NEW YORK, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — SitusAMC is pleased to announce the release of its latest quarterly research report, ValTrends, offering data-driven insights into commercial real estate (CRE), valuation trends, space market fundamentals, and investor sentiment. The quarter’s report, titled Fog on the Tracks, explores how ongoing economic uncertainty, volatility in public markets, and a pullback in deal activity are shaping investor behavior. While CRE investors pause for the fog to clear, certain indicators point toward green shoots on the track, especially for quality multifamily property.

The report, authored by Peter Muoio, PhD, Head of SitusAMC Insights, and Jen Rasmussen, PhD, Vice President, SitusAMC Insights, combines proprietary market research with exclusive survey data from institutional investors to provide a comprehensive analysis of capital market conditions and current state of CRE valuations.

Key takeaways include:

Investor Sentiment & Market Outlook: While investors consider CRE a safe haven, widespread economic uncertainty and erratic equity market performance have led them to adopt a cautious, wait-and-see approach. Even though deal activity continues to slow, making valuations more challenging, early signs of recovery are emerging. Select CRE sectors are showing improving returns and tapering supply, setting the stage for potential rebound in rent growth.Capital Market Trends: Signs of Stability EmergeInvestor sentiment toward CRE improved in Q1 as the asset class was increasingly viewed as a safe haven following early April policy announcements and equity market chaos.Debt and equity capital became more disciplined amid heightened policy uncertainty and after a relaxing of standards in 2024.CRE cap and discount rates did not move much; remained flat in Q1.After signs of a market thaw in 2024, investor recommendations to hold assets jump amid the current state of political and economic uncertainty.Sector Preferences: As investors seek stability amid ongoing market ambiguity, preferences are shifting sharply. Apartments surged to the top of investor rankings with the strongest sentiment recorded in over a decade, buoyed by low new supply and consistent returns. Apartments have seen four consecutive quarters of positive returns. Retail followed behind, viewed as a steady performer insulated from economic uncertainty. Office remained at the bottom of investor rankings.

“The quarter’s findings illustrate a CRE market in flux,” said Muoio. “Investors are prioritizing resilience and stability as they navigate an uncertain market environment. Apartments stand out as a favored asset class thanks to limited supply and sustained demand. Meanwhile, office continues to struggle, though early signs of stabilization are appearing in some sectors.”

The full report also includes in-depth assessment performance data for all sectors, including total return, occupancy change, and rent growth, as well as anonymized commentary from institutional investors and strategic insight to help market participants make informed decisions for their investments.

The release of this thought leadership report reinforces SitusAMC’s commitment to providing deep insights, analysis, and intelligence that power the full lifecycle of real estate finance. The report is invaluable to those seeking to stay informed and competitive in today’s fast-paced business environment.

The report can be downloaded here: SitusAMC ValTrends 1Q25

About SitusAMC
SitusAMC is a leading independent provider of strategic outsourcing, advisory, talent, and technology solutions to the commercial and residential real estate finance industries. The company helps clients identify and capture opportunities in their real estate businesses through industry-leading solutions that drive operational efficiency, increase business effectiveness, and improve market agility across the entire lifecycle of their global real estate activity. For more information visit www.SitusAMC.com.

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The event will unite observability leaders, developers, and end users to drive progress in observability tools and best practices

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the full schedule for Open Observability Summit.

Announced last month, the new event will take place June 26, 2025 in Denver, Colorado as a co-located event at Open Source Summit North America. Running alongside OTel Community Day, Open Observability Summit will convene observability practitioners, developers, and contributors to explore vendor neutral best practices, align on standards, and examine emerging trends like AI-powered observability.

“Observability is a necessity at cloud native scale,” said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF. “In a fast-paced, competitive environment, organizations cannot afford downtime, blind spots, or fragile systems. This event creates a vendor neutral space for the open source observability community to come together, collaborate and foster innovation.”

The schedule features keynotes, sessions, and lightning talks designed to support observability practitioners, developers, and maintainers working together to innovate. Attendees will gain insight into end-to-end observability strategies, understand how leading teams are using OpenTelemetry and AI to manage complexity, and connect with peers tackling similar challenges across industries.

