Author: David Rubinstein

David Rubinstein is editor-in-chief of ITOps Times and SD Times.

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This Week in AI Updates: Spacelift infrastructure provisioning, Grafana observability updates, ScienceLogic enhancements
ByDavid Rubinstein October 8, 2025

Grafana Labs today announced the general availability of Grafana Assistant, a context-aware AI agent, along with the public preview of AI-powered Grafana Assistant Investigations, which extends Grafana Assistant to accelerate multi-step incident investigations. “AI is transforming every part of the software lifecycle, and observability is no exception,” said Tom Wilkie, CTO at Grafana Labs. “With Grafana Assistant… … continue reading

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Progress Software updates Flowmon ADS (anomaly detection system)
ByDavid Rubinstein September 25, 2025

Progress Software today announced the release of Progress Flowmon ADS 12.5, the latest version of its advanced anomaly detection system. Flowmon ADS 12.5 introduces AI-driven capabilities that give deep visibility into the network, enabling organizations to more rapidly detect any threats to the system and improve Mean Time to Repair, as well as for proactive… … continue reading

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Kubernetes is mature, but organizational operations are not, study finds
ByDavid Rubinstein September 18, 2025September 25, 2025

While Kubenetes adoption is nearly universal, a new study from Komodor reveals that slow recovery, inflated cloud bills, and customers exposed to outages are pushing up costs and adding to risk. According to Komodor, the key finding is that while Kubernetes is mature, organizational operations are not. “Organizations have made Kubernetes their standard, but our… … continue reading

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Solo.io announces kagent enterprise
ByDavid Rubinstein September 15, 2025

Context. It’s become a critical piece that organizations need to get the most of out agentic AI efforts. When looking at cloud native application delivery, Kubernetes is the gold standard, but according to AI platform provider Solo.io, it doesn’t have the contextual awareness necessary for all that’s needed to run AI applications securely and at… … continue reading

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This Week in AI Updates: F5 acquires CalypsoAI; CIQ-NVIDIA collaboration (September 12, 2025)
ByDavid Rubinstein September 12, 2025

F5 has announced its intent to acquire enterprise AI security company CalypsoAI, whose award-winning platform brings real-time threat defense, red teaming at scale, and data security to enterprises racing to deploy generative and agentic AI. These capabilities will be integrated into the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) to create the most complete solution… … continue reading

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Cisco announces Splunk-powered Agentic AI innovations
ByDavid Rubinstein September 10, 2025

Splunk this week is announcing three new products around data fabric, security and observability powered by Agentic AI at its .conf25 event. The company, which was acquired by Cisco in March 2024, announced Cisco Data Fabric, designed to unlock siloed and fragmented machine data — from the edge, cloud and hybrid environments — to provide… … continue reading

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Azul launches Managed Services Program for Partners
ByDavid Rubinstein July 29, 2025July 28, 2025

Java management company Azul today begins offering its Managed Services Provider Program that allows MSPs to embed Azul’s Intelligence Cloud into their Java advisory, license management, security operations and DevOps services. The Intelligence Cloud provides partners with Java inventory, vulnerability and code use analytics, as well as unique reporting and insights into active Java Virtual… … continue reading

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Opsera, Databricks expand partnership with DevOps for DataOps, Cloudera joins AI-RAN Alliance, and more: ITOps News Digest
ByDavid Rubinstein June 5, 2025June 30, 2025

AI-powered DevOps platform provider Opsera today announced the expansion of its Databricks partnership with the launch of its DevOps for DataOps capability, a Built on Databricks solution. Customers of Opsera and Databricks can use the solution to orchestrate end-to-end analytics and streamline delivery pipelines, the company wrote in its announcement. This is done through the… … continue reading

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Red Hat Summit news: RHEL 10, OpenShift Lightspeed
ByDavid Rubinstein May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

Red Hat today made several announcements at its Summit event, including the announcements of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 and OpenShift Lightspeed, both infused with AI to meet the demands of today’s hybrid environments and AI workloads. RHEL 10 introduces Lightspeed, which brings generative AI into the platform’s command line to help users with… … continue reading

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OneTrust creates governance solution for AI-ready data
ByDavid Rubinstein May 8, 2025May 30, 2025

OneTrust today announced its Data Use Governance solution, which it said is designed to close the gap between traditional data governance and the real-time compliance demands of AI. The solution provides such things as programmatic data policies and enforcement along with automated data controls to speed data enablement for a company’s AI efforts. “The future of governance… … continue reading

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Nutanix announces Cloud Native AOS, partners with Pure Storage for mission-critical workloads
ByDavid Rubinstein May 7, 2025May 6, 2025

Nutanix, at its .NEXT user conference today, extends its enterprise storage and data services to Kubernetes and bare metal servers with the introduction of Cloud Native AOS, its platform for workload management. According to the company’s announcement, “As data becomes more distributed, users are looking for a consistent way to protect, replicate and restore data… … continue reading

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ArmorCode introduces Anya, its agentic AI solution for security teams
ByDavid Rubinstein April 28, 2025April 29, 2025

ArmorCode today released its agentic AI solution, Anya, for AppSec and product security teams. The point of Anya was to create a conversational, virtual security champion that can look at data from hundreds of code, app, cloud and infrastructure scans to provide insights that lead to action. “Anya is a governance layer over the scanners,”… … continue reading

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