Polaris Catalog – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
The Polaris Catalog is an open source catalog for Apache Iceberg that was recently announced by Snowflake at its user conference, Snowflake Summit, earlier this week. While not technically fully available yet, the company says the catalog will be open sourced within the next 90 days. Apache Iceberg is a format for big data analytics, … continue reading
Kyndryl Threat Insights provides security insights for AWS environments
Kyndryl has announced a new collaboration with AWS to provide its customers better insights into threats in their AWS environments. Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service provides a central repository for security data from AWS using Amazon Security Lake. By being able to access security data from a single view, companies will be able to uncover … continue reading
Lambda Labs launches 1-Click Clusters to provide on-demand access to GPUs for AI with a low reservation minimum
Lambda Labs, which is a company that provides on-demand access to GPUs in the cloud for AI, is democratizing who can train large AI models with the launch of Lambda 1-Click Clusters. Normally, companies that offer access to GPU clusters require minimum reservations that ensure only the largest enterprises can afford them. But smaller companies … continue reading
Canonical releases Ubuntu Core 24
Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu Core 24, which introduces a number of new features such as validation sets for container images, better GPU integration, and new device management integrations. “Ubuntu Core is the locked-down, hardened, embedded version of Ubuntu, that brings Ubuntu applications to the far edge and enables the next generation of … continue reading
Veeam launches new backup storage solution
Veeam Software has announced the launch of a new cloud-based storage solution, Veeam Data Cloud Vault. The new solution will allow companies to store backup data in an immutable and encrypted format in the cloud. According to Veeam’s Ransomware Trends Report 2024, 85% of companies who were victims of a security breach last year have … continue reading
Protocol Buffers – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Protocol Buffers (also sometimes referred to as protobuf) is a cross-platform mechanism for serializing structured data. Its documentation compares it to formats like XML or JSON, but smaller, faster, and simpler. “You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read … continue reading
Lenovo and Cisco announce partnership to advance workplace productivity innovation
Lenovo has announced it is teaming up with Cisco to develop new solutions that will advance generative AI and other workplace productivity capabilities. According to the companies, this partnership will result in several solutions spanning the areas of digital workspace management, cloud networking, hybrid AI infrastructure services, and Lenovo managed services. By integrating the Cisco … continue reading
Hitachi Vantara adds block storage in latest release of its data platform
Hitachi Vantara has just unveiled new features across its hybrid cloud data platform, Virtual Storage Platform One. The main highlight of this release is the addition of block storage, which is a data storage technique where data is divided into blocks for easier and more efficient retrieval. According to Hitachi Vantara, using block storage can … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenDAC
Georgia Tech and Meta have teamed up to create an open dataset called OpenDAC that is designed to help improve direct air capture technology, which is a process that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air. According to Georgia Tech, one of the biggest challenges to direct air capture is that every environment and location … continue reading
PagerDuty Operations Cloud updates embrace AI and automation for incident resolution
PagerDuty has announced several updates to PagerDuty Operations Cloud, which is the company’s overarching platform that combines its AIOps, Process Automation, Incident Management, and Customer Service Ops offerings. First, the company announced PagerDuty Copilot, which is a generative AI assistant for the platform that is now in early access. Customers can chat with it to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: AFFiNE
This week’s highlighted open-source project is AFFiNE, which is a knowledge base intended as an alternative to tools like Notion, Miro, and Airtable. “There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use,” the … continue reading
Report: Occurrence of specialized app attacks quickly rising
In the past year, the number of specialized attacks, which target specific applications through means such as making malicious changes to the code, has sharply risen. According to Digital.ai’s 2024 Application Security Threat Report, the likelihood of an iOS app having maliciously modified code grew from 6% to 20% in the last year. Similarly, for … continue reading
