IBM acquires FinOps company Apptio
IBM’s acquisition of Apptio will enable clients to benefit from the synergy between Apptio and IBM, creating opportunities for added volume, according to IBM in a post. The deal combines Apptio’s leading FinOps solutions, such as ApptioOne, Cloudability, and Targetprocess, with IBM’s automation tools like Turbonomic, AIOps, and Instana. This integration creates a “virtual command … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Dagger
Dagger is a programmable CI/CD engine that runs pipelines in containers. The solution executes pipelines entirely as standard OCI containers. The solution is a good fit for developers wishing their CI pipelines were code instead of YAML, DevOps teams, platform engineers running custom tooling, and cloud-native developer advocates or solution engineers. The running of executing … continue reading
Jeli.io launches ChatGPT beta for improving incident response and analysis
Incident response and analysis company Jeli.io announced that it has integrated ChatGPT into its platform. By utilizing large language models like ChatGPT, Jeli.io will help teams handle incidents and gain insights from them. The company has now extended its AI beta access to enterprise customers, positioning itself as a pioneer in using language models for … continue reading
Lightbend updates developer experience for Kalix
Lightbend, a company specializing in cloud-native microservices frameworks, has introduced a new Developer Experience (DX) for their Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering called Kalix. Kalix provides a unique programming model that aims to swiftly build scalable, mission-critical, stateful applications using a serverless architecture while focusing solely on the application’s business logic. The platform works with Kubernetes-based cloud … continue reading
Jitterbit adds a cloud-based EDI solution to its platform
Jitterbit introduced a new self-managed, cloud-based Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solution into the Jitterbit Harmony platform. This offering, known as Harmony EDI, enables users to independently handle and manage their EDI processes, allowing for a self-serve approach to EDI operations. It ensures automated data transfer between various trading partners, including major retailers like Amazon, Home … continue reading
Crossplane 1.13 released with a new feature allowing changes to be ignored
The new version of Crossplane has the ability to ignore certain changes that external systems may be making to the resources managed by Crossplane. According to the maintainers, in certain situations, it can be beneficial to delegate control of specific resource values to another system. A common example is using a cluster autoscaler that adjusts … continue reading
Optimized real-time Ubuntu is now available on Intel processors
The publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical, has unveiled the release of Real-time Ubuntu optimized for Intel Core processors. This offering allows enterprises to leverage the benefits of optimized Linux running on Intel silicon, catering to a diverse array of applications, including telco workloads, critical medical equipment, and automation systems utilized in factory settings, Canonical explained. “With … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Llama2 WebUI
With this project, users can run Llama 2 locally with gradio UI on GPU or CPU from anywhere (Linux/Windows/Mac). It supports Llama-2-7B/13B/70B with 8-bit, 4-bit. It also supports GPU inference (6 GB VRAM) and CPU inference. Llama 2 is a collection of pre-trained and fine-tuned generative text models ranging in scale from 7 billion to … continue reading
AuditBoard unveils ITRM solution to improve cyber resilience
AuditBoard unveiled its ITRM solution dedicated to IT Risk Management. This offering empowers IT security and risk management experts to efficiently handle their threat landscape, assess IT-related risks, and enhance cyber resilience. By adopting this solution, organizations can effectively adapt to the ever-changing and expanding landscape of business risks. The announcement coincides with the upcoming … continue reading
Red Hat expands capabilities of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform offerings on Microsoft Azure
Red Hat announced advancements to Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) on Microsoft Azure, such as new consumption models and clustering features. Organizations seeking to move their workloads to the cloud can now benefit from Red Hat OpenShift through JBoss EAP on Azure Red Hat OpenShift. This is a fully-managed service that is … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Crio-O
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced the graduation of the CRI-O project, which offers a reliable and high-performing implementation of the Container Runtime Interface (CRI) for the Kubelet. It also enables the orchestration of Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers in Kubernetes environments used for production purposes. This graduation signifies that CRI-O has achieved a … continue reading
Flux v2 is now generally available
Flux v2.0.0 brings several enhancements to its functionality. Firstly, the GitOps-related APIs have been upgraded to v1. Also, Flux controllers now have the ability to scale horizontally and support sharding. The Flux CLI and Flux Terraform Provider now offer stable and production-ready Git bootstrap capabilities, streamlining the process of setting up Git repositories for Flux … continue reading
