Cloudforet – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Cloudforet is an open-source project hosted by the Linux Foundation that provides a single platform for managing cloud resources from different providers. By having everything accessible from one platform, IT admins can quickly search cloud resources and analyze them. They also get better visibility into costs because billing data is also included and there are … continue reading
IBM: Average cost of data breaches rises to $4.88 million
According to new research from IBM, in 2024, the average cost of a data breach rose to $4.88 million, which is a 10% increase from last year. IBM’s findings imply that the costs have risen because the collateral damage from a breach — lost business, post-breach customer costs, etc — is having a greater impact … continue reading
DDS standard 1.2 adds robust security enhancements
The Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard is getting significant updates with its latest release, version 1.2. DDS is a data connectivity standard that enables developers to provide real-time data to IoT systems. The new version contains a more robust security model, including: NSA approved algorithms Pre-shared keys to better protect from DoS attacks Key revisions … continue reading
PagerDuty embeds generative AI across its Operations Cloud platform
PagerDuty has announced the availability of PagerDuty Advance, a series of generative AI capabilities embedded across the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. PagerDuty Advance Assistant for Slack allows users to get a summary of an incident from within Slack. The assistant anticipates common diagnostic questions and can also suggest troubleshooting steps to help enable faster incident resolution. … continue reading
Fortanix’ Key Insight can now scan on-premises services for encryption keys
The security company Fortanix has announced an update to its Key Insight solution, which is a tool that provides visibility into where a company’s encryption keys are stored and how data services are using them. The latest update expands Key Insight so that it can now scan on-premises services like databases or storage. This enables … continue reading
Run:ai joins Vultr’s Cloud Alliance program
The cloud computing platform Vultr has announced that the AI orchestration company Run:ai is joining its partnership program Cloud Alliance. This goal of the program is to provide customers with services and infrastructure from various companies that they can seamlessly deploy their applications to. Run:ai’s contribution will be AI resource optimization, which will help companies … continue reading
Maestro – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Earlier this week, Netflix open sourced Maestro, a highly scalable workflow orchestrator for handling large-scale workflows, like data pipelines. It can manage the entire workflow lifecycle, including retries, queuing, task distribution to compute engines, and more. Workflows in Maestro follow the directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure, composed of individual job definitions, or Steps. These Steps … continue reading
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
