IBM and Cognizant partner to help companies address escalating technology costs
IBM and the IT modernization company Cognizant have announced the launch of the FinOps Center of Excellence, which will combine IBM’s technologies with Cognizant’s expertise to help companies address the escalating costs associated with AI readiness, cloud governance, and architectural modernization. “Modern businesses face significant challenges in managing complexity, operational risks, and cost overhead due … continue reading
CrowdStrike to acquire Adaptive Shield
CrowdStrike has announced that it will be acquiring Adaptive Shield, a company that provides security monitoring capabilities for SaaS applications. “This acquisition will propel CrowdStrike to become the only cybersecurity vendor to provide full protection against identity-based attacks across the modern cloud ecosystem — from on-premises Active Directory to cloud-based identity providers and the growing … continue reading
Report: The challenges of Infrastructure as Code
Usage of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is prevalent, but like with any technology, the pros aren’t without cons. IaC has the potential to improve reliability, security, and development velocity, but in reality, developers are running into some issues using this practice. Insights into some of these challenges were revealed in new research called Stacked Up: … continue reading
Edera launches open source OpenPaX patch to improve memory safety in Linux
Container security company Edera is working to improve application-level memory safety in Linux with the release of OpenPaX, an open source kernel patch that mitigates common memory safety errors. It was initially created to benefit Edera’s own customers, but the company decided to open source it to make it available to the broader community. The … continue reading
Cloud Canaries enables companies to enhance their current observability platforms with OpenTelemetry
The observability company Cloud Canaries has announced the launch of Observability Canaries, enabling teams to enhance their existing observability tools with OpenTelemetry. By integrating observability tools with OpenTelemetry, teams get access to a “readily available, additional data source for model creation, alarming, forecast generation and validation,” Cloud Canaries wrote in its announcement. According to the … continue reading
Kentik offers free Cloud Latency Map to provide insights into cloud latency around the world
Network observability platform Kentik today released Cloud Latency Map, a free tool that provides insights into latency in over 100 different cloud regions around the world. According to Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik and the creator of the Cloud Latency Map, this new tool can help IT teams determine if a connectivity … continue reading
Lenovo and Cisco partner to provide enterprise solutions for workplace collaboration, AI
Earlier this year, Lenovo and Cisco announced that they were collaborating to bring their customers workplace solutions that incorporate generative AI and improve enterprise productivity. Now, the two companies are revealing several new offerings that have come about through this partnership. First, they announced TruScale Meeting Room as a Service (TS MRaaS), which is a … continue reading
Gartner predicts a 9.3% increase in IT spending in 2025
Gartner is predicting that IT spending will continue to grow in 2025. Specifically, they predict a 9.3% increase from this year, with the total spending equaling $5.74 trillion. Generative AI investments are driving data center spending, which grew by 34.7% in 2024, and represented the biggest increase of the various IT spending categories. Gartner doesn’t … continue reading
Report: IT outages cost $1.9 million per hour on average
The average cost of IT outages has increased to $1.9 million per hour, with the median downtime for a high-impact outage being 77 hours. This is according to observability company New Relic’s newly released 2024 Observability Forecast, which surveyed 1,700 IT professionals from 16 countries. Just a decade ago, Gartner reported that the average cost … continue reading
RHEL AI 1.2 adds support for new hardware accelerators from Lenovo and AMD
Red Hat has announced the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), its platform for developing, testing, and running LLMs. “Building on the success of our initial release of RHEL AI 1.1 on September 5, 2024, this version furthers our commitment to empowering developers, AI engineers and data scientists by lowering the … continue reading
FIDO Alliance’s newest specifications for passkeys enable better user choice and flexibility in credential managers
The driving force behind passkeys, the FIDO Alliance, is working to make passkeys even easier to adopt by publishing new working drafts of specifications for secure credential exchange, a format for transferring different types of credentials in a credential manager. Passkeys have significant momentum at this moment of time, with over 12 billion online accounts … continue reading
ClearML’s GPU-as-a-Service provides multi-tenant access to AI infrastructure
The AI development platform ClearML is making it even easier for companies with multiple teams working on AI solutions to get the infrastructure they need. GPU-as-a-Service provides access to large on-premise or cloud computing clusters that are multi-tenant so that multiple teams can work off them. ClearML tracks compute consumption, data storage, API calls, and … continue reading
