ManageEngine announces OpenAI integration in observability platform
ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, has integrated OpenAI observability into its cloud-based observability platform, Site24x7. This new capability allows application owners to monitor the usage of various OpenAI models effortlessly, while also tracking real-time performance and cost metrics. According to ManageEngine, by providing a unified view, businesses can effectively leverage emerging … continue reading
Selector AI updates AIOps platform with new integrations, outlier detection, and more
The AIOps company Selector AI has announced a number of new capabilities in its summer release. The platform now includes over 500 integrations in areas like network, infrastructure, cloud, and applications. Integrations include BGP/BMP, SNMP, CloudWatch, Stackdriver, Postgres, and NGINX. The new release also added outlier detection to more easily identify devices and applications that … continue reading
LeanIX launches Renewals Board to help companies predict SaaS contract spend
LeanIX announced a Renewals Board feature in its SaaS Management Platform (SMP) that enables companies to bring actionable visibility into the SaaS contract renewal process. Operating in a manner similar to a Scrum or Kanban board, this tool enhances interdisciplinary cooperation among IT, finance, procurement, and security departments, significantly improving an organization’s management of its … continue reading
BigPanda adds generative AI capabilities to Automated Incident Analysis
Incident intelligence and AIOps automation tool provider BigPanda announced the release of Generative AI for Automated Incident Analysis, a new capability that uses advanced AI to estimate incident impact, suggest likely root causes, and provide clear, natural language incident titles and summaries. BigPanda Generative AI utilizes large language model (LLM) technology to promptly and consistently … continue reading
Want to break down IT silos? Start with building the right team culture
For those of us who live and breathe technology, it’s easy to believe that we’re all one release away from solving the big challenges facing our organizations. Unfortunately, the reality is more complicated than that. For example, let’s talk about silos, the barriers that exist between different teams or departments within an organization. For years, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Oras
ORAS (OCI Registry As Storage) handles OCI (Open Container Initiative) Artifacts. It doesn’t assume that container images are the main artifacts and places significant importance on media types. ORAS offers CLI tools and client libraries, enabling the distribution of artifacts across OCI-compliant registries. “Registries are evolving as generic artifact stores. To enable this goal, the … continue reading
Storware Backup & Recovery 6.0 adds OS agent support in Linux and Windows
The latest version of Storware’s backup and recovery solution is now available. In Storware Backup & Recovery 6.0, several features have been added, including OS agent support in Linux and Windows, enabling companies to now protect their data at the file level. Another addition in this release is tape support, now available in technical preview. … continue reading
Event-driven architecture explained
Event-driven architecture is an architectural design approach that relies on events to trigger actions across decoupled services. In this context, an event represents some sort of change in state – a customer logging in to an application, a shopper adding an item to a cart, or a user following a new account. Events may include … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Spacedrive
Spacedrive is an open-source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed file system written in Rust. Spacedrive allows users to organize files from multiple devices in a single location. It merges the storage capacity and processing power of various devices, from cloud services to offline hard drives, into a personal distributed cloud that is … continue reading
Puppet by Perforce releases new compliance features
Puppet by Perforce has announced the release of Puppet Comply 2.14.0, the latest version of the company’s tool for making sure infrastructure is secure. The company also announced updates to its Windows and Linux Compliance Enforcement Modules (CEM), which are policy-as-code modules that align with industry security benchmarks. According to Puppet by Perforce, the escalation … continue reading
Cognizant and ServiceNow partner to drive automation in IT
The IT consultancy company Cognizant and the IT software company ServiceNow have announced a new partnership aimed at helping drive adoption of AI-powered automation. The companies have been working together in other capacities for the past decade, but they believe this latest partnership will enable them to build a combined business worth US$1 billion. This … continue reading
Finout announces cost saving solution for AWS
The FinOps platform Finout has announced the release of its Cost Optimizer for AWS, which uses AI to reduce bills by up to 60%. To save customers money, it evaluates changes in usage patterns and then identifies the optimal Reserved Instance capacity that a customer needs to meet its targets. Then, if usage drops, Finout … continue reading
IBM to acquire FinOps company Apptio for US$4.6 billion
To accelerate advancing its IT automation capabilities, IBM today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Apptio, makers of FinOps software, for $4.6 billion. In its announcement, IBM noted that organizations are facing more complexity with public and private clouds and numerous service providers, and are grappling to gain visibility into … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kyverno
Kyverno is a policy engine designed specifically for Kubernetes and the name means “govern” in Greek. The management of policies in Kyverno is done through Kubernetes resources, eliminating the need for learning a new language to write policies. This approach enables the utilization of well-known tools like kubectl, git, and kustomize to handle policy management … continue reading
