Catchpoint unveils lots of new features to make Internet performance monitoring better
Catchpoint has announced a number of new enhancements to its Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform. Internet Weather shows the status of Internet services around the world, so that teams can be aware of outages in their third-party dependencies. It includes popular CDN, DNS, IaaS/PaaS, ISP, and SaaS providers. Traceroute Enhancement is an enhancement to Network … continue reading
Report: IT executives growing concerned over cloud spending
These IT leaders will be trying to find ways to reduce their cloud infrastructure, application, and tools costs. According to a survey by Vega Cloud, 100% of the 100 executives they surveyed say that cloud is important to their business. 91% currently spend at least $1 million per year on cloud infrastructure. Despite the critical … continue reading
AWS now offers a single place in console for managing notifications across services and accounts
Amazon is making it easier to consolidate notifications across all your AWS services with the launch of AWS User Notifications. The new feature is a capability in the AWS console that provides a single location for managing notifications across multiple AWS accounts, regions, and services. According to AWS, there are over 100 services that can … continue reading
Mezmo offers free trial, community plan for Telemetry Pipeline
The observability company Mezmo announced that Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline now has a free trial and free community plan. This free option will enable companies to get insights into their data without actually needing to do the upfront investment that would otherwise be required. “Developers, site reliability engineers, security analysts, and more need access to telemetry … continue reading
RSA 2023: Google Cloud Security AI, SentinelOne Singularity Security DataLake, and CrowdStrike XDR for ChromeOS
The RSA security conference kicked off earlier this week, bringing security professionals from around the world together in San Francisco, and online. Here is a summary of some of the latest news from the event: Google Cloud Security AI Workbench This new security platform uses a large language model that is specifically designed for security … continue reading
Report: Developers moving away from “DIY Kubernetes”
Back in 2020, 28% of respondents to VMware’s State of Kubernetes report were building Kubernetes on their own. Now, the 2023 version of the same survey is showing that only 16% of developers are building their own Kubernetes setups. According to VMware, this decrease is an indication that companies are realizing they don’t have infrastructure … continue reading
KubeCon Europe: Sumo Logic’s Predict for Metrics, Cosmonic Connect, and Solo.io’s Gloo Fabric
KubeCon Europe kicked off today in Amsterdam, and a number of companies have already shared their latest innovations at the event. Here are a few highlights so far: Sumo Logic announces Predict for Metrics Predictr for Metrics uses observability data to predict variable applications, cloud and infrastructure usage, and resource demands. The company believes the … continue reading
Report: Cloud funding is drying up among VCs
The pandemic and low interest rates fueled a big wave of cloud adoption, but that is all starting to dry up. This is according to Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) in their State of the Cloud 2023 report, which looks at cloud adoption through the lens of funding and market conditions. If you compare the cloud … continue reading
PagerDuty brings end-to-end IT automation with new AIOps offering
PagerDuty has announced that PagerDuty AIOps is now generally available, enabling its customers to have access to new automation capabilities that can be applied to their IT departments. The new offering includes capabilities aimed at reducing the amount of time that IT teams are spending on managing multiple vendors and manual processes. These include things … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Uyuni
Uyuni is an open-source configuration and infrastructure management tool designed specifically for software-defined infrastructure. It can be used on any Linux server connected to a network, including IoT edge devices or a Kubernete environment. Uyuni supports management for SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Amazon Linux, and AlmaLinux … continue reading
Rookout adds fourth pillar of observability with Smart Snapshots
Observability was built on the foundation of three pillars: logs, metrics, and traces; Now, the company Rookout wants to add a fourth: snapshots. “We’ve been hearing for years about the three pillars of observability,” said Liran Haimovitch, CTO and co-founder of Rookout. “Snapshots are the next level for those moments when something goes very wrong … continue reading
Microsoft Security Copilot brings GPT-4 capabilities to security systems
Microsoft is adding to the list of offerings it has that incorporate AI to improve how businesses run. Microsoft Security Copilot combines the capabilities of GPT-4 with Microsoft’s security capabilities to provide an end-to-end defense system. The company hopes that this new solution will enable security to be a more human endeavor as security professionals … continue reading
