Cribl announces AI copilot to deliver insights from IT data
Cribl, which is a data management platform for IT teams, has announced a new AI copilot to further help customers manage growing amounts of data. Cribl Copilot can generate insights, dashboards, and notifications from the company’s data, as well as answer questions about that data. According to the company, the goal of this new AI … continue reading
AWS introduces new common control library in Audit Manager
AWS has announced the launch of a common control library in AWS Audit Manager, its tool for mapping compliance requirements to AWS usage. The new library provides common controls that are already mapped to AWS data sources, which are based on mapping and reviews conducted by AWS auditors. It also provides the ability to view … continue reading
Polaris Catalog – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
The Polaris Catalog is an open source catalog for Apache Iceberg that was recently announced by Snowflake at its user conference, Snowflake Summit, earlier this week. While not technically fully available yet, the company says the catalog will be open sourced within the next 90 days. Apache Iceberg is a format for big data analytics, … continue reading
AI and the IT talent gap
The systems that organizations manage have grown exponentially. The advance of cloud computing and the need for technology modernization over the past few years has created more demand from people. All this has led to an IT talent gap. I recently spoke with Mehdi Daoudi, founder and CEO of internet resiliency company Catchpoint about this … continue reading
Kyndryl Threat Insights provides security insights for AWS environments
Kyndryl has announced a new collaboration with AWS to provide its customers better insights into threats in their AWS environments. Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service provides a central repository for security data from AWS using Amazon Security Lake. By being able to access security data from a single view, companies will be able to uncover … continue reading
Lambda Labs launches 1-Click Clusters to provide on-demand access to GPUs for AI with a low reservation minimum
Lambda Labs, which is a company that provides on-demand access to GPUs in the cloud for AI, is democratizing who can train large AI models with the launch of Lambda 1-Click Clusters. Normally, companies that offer access to GPU clusters require minimum reservations that ensure only the largest enterprises can afford them. But smaller companies … continue reading
Canonical releases Ubuntu Core 24
Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu Core 24, which introduces a number of new features such as validation sets for container images, better GPU integration, and new device management integrations. “Ubuntu Core is the locked-down, hardened, embedded version of Ubuntu, that brings Ubuntu applications to the far edge and enables the next generation of … continue reading
Veeam launches new backup storage solution
Veeam Software has announced the launch of a new cloud-based storage solution, Veeam Data Cloud Vault. The new solution will allow companies to store backup data in an immutable and encrypted format in the cloud. According to Veeam’s Ransomware Trends Report 2024, 85% of companies who were victims of a security breach last year have … continue reading
3 keys to enhancing connected experiences in modern networks
Whether it is a customer making an online purchase or an employee working with a SaaS application, high-performance digital connectivity is a must. When these connected experiences are degraded or fail, it’s a big problem. These issues can have an immediate and dramatic impact on productivity, revenues, brand, customer loyalty, and more. However, ensuring responsive, … continue reading
Protocol Buffers – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Protocol Buffers (also sometimes referred to as protobuf) is a cross-platform mechanism for serializing structured data. Its documentation compares it to formats like XML or JSON, but smaller, faster, and simpler. “You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read … continue reading
Lenovo and Cisco announce partnership to advance workplace productivity innovation
Lenovo has announced it is teaming up with Cisco to develop new solutions that will advance generative AI and other workplace productivity capabilities. According to the companies, this partnership will result in several solutions spanning the areas of digital workspace management, cloud networking, hybrid AI infrastructure services, and Lenovo managed services. By integrating the Cisco … continue reading
LastPass Launches LastPass Compliance Center
LastPass, a leader in password and identity management solutions, today announced the launch of the LastPass Compliance Center. Powered by Drata, the leading security and compliance automation platform, the LastPass Compliance Center will provide customers and partners seeking LastPass security assurance information with a continuously updated view of important system statuses and allow them to download … continue reading
Hitachi Vantara adds block storage in latest release of its data platform
Hitachi Vantara has just unveiled new features across its hybrid cloud data platform, Virtual Storage Platform One. The main highlight of this release is the addition of block storage, which is a data storage technique where data is divided into blocks for easier and more efficient retrieval. According to Hitachi Vantara, using block storage can … continue reading
New Relic report: AI driving need for IT, telco observability
A new report by observability platform provider New Relic highlights the importance of having full-stack observability for the IT and telecommunications industry. The State of Observability for IT and Telecommunications report found that the top trends driving adoption of full-stack observability are the development of cloud-native application architectures (48%), adoption of AI technologies (43%), migration … continue reading
