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
New cost optimization capabilities in LogicMonitor’s Envision platform
Tracking costs in hybrid infrastructure in increasingly difficult, and without the metrics to understand which resources within your cloud and on-premises are over- or underutilized, those costs can spiral out of control. Infrastructure observability provider LogicMonitor today announced LM Cost Optimization within its Envision platform, to give actionable insights that enable cost efficiencies for cloud … continue reading
Cycode launches ASPM marketplace
Cycode today launched what the company is calling a first-of-its-kind ASPM marketplace, enabling users to leverage more than 100 connectors and integrations to bring in findings from third-party security tools and eliminate gaps that can rise in supply chain security. Cycode’s announcement cited findings from The State of ASPM 2024 report that show 77% of … continue reading
ScienceLogic unveils Autonomic IT for business transformation
ScienceLogic today announced the release of capabilities that bring together data, AI and automation for a new approach to IT Operations — Autonomic IT. Autonomic IT, which the company calls the next wave of IT monitoring and management, enables enterprises to focus on innovation and driving revenue by creating an IT operation that powers an … continue reading
Octopus Deploy releases features to simplify Kubernetes continuous delivery
Octopus Deploy has recently launched new features to help simplify Kubernetes continuous delivery at scale. “Kubernetes is powerful but gets complicated when deploying hundreds or thousands of applications,” Colin Bowern, SVP of Product at Octopus Deploy, said in the company’s announcement. “Challenges like managing environments, lack of pipeline visibility, and compliance get more complex at … continue reading
