Overcoming IT and OT integration challenges with Penguin Solutions fault-tolerant computing
While there are numerous benefits to bringing IT and OT together, achieving success requires thoughtfully addressing a number of challenges. Running virtual machines (VMs) in OT environments alongside containers in IT environments allows companies to combine the isolation and stability of VMs with the agility of containerized applications. However, both have different requirements that must … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks Completes Chronosphere Acquisition, Unifying Observability and Security for the AI Era
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — As enterprises increasingly rely on AI to run digital operations, protect assets, and drive growth, success depends on one critical factor: trusted, high-quality, real-time data. Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Chronosphere addressing a core challenge of the AI era: the inability … continue reading
Site reliability is becoming more about resilience, report finds
Site reliability is no longer proven by uptime alone, according to the results of The SRE Report 2026 issued by LogicMonitor through its recent acquisition of Catchpoint, which has run this report for eight years. “Reliability is becoming this idea of resilience. It’s about moving from uptime to performance to experience, from reliability to resilience,” … continue reading
12 new security vulnerabilities detected in OpenSSL using AI-driven discovery
Security researchers from AISLE have identified 12 new security vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, the widely adopted open-source library that underpins encryption, authentication and secure communications across the internet. The vulnerabilities are addressed in a coordinated OpenSSL security release published today, with patches now available to users and downstream software maintainers. According to its blog, the AISLE had … continue reading
Userful’s Infinity Platform Achieves Breakthroughs in Security, Operational Awareness, and Response
Userful, creators of a software-defined platform for enterprise-wide operational awareness and response, today announced unification of observability, security, visualization, and critical event management into a single operational command layer, bringing together more than $60 billion in addressable market under one software-defined umbrella. Built on its Infinity Platform’s quad-play workflow are critical integrations and features enabled … continue reading
BMC Advances Business-Driven Automation and Mainframe Transformation with AI-Powered Innovations
BMC today announced AI innovations updates across its Control-M and BMC AMI portfolios to simplify workflow creation, automate issue resolution, act on expert mainframe knowledge, and more. New AI capabilities and innovations include: AI Workflow Creator – Gen AI copilot for guided workflow design BMC continues to close the gap between IT and business users, empowering … continue reading
Harness introduces Human-Aware Change Agent for its AI SRE unified response system.
A human-aware change agent that has been created to use the insight of people to drive automated incident investigation has been released by software delivery platform provider Harness as a part of its AI SRE unified response system. While most AI approaches to software reliability involve the use of logs, metrics, traces and anomaly detectors, … continue reading
AI Governance is the Next IT Battleground
AI has moved decisively from experimentation to execution. It now sits at the core of enterprise transformation strategies, reshaping how organizations think about performance, resilience, risk, and accountability. As AI becomes operational rather than exploratory, governance has emerged as the defining priority for IT and cloud infrastructure leaders tasked with running the digital backbone of … continue reading
Battery Data Alliance Project Announces The Battery Data Format (BDF): A New Open Standard for Battery Data Interoperability
LF Energy, the open source foundation accelerating the energy transition, today announced that its Battery Data Alliance (BDA) project has released the Battery Data Format (BDF), an open, community-driven standard designed to bring order, interoperability, and transparency to the rapidly growing world of battery data. BDF defines a consistent structure for experimental, simulation, and metadata-rich battery … continue reading
LogicMonitor: Autonomous IT is closer than we think
Advanced observability and monitoring hold the key to autonomous IT, according to a summary of findings fron the 2026 Observability and AI Outlook for IT Leaders report from LogicMonitor. The monitoring of an enormous number of metrics, logs and alerts, coupled with the expanse of infrastructure beyond the data center into multiple cloud environments, has … continue reading
Coralogix Announces U.S. Department of Education Sponsorship for FedRAMP Authorization
BOSTON – Coralogix, the leading full-stack observability platform, has announced that the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid will serve as the official sponsoring agency for the company’s pursuit of a FedRAMP Moderate authorization. Coralogix will be the first AI observability platform to achieve this milestone. Upon earning this certification, Coralogix will be approved to provide U.S. … continue reading
Snowflake to acquire Observe to improve its ITOM position, help customers proactively troubleshoot issues
AI data cloud company Snowflake today said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Observe, a leader in AI-powered observability. The acquisition will integrate Observe’s platform directly into Snowflake, expanding that company’s capabilities in the IT operations management market, valued at more than $50 billion, according to Gartner research. The combination of Observe’s AI Site … continue reading
IT Operations and Management predictions for 2026
Advancements in artificial intelligence in 2025 marked a seismic shift in how organizations can use the tools to automate IT processes, predict network interruptions and identify and remediate issues that could lead to poor performance, or worse, cybersecurity breaches. This article includes the thoughts of industry leaders as to what we might expect moving into … continue reading
Meet the Unsung Hero of Digital Success
When outages hit, everyone blames the app, the cloud, or the firewall because that’s what users can see. Often, the real culprit is the network, specifically core network services such as DNS. Every service is reliant on DNS and a well-defined IP address space. When core services aren’t resilient and centrally managed, organizations struggle to … continue reading
