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Snowflake to acquire Observe to improve its ITOM position, help customers proactively troubleshoot issues
ByDavid Rubinstein January 8, 2026

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

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AWS outage highlights risks of single cloud deployments
ByJenna Barron October 21, 2025

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

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Four trends reshaping Kubernetes platform engineering
ByItiel Shwartz May 8, 2025May 8, 2025

The growing complexity of modern software development and operations—which includes Kubernetes —is fueling the rise in popularity of platform engineering. As DevOps reaches its limits for managing fragmented toolchains, complex workflows, and sprawling cloud environments, platform engineering helps bring order to the chaos through scalable, self-service infrastructure and standardized developer experiences, with Kubernetes often at… … continue reading

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Kentik offers free Cloud Latency Map to provide insights into cloud latency around the world
ByJenna Barron October 29, 2024October 29, 2024

Network observability platform Kentik today released Cloud Latency Map, a free tool that provides insights into latency in over 100 different cloud regions around the world. According to Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik and the creator of the Cloud Latency Map, this new tool can help IT teams determine if a connectivity… … continue reading

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pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition provides advanced replication across regions and providers
ByJenna Barron September 30, 2024

The distributed Postgres company pgEdge has announced the general availability of its pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition, which will make it easier for businesses to distribute their databases across multiple regions and providers. According to the company, this offering builds upon the new capabilities added in the pgEdge Platform Constellation release, which included improvements to logical… … continue reading

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SUSE: Cloud security incidents down this year, but companies remain vigilant
ByJenna Barron August 28, 2024

Companies are experiencing fewer cloud security incidents this year than in years past, yet they still have concerns related to cloud and edge. This is according to SUSE’s latest Securing the Cloud report, which surveyed 820 IT engineers, architects, developers, security managers, and directors across the US, Germany, UK, France, and the Netherlands. According to… … continue reading

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Cloudforet – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
ByJenna Barron August 2, 2024August 2, 2024

Cloudforet is an open-source project hosted by the Linux Foundation that provides a single platform for managing cloud resources from different providers. By having everything accessible from one platform, IT admins can quickly search cloud resources and analyze them. They also get better visibility into costs because billing data is also included and there are… … continue reading

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Unleashing innovation via Composable Cloud: Customizing AI tech stacks for inference at the edge
ByKevin Cochrane April 10, 2024

Edge operations dominate the CTO agenda today, and as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning grow increasingly important across business operations, the CIO, CAIO, CDO, and other leaders are joining the conversation, leaning into edge operations to deliver AI at scale. However, the traditional edge operations designed to support distributed web apps can’t handle the… … continue reading

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Lacework launches new capabilities for securing cloud environments
ByJenna Barron April 2, 2024

The security company Lacework has announced the addition of new capabilities to its platform to help IT and security teams more easily secure their cloud environments. The first new addition is Lacework Explorer, which is designed to provide better visibility into potential threats. It provides a visualization of the relationships between cloud resources, which helps… … continue reading

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Kyndryl and Cloudflare partner to accelerate Zero Trust Security
ByJakub Lewkowicz March 20, 2024

Kyndryl and Cloudflare have announced an expansion of their partnership aimed at enabling enterprises to migrate and manage networks for multi-cloud connectivity and comprehensive network security. This partnership leverages Kyndryl’s consulting services and expertise in enterprise networking, security, and resiliency, alongside Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud that integrates security, performance, and cloud flexibility. Initially partnering in May… … continue reading

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Cloudflare releases two new security solutions for preventing AI-based attacks
ByJakub Lewkowicz March 4, 2024

Cloudflare has announced two new security solutions designed to help protect against AI-based threats: Defensive AI, a personalized approach to securing organizations against risks caused by AI, and Firewall for AI, which scans LLM prompts for language commonly used in attacks. Defensive AI provides tailored mitigations that enable the protection of critical applications and entire… … continue reading

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Kentik AI offers network monitoring and observability
ByJakub Lewkowicz January 31, 2024January 31, 2024

Kentik, a company specializing in network observability, has announced the introduction of Kentik AI, a new tool designed to simplify the process of troubleshooting complex networks for engineers, operators, architects, and developers. This launch aims to make it easier for professionals to identify and resolve network issues promptly and efficiently. Alongside Kentik AI, the company… … continue reading

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