Standardizing AI at Scale: llm-d Joins the CNCF
In a significant move toward solidifying the infrastructure for production-grade AI, the llm-d project is being contributed to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox initiative. This commitment, spearheaded by a multi-vendor coalition including CoreWeave, IBM Red Hat, Google, and NVIDIA, aims to establish an open standard for distributed inference. By integrating llm-d into the cloud … continue reading
RSA Conference Roundup: — DeepTempo open-source AI SOC; ArmorCode study, Black Duck Signal, Cribl background detection
Vigil: An Open-Source AI SOC Built with a LLM-native Architecture A new open source project, Vigil, launched at RSA today, enhances the transformative intelligence of rapidly advancing reasoning models, including Anthropic’s Claude. Available under an Apache 2.0 license, Vigil — created by DeepTempo — ships with13 specialized AI agents, 30+ integrations, and 7,200+ detection rules spanning … continue reading
Linux Foundation to Use $12.5M in Grant Funding to Advance Open Source Security
The Linux Foundation has announced it will use $12.5 million in grants to develop long-term, sustainable security solutions that support open source communities worldwide. This is necessary, the foundation said in its announcement, because rapid advances in AI have created a more complex security landscape with vulnerabilities being found in much greater numbers, leaving security teams … continue reading
Blind Spots in Hybrid IT: SolarWinds Report Finds 77% of IT
A critical misalignment between modern IT architecture and the monitoring and observability tools needed for full-stack visibility has led to those tools not being able to keep pace, according to the 2026 SolarWinds State of Monitoring & Observability report. The report found that: 77% of respondents cite limited visibility across on-prem and cloud environments 75% … continue reading
Lightrun Launches AI SRE With Live Dynamic Runtime Context
The reliability of software has grown as an issue with the massive adoption of AI agents and code assistants, moving developers from coding to issue remediation and the development bottleneck to runtime. Lightrun, a leader in software reliability, today announced a real-time AI SRE built on live runtime context, allowing AI agents and engineering teams … continue reading
NetBox Labs announces GA of NetBox Copilot to enhance IT automation
NetBox Labs, the commercial steward of the open-source NetBox project, has built a comprehensive platform around NetBox for network and infrastructure management. Today, the company is announcing the general availability of NetBox Copilot, an AI agent that sits inside the NetBox platform and enables organizations to interact with the NetBox data in natural language and … continue reading
Site reliability is becoming more about resilience, report finds
Site reliability is no longer proven by uptime alone, according to the results of The SRE Report 2026 issued by LogicMonitor through its recent acquisition of Catchpoint, which has run this report for eight years. “Reliability is becoming this idea of resilience. It’s about moving from uptime to performance to experience, from reliability to resilience,” … continue reading
12 new security vulnerabilities detected in OpenSSL using AI-driven discovery
Security researchers from AISLE have identified 12 new security vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, the widely adopted open-source library that underpins encryption, authentication and secure communications across the internet. The vulnerabilities are addressed in a coordinated OpenSSL security release published today, with patches now available to users and downstream software maintainers. According to its blog, the AISLE had … continue reading
LogicMonitor: Autonomous IT is closer than we think
Advanced observability and monitoring hold the key to autonomous IT, according to a summary of findings fron the 2026 Observability and AI Outlook for IT Leaders report from LogicMonitor. The monitoring of an enormous number of metrics, logs and alerts, coupled with the expanse of infrastructure beyond the data center into multiple cloud environments, has … continue reading
Snowflake to acquire Observe to improve its ITOM position, help customers proactively troubleshoot issues
AI data cloud company Snowflake today said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Observe, a leader in AI-powered observability. The acquisition will integrate Observe’s platform directly into Snowflake, expanding that company’s capabilities in the IT operations management market, valued at more than $50 billion, according to Gartner research. The combination of Observe’s AI Site … continue reading
IT Operations and Management predictions for 2026
Advancements in artificial intelligence in 2025 marked a seismic shift in how organizations can use the tools to automate IT processes, predict network interruptions and identify and remediate issues that could lead to poor performance, or worse, cybersecurity breaches. This article includes the thoughts of industry leaders as to what we might expect moving into … continue reading
LogicMonitor acquires Catchpoint in $250 million deal
AI-first observability platform provider LogicMonitor told announced it has finalized the acquisition of Catchpoint, creators of a digital experience and internet performance monitoring platform, to move observability from reactive to preventative. For years, infrastructure monitoring involved teams looking at screens and acting on alerts that pop up. This acquisition, according to LogicMonitor, is about staying … continue reading
