Groundcover announces integration of its eBPF-based observability platform with OpenTelemetry
Groundcover, the eBPF-powered observability platform, has announced a new integration with OpenTelemetry, which will provide customers with deeper insights into performance, user behavior, and errors. The company uses eBPF technology to provide observability for cloud-native architecture, and it can trace any type of event from network and infrastructure to services and applications. The company explained … continue reading
Survey: Resource shortages a challenge in meeting data infrastructure demands
A 2025 Data Infrastructure Survey Report from DataStrike found that internal IT teams are struggling with modern data management due to limited resources available to them. According to the report, 55% of the survey respondents rely only on internal teams to manage their data infrastructure, with only 19% reporting that they outsource. As a result, … continue reading
Mastering Day 2: Optimizing Kubernetes health and performance
Mastering Kubernetes health and performance goes beyond the initial setup. The real challenge starts on Day 2, where operations teams must engage in a continuous cycle of monitoring, identifying, and resolving issues before they disrupt operations. This involves addressing two types of issues: critical real-time problems that can lead to immediate downtime, and ongoing reliability … continue reading
The time to migrate to quantum-safe cryptography is now
Quantum computing is no longer a dream far off in the future; it may be right around the corner. Gartner predicts that by 2029, quantum computing will advance to the point that it will render traditional cryptography unsafe. The encryption that we currently rely on to protect data is only effective because our current classic … continue reading
Synopsys unveils new Ultra Ethernet IP and UALink IP solutions
Synopsys has announced the launch of Ultra Ethernet IP and UALink IP solutions that are designed to meet the demands required to scale AI architectures. “For more than 25 years, Synopsys has been at the forefront of providing best-in-class IP solutions that enable designers to accelerate the integration of standards-based functionality,” said Neeraj Paliwal, senior … continue reading
Vultr Collaborates with AMD, Broadcom and Juniper Networks to Pioneer New GPU Data Center Architecture
Vultr, the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced a four-way strategic collaboration with Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-Native Networking, Broadcom Inc., a leader in enterprise data center connectivity solutions, and AMD, a leader in high performance compute technologies. As a part of this announcement, Vultr is expanding its Chicago cloud data … continue reading
GitGuardian announces new offering to help companies secure their non-human identities
GitGuardian has announced a new security solution that targets Non-Human Identities (NHI), like API keys, credentials, access tokens. According to GitGuardian, NHIs outnumber human identities 50 to 1, and companies often end up with NHIs scattered across their codebases, CI/CD pipelines, and productivity tools. With GitGuardian NHI Governance, companies gain visibility into where these NHIs … continue reading
DefectDojo Permanently Solves Security Data Ingestion Issues with First-of-its-Kind Universal Parser
DefectDojo, the pioneer in scalable unified vulnerability management and DevSecOps, today announced the launch of its universal parser for security data ingestion on the Dojo Pro platform. With the universal parser, DefectDojo can support all security tools producing JSON or XML data, the two most common data types in ASPM, streamlining data ingestion for more … continue reading
Emotional intelligence in IT management: Impact, challenges, and cultural differences
Emotional intelligence (EI) has become one of the most sought-after soft skills in the IT industry, especially at the management level. The ability to understand and manage emotions — both one’s own and those of others — is critical in many areas of IT, from support services and user experience (UX) to cross-functional leadership and … continue reading
Linkerd 2.17 adds egress traffic visibility, rate limiting, and federated services
The latest version of the open source service mesh Linkerd is now available, with three major features being added to this 2.17 release: egress traffic visibility and control, rate limiting, and federated services. This release is the first new version of Linkerd since the company changed the release model back in February, stating that stable … continue reading
Tenable announces new Patch Management offering to reduce vulnerability exposures
Tenable has announced the release of a new tool to help companies more quickly close vulnerability exposures. According to a recent survey from Tenable, only 9% of respondents believe that they are effective at vulnerability remediation, and only 11% believe their process is efficient. The process of identifying, testing, and installing remediation patches is also … continue reading
Organizations are more proactive in addressing IT incidents
The number of respondents reporting they are acting proactively to address IT incidents has increased from 35% in 2020 to 68% this year, according to Atlassian’s recently released 2024 State of Incident Management report. Atlassian defines proactive organizations as those that use monitoring, alerting and communication tools; does formal incident response training; and uses AI … continue reading
New storage offerings announced at AWS re:Invent
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a number of new storage capabilities, such as new Amazon EC2 instances and a new storage class for FSx in OpenZFS file systems. Amazon EC2 I8g instances are new EC2 instances optimized for storage, powered by 3rd gen AWS Nitro SSDs and AWS Graviton processors. They offer up to 65% … continue reading
NetBox announces products to accelerate network automation and eliminate operational drift
NetBox Labs has announced the upcoming launch of two new network observability products in the NetBox stack, NetBox Discovery and NetBox Assurance. Both products further deepen the value in the NetBox ecosystem and address critical challenges for network and infrastructure teams operating complex environments. NetBox Discovery enables operators to gather and ingest network and infrastructure information into … continue reading
