The AWS Heroes program celebrated its 10-year anniversary this year, having grown into a program of over 200 AWS experts recognized for sharing their knowledge and expertise of AWS technology with the community. According to David Nalley, director of open source strategy and marketing at AWS, the program originally started because the company noticed that …
Groundcover, the eBPF-powered observability platform, has announced a new integration with OpenTelemetry, which will provide customers with deeper insights into performance, user behavior, and errors. The company uses eBPF technology to provide observability for cloud-native architecture, and it can trace any type of event from network and infrastructure to services and applications. The company explained …
A 2025 Data Infrastructure Survey Report from DataStrike found that internal IT teams are struggling with modern data management due to limited resources available to them. According to the report, 55% of the survey respondents rely only on internal teams to manage their data infrastructure, with only 19% reporting that they outsource. As a result, …
Mastering Kubernetes health and performance goes beyond the initial setup. The real challenge starts on Day 2, where operations teams must engage in a continuous cycle of monitoring, identifying, and resolving issues before they disrupt operations. This involves addressing two types of issues: critical real-time problems that can lead to immediate downtime, and ongoing reliability …
As we do every year, we’ve heard from folks in the I&O industry who share their thoughts on which areas will thrive and which might not survive in 2025 and beyond. Here are some of their predictions for next year. Aislinn Wright, VP of product management at EDB In 2025, enterprises will increasingly …
Quantum computing is no longer a dream far off in the future; it may be right around the corner. Gartner predicts that by 2029, quantum computing will advance to the point that it will render traditional cryptography unsafe. The encryption that we currently rely on to protect data is only effective because our current classic …
Synopsys has announced the launch of Ultra Ethernet IP and UALink IP solutions that are designed to meet the demands required to scale AI architectures. “For more than 25 years, Synopsys has been at the forefront of providing best-in-class IP solutions that enable designers to accelerate the integration of standards-based functionality,” said Neeraj Paliwal, senior …
GitGuardian has announced a new security solution that targets Non-Human Identities (NHI), like API keys, credentials, access tokens. According to GitGuardian, NHIs outnumber human identities 50 to 1, and companies often end up with NHIs scattered across their codebases, CI/CD pipelines, and productivity tools. With GitGuardian NHI Governance, companies gain visibility into where these NHIs …
Emotional intelligence (EI) has become one of the most sought-after soft skills in the IT industry, especially at the management level. The ability to understand and manage emotions — both one’s own and those of others — is critical in many areas of IT, from support services and user experience (UX) to cross-functional leadership and …
The latest version of the open source service mesh Linkerd is now available, with three major features being added to this 2.17 release: egress traffic visibility and control, rate limiting, and federated services. This release is the first new version of Linkerd since the company changed the release model back in February, stating that stable …
Tenable has announced the release of a new tool to help companies more quickly close vulnerability exposures. According to a recent survey from Tenable, only 9% of respondents believe that they are effective at vulnerability remediation, and only 11% believe their process is efficient. The process of identifying, testing, and installing remediation patches is also …
The number of respondents reporting they are acting proactively to address IT incidents has increased from 35% in 2020 to 68% this year, according to Atlassian’s recently released 2024 State of Incident Management report. Atlassian defines proactive organizations as those that use monitoring, alerting and communication tools; does formal incident response training; and uses AI …
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a number of new storage capabilities, such as new Amazon EC2 instances and a new storage class for FSx in OpenZFS file systems. Amazon EC2 I8g instances are new EC2 instances optimized for storage, powered by 3rd gen AWS Nitro SSDs and AWS Graviton processors. They offer up to 65% …
Trust seems like a quality that would be inherent in any golden retriever or boy scout, but what about your cyber resilience strategy? When faced with an ever-increasing amount of cyberattacks, do you trust the people, technology and procedures in place? Resiliency requires planning and constant testing. The notion of trust is becoming increasingly vital …
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 …
AVAILABLE NOW | For years, technology vendors have promoted the ‘single pane of glass’ as a silver bullet for service-oriented management. The promise was simple: buy this mega-suite of tools and get a single view of your IT environment. Unfortunately, the promise of a single pane of glass for IT operations and management has resulted …
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 …