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We launched Spotter with one goal: give every enterprise team their own analyst—an agent that reasons through business complexity, validates its own outputs, and surfaces answers you can actually act on. The response from customers made one thing clear: the ThoughtSpot foundation works. Teams trust Spotter, because it doesn’t only rely on an LLM to reconstruct your business logic on the fly—a process that produces different answers depending on how a question is phrased.

At GTC 2026, ClearML announced the general availability of its Platform Management Center, an administrative dashboard purpose-built for IT administrators and AI platform leaders managing multi-tenant ClearML deployments at enterprise scale. Available under the ClearML Enterprise plan, it gives cluster admins a single place to monitor every tenant’s activity, resource usage, and costs while protecting the privacy of tenant workloads and data.

Jonas Best & Patrick Polster Kafka migrations are one of the riskiest infrastructure projects a platform team can take on. Miss a dependency and a downstream app starts reprocessing events it already handled leading to breaking SLAs and eroding trust with application teams. Migrate without visibility and you risk a major production issue. The instinct is to reach for a replication tool and call it done. But replication is only one piece of the puzzle.

At Lenses, our goal has always been to help organizations get the most out of their streaming data. We started with visibility into the Apache Kafka, moving up to the part that drives value, the application layer and now the Agentic layer. Lenses 6 moved us into a multi-Kafka world, as increasing, our clients aren’t just running on one type of Kafka anymore, and as sovereign cloud becomes increasingly topical (no pun intended) this is only increasing.

Enterprises in 2026 are under increasing pressure to modernize applications, adopt hybrid cloud architectures, and streamline operations—but their expanding and aging VMware footprints have become a major obstacle. As VMware licensing models evolve and operational costs climb, reducing or restructuring this footprint has become just as critical as adopting new platforms.

First in a 3-part series on self-service K2K replication. This post tackles how to give self-service access to deploy K2K without handing over the keys to your Kafka clusters. Lenses developed K2K (Kafka-to-Kafka) to solve two major problems: This includes making it as self-service as possible so developers can deploy without requiring a PhD in MirrorMaker2. One key design requirement: don’t force engineers to manage credentials to authenticate with Kafka.

In today's state, local, and education (SLED) environments—especially higher education—budgets are under constant scrutiny, and the demand for data excellence is constant. That means doing more with fewer resources. One high-impact change to your data workflows that can transform the quality of your data and AI while lowering costs is automating and documenting data lineage.