Drowning in CVEs and Cybersecurity Compliance Risks? There’s a Solution: Hardened Software Platforms
Mitigating common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) is a critical responsibility for every organization that takes cybersecurity and compliance seriously. But it is also a daunting one because fixing CVEs can feel like trying to slay the Hydra (a monster in ancient Greek myth that grew two new heads every time it lost one): Every time … continue reading
LogicMonitor acquires Catchpoint in $250 million deal
AI-first observability platform provider LogicMonitor told announced it has finalized the acquisition of Catchpoint, creators of a digital experience and internet performance monitoring platform, to move observability from reactive to preventative. For years, infrastructure monitoring involved teams looking at screens and acting on alerts that pop up. This acquisition, according to LogicMonitor, is about staying … continue reading
The New Era of IT: SUSE’s Vision for AI-Assisted Infrastructure
The complexities of managing numerous Linux systems are giving way to a fundamental shift to make IT operations proactive and automated. To meet this new paradigm, SUSE is unveiling its strategic vision for AI-assisted infrastructure. The core of this shift lies in managing complexity through natural language commands. In SUSE’s vision, Instead of manually combing … continue reading
A Framework for Building Trust in AI Site Reliability Engineering
Managing cloud-native environments has never been harder. Modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams are buried under a flood of telemetry, incidents, and constantly-changing infrastructure. For years, the playbook was simple: add more dashboards, collect more metrics, write better runbooks, and automate what you can. But as systems scale, even the best-run teams are hitting a … continue reading
ScienceLogic updates its Skylar One IT platform
Observability platform provider ScienceLogic today announced the first major update to its flagship Skylar One platform since its rebrand and expansion from SL1 (the ScienceLogic AI Platform). The release delivers deeper network and automated system intelligence for large-scale enterprises and service providers, along with a new user interface and improved visualizations. “Skylar One Juneau is a significant … continue reading
Opsera announces partnership with Koantek to accelerate Databricks adoption
DevOps platform provider Opsera has announced a strategic partnership with Koantek, an Elite Databricks Partner and Databricks Ventures–backed SI. Together, the companies will help enterprises deploy, scale and operate Databricks faster, more securely and with enterprise-grade governance. They offer a joint delivery model that pairs expert engineering with repeatable automation—helping customers move from manual, script‑heavy … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Chronosphere, Next-Gen Observability Leader, for the AI Era
Cybersecurity provider Palo Alto Networks today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire observability platform provider Chronosphere for $3.35 billion in cash and equity, subject to changes in the deal’s value. The deal enhances Palo Alto Networks’ ability to help organizations build a unified data and security fouhdation required for today’s applications … continue reading
Why Network Observability Must Start Outside the Data Center
Most organizations with network operations today believe they have a good handle on network observability—they’ve progressed past legacy tools and have excellent data collection within the four walls of their data center. They are masters of packets, latency, faults, and performance logs for their internal, managed infrastructure. Yet, when you ask them to assess their … continue reading
KubeCon 2025: CNCF to Standardize AI Workloads
Ten years after standardizing Kubernetes, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced at KubeCon 2025 NA in Atlanta that they are working to standardize AI workloads on Kubernetes, with the goal of achieving broad industry adoption of the standard. Announced on November 11 the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program creates open, community-defined standards for running … continue reading
Broadcom Advances Open Ecosystem for VMware Cloud Foundation
Broadcom today announced it is advancing an open, extensible ecosystem for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), enabling customers to build, connect, protect, and extend their modern private clouds. With these announcements, Broadcom is delivering a private cloud platform that is open and adaptable across all infrastructure layers. Customers will have increased ability to leverage their preferred … continue reading
ActiveState Launches Secure Container Image Catalog
Open source security provider ActiveState today launched its Secure Container Image Catalog, designed to help developers, DevOps, and security professionals browse, evaluate, and pull ActiveState’s latest secure container images, without the need for third-party registries. Users can access the catalog by visiting catalog.activestate.com. Meeting the Modern Software Supply Chain Challenge The use of containers in … continue reading
KubeCon Roundup: Day 2
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America continues on in Atlanta, and during the second day of the event, a number of new announcements were made. Here are some of the highlights: NVIDIA Grove improves inference scaling on Kubernetes NVIDIA announced the release of NVIDIA Grove, an open-source API for running modern ML inference workloads on Kubernetes … continue reading
KubeCon Roundup: Day 1
Today marks the opening of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, with a number of events spotlighting several of the projects being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The co-located events, being held in Atlanta, include CiliumCon, ArgoCon, BackstageCon, Open Source SecurityCon and more. Many of the sponsors showcasing products at KubeCon have … continue reading
Network Capacity Planning: Gut Feeling, Spreadsheets, or AI?
Remember that piece I wrote a little while back, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Network Bandwidth“? I promised then that we’d tackle the often-thorny issue of capacity planning. Well, today’s the day. So, what exactly is capacity planning? At its heart, it’s about ensuring your network has the resources – the bandwidth, the … continue reading
