Hitachi Vantara’s Hitachi IQ portfolio is now available with certification from NVIDIA
Hitachi Vantara is trying to help IT teams set their companies up for AI adoption with the general availability of the Hitachi IQ platform and the Hitachi Vantara AI Discovery Service. Its AI platform Hitachi IQ will enable customers to access the infrastructure needed to realize the value of AI, the company explained. In its … continue reading
ServiceNow acquires Raytion to level up its AI search capabilities
The IT service management company ServiceNow has announced the acquisition of Raytion, which is an information search and retrieval company. ServiceNow has invested heavily into AI in recent years, and the purpose of this acquisition is to enhance its AI-powered search and knowledge management capabilities. The goal is that this new technology will enable real-time … continue reading
Gluware 5.4 introduces new network discovery capabilities
The network automation company Gluware has announced the next version of its platform: Gluware 5.4. This release introduces new network discovery capabilities, such as a new subnet-based search and the ability to create search jobs. The company has also updated the network discovery UI to be more intuitive. In addition, with this latest update, Ansible … continue reading
CrowdStrike outages underscore importance of incident planning
If you’re working in the IT organization of a company that uses CrowdStrike to protect its Windows computers, you likely spent your whole Friday (and possibly the weekend) trying to revert back a bad update that led to those machines crashing. Earlier that morning, CrowdStrike had pushed an update to Windows machines that caused a … continue reading
Win11Debloat – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Win11Debloat is an open-source PowerShell script for removing pre-installed Windows apps and disabling telemetry and intrusive interface elements, ads, and more. Rather than having to go through settings and removing things one-by-one, Win11Debloat can run once and remove everything that is unwanted. The script itself is customizable, so users can pick and choose what they … continue reading
Cerbos Hub launches to simplify deployment of authorization policies
The authorization company Cerbos has announced the general availability of Cerbos Hub, which is a management system for authoring, testing, and deploying authorization policies using the company’s open-source authorization layer Policy Decision Point (PDP). With PDP, authorization policies are separated from application code, which allows authorization to scale and change as the application’s needs change … continue reading
Druva announces new Threat Hunting capability for getting insights into potential threats
The security company Druva has announced new capabilities to help customers more efficiently investigate and remediate cyber threats. It launched a new Threat Hunting capability for indicators of compromise (IOC) that provides IT and security teams with insights into the gestation, timeline, and impact of potential threats in their environment. According to the company, traditional … continue reading
Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 now available with several new virtualization features
Red Hat has announced the latest version of OpenShift, its Kubernetes-based application development and deployment platform. “Being able to more quickly modernize both infrastructure and applications are crucial capabilities to better support customer needs — but this can’t be done overnight,” said Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager of Hybrid Cloud Platforms at Red … continue reading
Report: Majority of security pros admit to using “shadow SaaS” apps
A recent survey from Next DLP revealed that over the last year, 73% of security professionals have used used “shadow Saas,” or SaaS applications not provided or approved by their IT teams. Further, even though they are using shadow SaaS, they admitted to being aware of the risks of doing so, with the most commonly … continue reading
Siren – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
In an effort to help maintainers of open source projects combat security threats, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has created a mailing list called Siren to enable sharing of information about vulnerabilities. “While consumers and enterprises may have intelligence sharing structures in place, this does not always extend to the upstream open source community. … continue reading
ScienceLogic announces integration with Cisco Intersight
ScienceLogic has announced that its AIOps platform now integrates with Cisco’s data center management solution, Cisco Intersight, which enables customers to easily monitor their Cisco servers. This is one of many updates the company has announced to its platform. It also announced support for OAuth 2.0 for several ServiceNow SyncPacks, which are files that contain … continue reading
New Relic DEM provides insights that help companies improve user experience
New Relic is releasing a Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) solution to enable companies to improve performance and user experience across mobile, web, and AI apps. New Relic DEM offers real user monitoring (RUM), which provides visibility into all user interactions across web and mobile platforms. Companies can use this information to identify bottlenecks and optimize … continue reading
