IBM and Cognizant partner to help companies address escalating technology costs
IBM and the IT modernization company Cognizant have announced the launch of the FinOps Center of Excellence, which will combine IBM’s technologies with Cognizant’s expertise to help companies address the escalating costs associated with AI readiness, cloud governance, and architectural modernization. “Modern businesses face significant challenges in managing complexity, operational risks, and cost overhead due … continue reading
CrowdStrike to acquire Adaptive Shield
CrowdStrike has announced that it will be acquiring Adaptive Shield, a company that provides security monitoring capabilities for SaaS applications. “This acquisition will propel CrowdStrike to become the only cybersecurity vendor to provide full protection against identity-based attacks across the modern cloud ecosystem — from on-premises Active Directory to cloud-based identity providers and the growing … continue reading
Tintri Introduces Advanced Kubernetes Data Management with New VMstore CSI Driver
Tintri®, a subsidiary of DDN®, and leader in AI-powered data management solutions, today announced the availability of Tintri’s VMstore™ features to Kubernetes environments with its new VMstore Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver. The Tintri VMstore platform provides unparalleled visibility into performance, data protection and management for virtual machine workloads, with a focus on simplicity. The CSI … continue reading
Pure Storage Simplifies Cloud Migrations for Enterprise-scale VMware Environments on Microsoft Azure
Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced Pure Storage Cloud for Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS), a new fully managed block storage-as-a-service (STaaS) offering available for AVS. This new solution, soon to be in preview, will be offered as an Azure Native integration. The … continue reading
New Relic Unveils Industry’s First Intelligent Observability Platform
New Relic unveiled the New Relic Intelligent Observability Platform, transforming observability from ensuring uptime and reliability into a key driver of business growth and developer velocity for enterprises worldwide. The platform is strengthened by the New Relic AI Engine to predict and prevent issues, and streamline business and IT operations with automation. With new innovations like … continue reading
Report: The challenges of Infrastructure as Code
Usage of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is prevalent, but like with any technology, the pros aren’t without cons. IaC has the potential to improve reliability, security, and development velocity, but in reality, developers are running into some issues using this practice. Insights into some of these challenges were revealed in new research called Stacked Up: … continue reading
Edera launches open source OpenPaX patch to improve memory safety in Linux
Container security company Edera is working to improve application-level memory safety in Linux with the release of OpenPaX, an open source kernel patch that mitigates common memory safety errors. It was initially created to benefit Edera’s own customers, but the company decided to open source it to make it available to the broader community. The … continue reading
Cloud Canaries enables companies to enhance their current observability platforms with OpenTelemetry
The observability company Cloud Canaries has announced the launch of Observability Canaries, enabling teams to enhance their existing observability tools with OpenTelemetry. By integrating observability tools with OpenTelemetry, teams get access to a “readily available, additional data source for model creation, alarming, forecast generation and validation,” Cloud Canaries wrote in its announcement. According to the … continue reading
Kentik offers free Cloud Latency Map to provide insights into cloud latency around the world
Network observability platform Kentik today released Cloud Latency Map, a free tool that provides insights into latency in over 100 different cloud regions around the world. According to Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik and the creator of the Cloud Latency Map, this new tool can help IT teams determine if a connectivity … continue reading
Lenovo and Cisco partner to provide enterprise solutions for workplace collaboration, AI
Earlier this year, Lenovo and Cisco announced that they were collaborating to bring their customers workplace solutions that incorporate generative AI and improve enterprise productivity. Now, the two companies are revealing several new offerings that have come about through this partnership. First, they announced TruScale Meeting Room as a Service (TS MRaaS), which is a … continue reading
Better together: How to break down persistent IT and security silos
More streamlined IT and security collaboration is something the industry has been moving toward for the better part of the past decade, but thanks to some recent changes in organizational reporting structures (i.e., the CIO emerging as the de facto leader for IT and cybersecurity) and a convergence of in-demand IT/security skills, the relationship between … continue reading
Is ITSM empowering your employees, or getting in their way?
There are plenty of great things about working in ITSM — for example, working closely with end users, making their lives easier and solving problems. But we’d be lying if we said it was always “smooth sailing.” Working in ITSM can be very challenging, as these professionals deal with everything from security scares, to highly … continue reading
Gartner predicts a 9.3% increase in IT spending in 2025
Gartner is predicting that IT spending will continue to grow in 2025. Specifically, they predict a 9.3% increase from this year, with the total spending equaling $5.74 trillion. Generative AI investments are driving data center spending, which grew by 34.7% in 2024, and represented the biggest increase of the various IT spending categories. Gartner doesn’t … continue reading
Report: IT outages cost $1.9 million per hour on average
The average cost of IT outages has increased to $1.9 million per hour, with the median downtime for a high-impact outage being 77 hours. This is according to observability company New Relic’s newly released 2024 Observability Forecast, which surveyed 1,700 IT professionals from 16 countries. Just a decade ago, Gartner reported that the average cost … continue reading
