Pulumi ESC now generally available, Insights 2.0 released
The infrastructure as code company Pulumi has announced the general availability of Pulumi ESC and the release of Pulumi Insights 2.0 during its annual user conference, PulumiUP. Pulumi ESC, which stands for environments, secrets, and configuration, is a centralized secrets management platform. In this GA release, the company has added a new projects system that … continue reading
Stytch updates Device Fingerprinting to improve bot detection
The authentication provider Stytch is releasing new features in its Device Fingerprinting offering aimed at making it easier for companies to detect bots and fraud. Stytch Device Fingerprinting creates unique and persistent fingerprints for each visitor by analyzing subsignals of device hardware, network TLS profile, and active browser markers. It is also invisible to users, … continue reading
Oracle levels up OCI distributed cloud with several new updates
Oracle has announced several Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) distributed cloud updates, spanning a number of solutions, including OCI Supercluster, OCI Dedicated Region, Oracle Database AWS, Oracle Database Azure, and Oracle Database Google Cloud. The company is now taking orders for OCI Supercluster, which it describes as the “largest AI supercomputer in the cloud,” with 3x … continue reading
Google Cloud adds new backup features to Backup and Disaster Recovery service
Google Cloud is improving its Backup and Disaster Recovery service with three new preview features for simplifying backup management and policies. First, backup vault provides immutable and indelible backups, meaning they are both prevented from having modifications made to them and cannot be deleted. This protects backups from being tampered with or being unintentionally deleted. … continue reading
ServiceNow’s Now Platform Xanadu release helps companies improve operational resiliency with AI
ServiceNow has released the latest version of its Now Platform, bringing improvements around operational resiliency and productivity, AI assistance, database performance, and more. The Now Platform Xanadu release introduces new automation capabilities to streamline application management, issue resolution, and operations, improving overall productivity and operational resiliency. Enterprise Architecture, which is an expansion of the company’s … continue reading
Report: AI may have benefits across enterprise, but it’s causing trouble for IT
A majority of IT leaders are worried about the cybersecurity implications brought on by the introduction of AI into their organizations. According to Flexential’s 2024 State of AI Infrastructure Report, 95% of IT leaders said that AI has made their organization more vulnerable to cyberthreats. About half of the respondents believe this is because the … continue reading
OpenObserve – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
OpenObserve, or O2, is a simplified observability platform that is designed as an easier-to-use version of tools like Elasticsearch, Splunk, or Datadog. According to the project maintainers, it is very easy to get started using O2, and it can be set up in under two minutes. It supports observability data types like logs, metrics, and … continue reading
Red Hat brings AI to hybrid cloud with RHEL AI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) is a foundation model platform for developing, testing, and running generative AI models that enterprise applications are utilizing. It comes as a single bootable image — complete with IBM’s open source Granite LLMs and the InstructLab model alignment tools — that can be easily redeployed to servers across … continue reading
Report: Most companies are now practicing proactive incident management
According to research from Atlassian, most companies are now practicing proactive incident management, meaning that they are using monitoring, alerting, and communication tools; have formal incident response training in place; and are using AI for incident trending and visibility into recent changes. When Atlassian conducted the same survey four years ago, only 35% of companies … continue reading
KTE – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
KTE is an open source Kubernetes testing environment for the major cloud providers’ Kubernetes services: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). It provides a safe and controlled space for discovering issues and vulnerabilities in Kubernetes configurations before they make it to production. KTE allows for the simulation … continue reading
AWS launches managed service for setting up HPC clusters
AWS is announcing the launch of AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS), a new managed service that sets up and manages high performance computing (HPC) clusters. HPC brings together multiple computers or resources to tackle more complex or resource-intensive workloads, like computational fluid dynamics, weather modeling, finite element analysis, electronic design automation, and reservoir simulations. With … continue reading
SUSE: Cloud security incidents down this year, but companies remain vigilant
Companies are experiencing fewer cloud security incidents this year than in years past, yet they still have concerns related to cloud and edge. This is according to SUSE’s latest Securing the Cloud report, which surveyed 820 IT engineers, architects, developers, security managers, and directors across the US, Germany, UK, France, and the Netherlands. According to … continue reading
