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
Gigamon Extends Deep Observability Pipeline to Address Emerging Cryptographic Threats in Quantum Computing
Gigamon, a leader in deep observability, today announced the availability of GigaVUE 6.12, introducing new support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC), further expanding the capabilities of the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline. This release equips organizations with an immediate defensive strategy against emerging cryptographic threats hidden in encrypted traffic, including both classic and post- quantum ciphers, while … continue reading
Evo by Snyk: The World’s First Agentic Security Orchestration System
Snyk, the AI security company, has announced the launch of Evo by Snyk, the world’s first agentic security orchestration system designed to secure AI-native applications and tools, including GenAI and agentic. Evo ushers in the era of the empowered AI Security Engineer, acting as both guide and autonomous teammate for deploying the intelligent orchestration, automation, … continue reading
Before Slurm: The Challenge of Managing Clusters
In the early years of High-Performance Computing (HPC), managing workloads across a cluster of machines was largely a manual effort. Users had to log into specific nodes, assign jobs by hand, and often write custom scripts to keep track of resources. While this approach was manageable in small labs with a handful of machines, it … continue reading
Virtual machines and containers: Better together
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to optimize their infrastructure for running applications. This often leads to the creation of vertical silos across departments, each with its own compute and application solutions. For instance, a quality control team might deploy an infrastructure to monitor and control quality, while cybersecurity, manufacturing … continue reading
Report: AI gaining momentum in enterprises, but data issues hinder success
Some 98% of companies participating in Broadcom’s “Enterprise AI and the Data Problem” AI adoption survey say they are deploying AI solutions, yet challenges relating to data management, visibility, security and governance are hindering success. “AI is delivering real business value, but it isn’t without its challenges,” Aline Gerew, head of automation for the Agile … continue reading
AWS outage highlights risks of single cloud deployments
Early Monday morning, an issue in AWS caused widespread outages across the internet for about three hours, starting around 3 AM ET. In an update to its status page, AWS said that the issue was related to DNS resolution in an API for its database, DynamoDB. Throughout the three hours while the issue was being … continue reading
