FinOps Foundation releases spec for uniform cloud billing
The FinOps Foundation today announced the availability of FOCUS – the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification – version 1, created to provide a uniform format for cloud billing across the different providers. The world’s top cloud providers – Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle – have contributed to the development of the specification, which has … continue reading
SUSE updates Linux servers, cloud native and edge technologies
As organizations continue to transform themselves with generative AI, cloud native and edge technologies, SUSE today announced new enhancements and innovations to its offerings. Among them are the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Service Pack 6, which the company said future-proofs IT workloads with a new Long Term Service Pack Support Core that … continue reading
Pure Storage platform innovations keep pace with AI’s evolution
Data storage services provider Pure Storage today announced new capabilities to its platform, including storage automation and a generative AI copilot that help businesses accelerate AI deployments. The company also announced new storage-as-a-service service-level agreements (SLAs) for its platform for cyber recovery, resilience, and site balance. A recent Innovation Race survey commissioned by Pure Storage … continue reading
Tigera announces Calico-based lightweight service mesh
Project Calico creator Tigera today has announced Calico Cluster Mesh, a lightweight service mesh created to ensure low-latency networking and security for multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments. According to Tigera, Calico Cluster Mesh “hides network complexity and simplifies service connectivity” for platform owners, DevOps teams, and SREs, by taking a new approach to secure microservices communication. Among … continue reading
Report: Gap between FinOps and DevOps/engineering teams widens
A new report reveals that as companies are building cultures of collaboration and alignment between FinOps and DevOps teams, there is a growing chasm between the teams as to responsibility for cloud costs. When FinOps drives business culture, project teams are responsible for their cloud usage, which allows organizations to align costs of product development … continue reading
AI and the IT talent gap
The systems that organizations manage have grown exponentially. The advance of cloud computing and the need for technology modernization over the past few years has created more demand from people. All this has led to an IT talent gap. I recently spoke with Mehdi Daoudi, founder and CEO of internet resiliency company Catchpoint about this … continue reading
New Relic report: AI driving need for IT, telco observability
A new report by observability platform provider New Relic highlights the importance of having full-stack observability for the IT and telecommunications industry. The State of Observability for IT and Telecommunications report found that the top trends driving adoption of full-stack observability are the development of cloud-native application architectures (48%), adoption of AI technologies (43%), migration … continue reading
Bugcrowd acquires Informer, enhancing attack surface management and pen testing
Bugcrowd, a leading provider of crowdsourced security, today announced it has acquired Informer, which offers external attack surface management (ASM) and continuous penetration testing. The move will enable Bugcrowd to expand its solution in the ASM market, which is estimated to be $3.3 billion by 2029. ASM is a critical aspect of an overall cybersecurity … continue reading
Puppet delivers enhanced infrastructure automation for a new operating reality
Infrastructure automation provider Puppet by Perforce has added new security, compliance, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities to its platform offering. Infrastructure resilience, improved agility and aligning with business goals are the critical focus for infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders. According to a recent Gartner I&O Leaders Survey, the most important services I&O leaders need … continue reading
Octopus Deploy announces extension for GitHub Copilot
Continuous delivery platform provider Octopus Deploy has announced a GitHub Copilot Extension that increases efficiency and helps developers stay in the flow. The Octopus extension responds to plain text chat queries from Copilot with relevant information from customers’ Octopus instances, making it simpler to connect Octopus and GitHub for deployments. The Octopus extension, the company … continue reading
Logz.io launches Observability IQ, introduces AI-driven IQ Assistant
With the goal of turning observability into a conversation, platform provider Logz.io today announced the launch of Observability IQ, its AI strategy and roadmap, and introduced IQ Assistant, an AI-driven, chat-based capability. According to the company announcement, Logz.io IQ Assistant can answer users’ questions in a conversational way, providing detailed responses to natural language queries … continue reading
IBM announces Rapid Network Automation
IBM is announcing Rapid Network Automation, a low-code API-driven tool for automating, integrating and connecting infrastructure throughout a hybrid cloud environment. The tool, which was developed after IBM acquired Pliant in March, turns API code into deployable blocks that Rapid Network Automation can assemble and integrate to ensure communication across the technology stack between platforms, … continue reading
