glb 2026-02 Cumulative Update - Win10-Server2019-kb5075904-x64-1809 2026-02 Security Monthly Quality Rollup - Windows8-RT-kb5075971-x64 2026-02 Cumulative Update - Win10-kb5075904-x86-1809 ...
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General Availability of Nolio Release Automation Patch 6.9.3

By Pavel Sestak
Dear Nolio Community, We are excited to announce the General Availability of Nolio Release Automation Patch 6.9.3! This patch introduces critical enhancements and resolves several key issues, with a strong focus on improving infrastructure stability, optimizing server communication, and expanding authentication with support for multiple LDAP servers. It also delivers a faster user experience on key design pages, restores compatibility with Nexus 3, and bolsters security by upgrading core libraries including Java, Spring Framework, and Apache Tomcat. For more details and a complete list of updates included in this release, please refer to the 6.9.3 release ...
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Deploying Identity Security Platform in 3 simple steps

By Paul Toal
The Symantec Identity Security Platform (IDSP) is Broadcom’s modern, cloud-native, microservices-based enterprise identity and access management (IAM) platform. It’s built to address modern IAM requirements through an open standards, API-first architecture. After reading about it for some time and then finally joining Broadcom, I was eager to start working with the platform. It did not disappoint. When I joined Broadcom several months ago, I was looking forward to spending some time regaining familiarity with the products that I have not used in years, as well as getting up to speed on the new offerings. Having been in the Identity space for ...
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Fresh From the Labs: CloudHealth Product Updates January 2026

By TJ March
Fresh From the Labs: CloudHealth Product Updates January 2026 For many, January represents a new start. “New Year, new you.” The CloudHealth team, however, has decided to keep building on the incredible momentum it had in the second half of 2025. CloudHealth’s January product update boasts 8 new features for our customers and partners. Headlined by the Public Beta of Custom Datasets and the addition of Dashboards to Content Packages for our Partners, the team has been hard at work delivering impactful and meaningful improvements. Let’s dive into the January 2026 updates. In the New Experience Public Beta | Custom Datasets CloudHealth ...
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What Happens When Your Kubernetes Cluster Can't Find Its initial DNS Server?

By Jorg Mertin
In a healthy Kubernetes environment, the CoreDNS service is the silent resolver. It ensures that when your application tries to reach orders-db , it is routed to the correct internal IP. But what happens during those critical first seconds of a cluster start if your primary, configured DNS server is unreachable? Many engineers are surprised to find that instead of simply failing, the cluster often falls back to "Public Defaults" - specifically Google ( 8.8.8.8 ) and Cloudflare ( 1.1.1.1 ). While this keeps the cluster alive, it can create a “non critical” situation for security and internal service discovery. On critical in the way that the cluster ...
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Secure your Python deployments using Bitnami Secure Images minimal image

By Jota Martos
Bitnami minimal images are distroless and optimized containers designed to include only the essential components required to run an application, excluding shells and package managers. Key benefits are: Performance : Smaller sizes lead to faster startup and pull times. Security : A reduced attack surface means fewer vulnerabilities and components for potential exploits. Efficiency : Simpler maintenance due to fewer dependencies requiring patches or updates. Best use cases include production environments where security and performance are critical, workloads that are regulated or highly sensitive to security risks, or applications built with ...
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Doing More with Less RAM: Cut Privileged Access Costs Without Sacrificing Security or Scale

By Joe Burke
The global DRAM/RAM shortage has resulted in significant cost increases, +200% since August 2025. These higher prices are expected for the foreseeable future creating mounting pressure for organizations to reduce their overall memory consumption. CIOs and CISOs are challenged to extract as much value as possible out of existing infrastructure while keeping the environment secure in the face of rising threats and regulatory pressure. Many companies are now scrutinizing every available gigabyte deployed. Modern IT practices have fueled spikes in infrastructure demand and simultaneously boosted the need to continuously manage privileged accounts and ...
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The New CloudHealth Experience & the Operate Phase of the FinOps Framework

By TJ March
The New CloudHealth Experience & the Operate Phase of the FinOps Framework Originally Published: August 6, 2024 Starting in June, leading up to FinOps X in San Diego, the CloudHealth team has been teasing a new CloudHealth user experience . While in San Diego at FinOps X, those in attendance were lucky enough to get a tech preview of it live at the CloudHealth booth in the Expo. Throughout the Summer, we have been bringing the new user experience into the context of a user’s journey in cloud maturity, and aligning it to the FinOps Phases developed by the FinOps Foundation. At the beginning of July, my colleague did a deep dive into ...
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