Rogue workloads are the bane of most CIOs’ existence. They can blow through your cloud budget in a weekend. And they can sap available resources, threatening SLA commitments that can cut into revenues and send customers looking elsewhere.

If you’re on the Cloudera Data Platform, or CDP, there’s now an advanced toolset that can help CIOs optimize the performance of all their compute and storage assets, whether that’s in the major cloud services or on-premises datacenters. The next-gen observability toolset, appropriately enough, is called Cloudera Observability.

Read more in my column on DataDrivenInvestor’s Medium publication.

The European Commission has just proposed tearing down the existing convention for issuing standard-essential patents, or SEPs. In its place, Commissioners propose a system that awards royalties in favor of a start-from-scratch methodology that strips away a tried-and-true process that’s taken decades and a world of governments to build.

And for what? “Transparency.” Whatever that means.

Read my take on LinkedIn.