Container security company Edera is working to improve application-level memory safety in Linux with the release of OpenPaX, an open source kernel patch that mitigates common memory safety errors. It was initially created to benefit Edera’s own customers, but the company decided to open source it to make it available to the broader community. The …
The observability company Cloud Canaries has announced the launch of Observability Canaries, enabling teams to enhance their existing observability tools with OpenTelemetry. By integrating observability tools with OpenTelemetry, teams get access to a “readily available, additional data source for model creation, alarming, forecast generation and validation,” Cloud Canaries wrote in its announcement. According to the …
Network observability platform Kentik today released Cloud Latency Map, a free tool that provides insights into latency in over 100 different cloud regions around the world. According to Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik and the creator of the Cloud Latency Map, this new tool can help IT teams determine if a connectivity …
Earlier this year, Lenovo and Cisco announced that they were collaborating to bring their customers workplace solutions that incorporate generative AI and improve enterprise productivity. Now, the two companies are revealing several new offerings that have come about through this partnership. First, they announced TruScale Meeting Room as a Service (TS MRaaS), which is a …
More streamlined IT and security collaboration is something the industry has been moving toward for the better part of the past decade, but thanks to some recent changes in organizational reporting structures (i.e., the CIO emerging as the de facto leader for IT and cybersecurity) and a convergence of in-demand IT/security skills, the relationship between …
There are plenty of great things about working in ITSM — for example, working closely with end users, making their lives easier and solving problems. But we’d be lying if we said it was always “smooth sailing.” Working in ITSM can be very challenging, as these professionals deal with everything from security scares, to highly …
Gartner is predicting that IT spending will continue to grow in 2025. Specifically, they predict a 9.3% increase from this year, with the total spending equaling $5.74 trillion. Generative AI investments are driving data center spending, which grew by 34.7% in 2024, and represented the biggest increase of the various IT spending categories. Gartner doesn’t …
The average cost of IT outages has increased to $1.9 million per hour, with the median downtime for a high-impact outage being 77 hours. This is according to observability company New Relic’s newly released 2024 Observability Forecast, which surveyed 1,700 IT professionals from 16 countries. Just a decade ago, Gartner reported that the average cost …
Red Hat has announced the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), its platform for developing, testing, and running LLMs. “Building on the success of our initial release of RHEL AI 1.1 on September 5, 2024, this version furthers our commitment to empowering developers, AI engineers and data scientists by lowering the …
The driving force behind passkeys, the FIDO Alliance, is working to make passkeys even easier to adopt by publishing new working drafts of specifications for secure credential exchange, a format for transferring different types of credentials in a credential manager. Passkeys have significant momentum at this moment of time, with over 12 billion online accounts …
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today announced that KubeEdge, an open-source edge computing project built on Kubernetes, has achieved graduation status. KubeEdge, according to the CNCF, expands the cloud native ecosystem to scenarios and industries outside of data centers by bringing the container orchestration and scheduling capabilities of Kubernetes to the edge. Further, it delivers edge …
Zero trust is broken. Not because it’s a bad idea, but because most organizations are applying it wrong. If your security still depends on humans to approve access requests, verify identities, and respond to threats, you’re already behind. Zero trust’s core principle—trust no one, verify everything—breaks down when manual processes are too slow, error-prone, and …
The AI development platform ClearML is making it even easier for companies with multiple teams working on AI solutions to get the infrastructure they need. GPU-as-a-Service provides access to large on-premise or cloud computing clusters that are multi-tenant so that multiple teams can work off them. ClearML tracks compute consumption, data storage, API calls, and …
AWS has released a new solution designed to make it easier to get started with infrastructure automation. AWS Console-to-Code allows users to record the console actions they are performing and have those actions converted to code for later use. Code can be generated in several different infrastructure-as-code (IaC) formats, like an AWS CloudFormation template (YAML …
In this microwebinar series with Broadcom, Jeremy Rossbach, Chief Technical Evangelist for NetOps, provides essential insights and actionable strategies for network operations and explores practical strategies to enhance network resilience and accountability, achieve advanced visibility across hybrid environments, and transition from basic monitoring to comprehensive network observability for optimized performance. …
AI’s Impact on Network Engineering and Operations Join Phil Gervasi from Kentik for this insightful 15-minute microwebinar where we will dive straight into the essential aspects of AI and uncover the practical realities of its application in network engineering, netops, and network architecture. …
There’s a lot of buzz about AI in networking, but it can’t be real…right? Join our webinar where we’ll explore both the potential and the limitations of AI, providing a balanced view on its practical applications. By the end of this webinar, you’ll have a clear understanding of where AI can genuinely add value and …
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WATCH THE FULL SERIES Every business today relies on the Internet for critical business operations, and IT professionals must ensure Internet Resilience for their company’s customers and workforce. But what does that mean and how can they monitor everything in the digital delivery chain when so much is out of their control? The answer: Internet Performance …
AVAILABLE NOW | Hype continues to build around artificial intelligence and its implications for business and our everyday lives. But seven years after Gartner coined the term AIOps–artificial intelligence for IT operations–just what is the state of AIOps development and adoption in the enterprise IT world? To find out, OpsRamp commissioned a survey of enterprise …