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Cost and business impact

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The AI Hype Is Colliding with Reality

March 24, 2026

MIT studied 300 public AI deployments and found that 95% of enterprise AI pilots deliver no measurable P&L impact. The pattern behind the 5% that work is not better models or bigger budgets. It is specificity: solving one painful operational problem instead of bolting generic AI onto existing workflows.

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The Real Cost of Database Incidents

March 17, 2026

When a database goes down, the first question is always "how do we fix it?" The question that rarely gets asked until later, sometimes much later, is "what did that actually cost us?" The answer is usually worse than anyone expected.

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How to Reduce Database MTTR

March 6, 2026

The average database incident takes 3 to 5 hours to resolve. Best-in-class teams consistently do it in under 60 minutes. The difference almost never comes down to technical skill. It comes down to whether the investigation workflow exists before the incident does.

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Budget-Ready Infrastructure Report

March 1, 2026

The report you wish you had when finance asks what you need next year. A sample capacity assessment, showing how Sixta turns database growth into a budget case.

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AI isn't a bubble. It's a correction.

December 15, 2025

The current AI investment cycle looks different from previous tech bubbles. A look at why the infrastructure layer is where the real value compounds — and what that means for operations.

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The gap between troubleshooting data and strategic intelligence

March 18, 2025

As database estates grow more complex, teams cobble together CloudWatch, observability tools, and CUR data — generating data without increasing visibility. Why the next layer of database intelligence needs to work differently.

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