ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenDAC
Georgia Tech and Meta have teamed up to create an open dataset called OpenDAC that is designed to help improve direct air capture technology, which is a process that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air. According to Georgia Tech, one of the biggest challenges to direct air capture is that every environment and location … continue reading
Bugcrowd acquires Informer, enhancing attack surface management and pen testing
Bugcrowd, a leading provider of crowdsourced security, today announced it has acquired Informer, which offers external attack surface management (ASM) and continuous penetration testing. The move will enable Bugcrowd to expand its solution in the ASM market, which is estimated to be $3.3 billion by 2029. ASM is a critical aspect of an overall cybersecurity … continue reading
Finout raises $26 million Series B, leading FinOps forward with its complete platform
Finout, the FinOps-for-enterprise company, announced a $26.3 million Series B funding round led by Red Dot Capital with the participation of Maor Investments and existing investors — Team8, Pitango, and Jibe Ventures. Finout’s complete FinOps platform is now used by leading global brands, including Lyft, the New York Times, Choice Hotels, Wiz, Tenable, and Appsflyer, … continue reading
PagerDuty Operations Cloud updates embrace AI and automation for incident resolution
PagerDuty has announced several updates to PagerDuty Operations Cloud, which is the company’s overarching platform that combines its AIOps, Process Automation, Incident Management, and Customer Service Ops offerings. First, the company announced PagerDuty Copilot, which is a generative AI assistant for the platform that is now in early access. Customers can chat with it to … continue reading
Puppet delivers enhanced infrastructure automation for a new operating reality
Infrastructure automation provider Puppet by Perforce has added new security, compliance, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities to its platform offering. Infrastructure resilience, improved agility and aligning with business goals are the critical focus for infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders. According to a recent Gartner I&O Leaders Survey, the most important services I&O leaders need … continue reading
DigiCert Unveils Device Trust Manager for Comprehensive IoT Device Security
DigiCert, a global provider of digital trust, today announced the evolution of its IoT security solution with the launch of DigiCert Device Trust Manager, designed to safeguard IoT devices throughout the entire lifecycle. The new Device Trust Manager addresses the critical needs of device manufacturers for an integrated and scalable solution to secure IoT devices, manage … continue reading
Octopus Deploy announces extension for GitHub Copilot
Continuous delivery platform provider Octopus Deploy has announced a GitHub Copilot Extension that increases efficiency and helps developers stay in the flow. The Octopus extension responds to plain text chat queries from Copilot with relevant information from customers’ Octopus instances, making it simpler to connect Octopus and GitHub for deployments. The Octopus extension, the company … continue reading
Logz.io launches Observability IQ, introduces AI-driven IQ Assistant
With the goal of turning observability into a conversation, platform provider Logz.io today announced the launch of Observability IQ, its AI strategy and roadmap, and introduced IQ Assistant, an AI-driven, chat-based capability. According to the company announcement, Logz.io IQ Assistant can answer users’ questions in a conversational way, providing detailed responses to natural language queries … continue reading
IBM announces Rapid Network Automation
IBM is announcing Rapid Network Automation, a low-code API-driven tool for automating, integrating and connecting infrastructure throughout a hybrid cloud environment. The tool, which was developed after IBM acquired Pliant in March, turns API code into deployable blocks that Rapid Network Automation can assemble and integrate to ensure communication across the technology stack between platforms, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: AFFiNE
This week’s highlighted open-source project is AFFiNE, which is a knowledge base intended as an alternative to tools like Notion, Miro, and Airtable. “There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use,” the … continue reading
New cost optimization capabilities in LogicMonitor’s Envision platform
Tracking costs in hybrid infrastructure in increasingly difficult, and without the metrics to understand which resources within your cloud and on-premises are over- or underutilized, those costs can spiral out of control. Infrastructure observability provider LogicMonitor today announced LM Cost Optimization within its Envision platform, to give actionable insights that enable cost efficiencies for cloud … continue reading
Report: Occurrence of specialized app attacks quickly rising
In the past year, the number of specialized attacks, which target specific applications through means such as making malicious changes to the code, has sharply risen. According to Digital.ai’s 2024 Application Security Threat Report, the likelihood of an iOS app having maliciously modified code grew from 6% to 20% in the last year. Similarly, for … continue reading
Cycode launches ASPM marketplace
Cycode today launched what the company is calling a first-of-its-kind ASPM marketplace, enabling users to leverage more than 100 connectors and integrations to bring in findings from third-party security tools and eliminate gaps that can rise in supply chain security. Cycode’s announcement cited findings from The State of ASPM 2024 report that show 77% of … continue reading
ScienceLogic unveils Autonomic IT for business transformation
ScienceLogic today announced the release of capabilities that bring together data, AI and automation for a new approach to IT Operations — Autonomic IT. Autonomic IT, which the company calls the next wave of IT monitoring and management, enables enterprises to focus on innovation and driving revenue by creating an IT operation that powers an … continue reading