Highlighted sessions include:

Building Composable OTel Pipelines: CI/CD, Testing, Team-First, and Scalable Design – Anil Kuncham & Joe Canuel, DoorDashFaster Insights and Improved Accuracy: Spotify’s Prometheus Upgrade – Lauren Roshore, SpotifyWeaving Legacy and OpenTelemetry: A Schema Strategy With Weaver – Andrew Wang, Comcast CableTelemetry Showdown: Fluent Bit Vs. OpenTelemetry Collector – A Comprehensive Benchmark Analysis – Henrik Rexed, DynatraceObservability-First DevSecOps: Building Resilient Multi-Cloud Pipelines With OpenTelemetry and GitOps – Ravindra Bhargava, UPS

The sessions reflect the community’s top priorities, from scaling telemetry pipelines to integrating observability into platform engineering workflows. Building on the momentum from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, where observability dominated discussions, Open Observability Summit offers a timely opportunity for organizations to address growing operational complexity, boost system reliability, and connect with the practitioners and contributors driving innovation across the ecosystem.

Datadog has joined Chronosphere and the OpenSearch Foundation as a Strategic Partner sponsor, further highlighting continued investment in growing a vibrant, standards-based observability ecosystem. As a leading observability platform, DataDog provides end-to-end visibility across infrastructure, applications, and logs, and plays an active role in promoting open standards.

Sponsorship opportunities will remain available until May 27. Review the prospectus here.

Learn more about Open Observability Summit and to view the full schedule here.

Standard registration is live and offered at US$249 through June 10, which represents a savings of US$150. A reduced registration rate is available for current full time students and faculty. Learn more here.

Members of the press who would like to request a press pass to attend should contact pr@cncf.io.

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NEW YORK, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — EaseUS, a leading provider of data recovery, file backup, and disk management solutions, has unveiled its Windows System Drive Usage Report 2025 Q1, offering critical insights into global system disk usage trends, drive preferences, and future storage demands.

This report is based on data collected by EaseUS software in March 2025, covering an initial sample of 884,305 Windows system disks, with 117,198 disks retained after filtering. The dataset represents global Windows users, with the largest user bases located in Europe, the Americas (North and South), and Asia.

1. Key Insights

System Disk Type: SSDs are dominant, with 84.41% of users using them as system drives, while only 15.59% of users use HDDs.Partition Format: GPT is the preferred format, enabling better performance and capacity management.System Disk Partition Count: Most systems have 3 – 4 partitions on the primary disk, including the C: drive, recovery partitions, and EFI system partitions.C Drive File System: NTFS remains the standard file system for C: drives, offering better security, permissions, and compatibility.C Drive Capacity: The majority of SSD users allocate between 128GB and 256GB for the C drive (37.23%), while HDD users typically assign larger capacities, with 32.28% allocating 256GB – 512GB and 27.01% opting for 512GB – 1 TB.BitLocker Status: Only a minority of users enable BitLocker, suggesting a gap in data security awareness or compatibility issues.Drive Manufacturer: The SSD market is fragmented with leaders like Samsung, Crucial, and Kingston. HDDs are dominated by Seagate, Western Digital, and Toshiba, holding nearly 80% market share.

2. Future Trend

Standardize on GPT and SSD: Continued transition from MBR to GPT and HDD to SSD is expected, driven by performance and capacity needs.Encourage Larger C: Drives: With growing OS and software demands, allocating more space to C: drives is increasingly critical.Promote BitLocker Adoption: Enhancing awareness of BitLocker could improve overall data security across user bases.Optimize Partitioning Practices: Users should be guided to manage recovery, EFI, and system partitions more effectively to avoid wasted space.

As SSDs continue to gain popularity due to their superior speed, reliability, and performance, users are increasingly turning to them for system drives. To learn more about upgrading, replacing, or managing SSDs and HDDs, please visit the official EaseUS website: https://www.easeus.com

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