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
Octopus Deploy releases features to simplify Kubernetes continuous delivery
Octopus Deploy has recently launched new features to help simplify Kubernetes continuous delivery at scale. “Kubernetes is powerful but gets complicated when deploying hundreds or thousands of applications,” Colin Bowern, SVP of Product at Octopus Deploy, said in the company’s announcement. “Challenges like managing environments, lack of pipeline visibility, and compliance get more complex at … continue reading
AI at the industrial edge — Where it’s at and where it’s going
Artificial Intelligence has been effectively used across industries and platforms, including the industrial edge, for some time. What’s important to focus on now is how to expand those opportunities. For example, it’s currently possible to use AI to regulate the temperature of, say, a tank holding certain chemicals. What organizations can’t do in that situation … continue reading
Sumo Logic adds threat intelligence to its log analytics platform
Sumo Logic has announced new AI and security analytics capabilities designed to allow security and development teams to use critical security data to plug security holes. The Sumo Logic Saas Log Analytics Platform now provides a single place to monitor and secure applications and infrastructure so all stakeholders using DevSecOps practices can work together to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Vineyard
Vineyard is an in-memory data manager designed specifically for data-heavy analytics. It uses shared memory to efficiently share data across different systems without needing to do serialization and deserialization. It employs a zero-copy method for sharing, which helps to avoid I/O overhead costs. According to the project maintainers, Vineyard is ideal for complex cloud-native environments, … continue reading
Red Hat to introduce ‘policy-as-code’ in Ansible Automation platform
Red Hat is introducing ‘policy-as-code’ with its Ansible Automation platform to help enforce compliance within hybrid cloud environments that are leveraging an increasing number of applications powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The technical preview is to be available in the months ahead, the company said in its announcement. As IT operations feel the growing pressures … continue reading
3 keys to optimizing operations in modern networking environments
In many enterprises, it seems IT and network operations teams are constantly being forced to react to problems, which leaves little time to make the meaningful optimizations that advance the organization’s objectives. Those realities only grow more pronounced as the implications of today’s modern networks continue to make their presence known. User connections continue to … continue reading
