Topic: quantum
IBM reveals quantum computing progress made over the last year
IBM has made significant progress on the quantum computing front in the past year. At its first ever IBM Quantum Developer Conference, the company revealed that its quantum stack Qiskit can “execute certain mirrored kicked Ising quantum circuits of up to 5,000 gates” on the quantum processor IBM Quantum Heron. This is almost double the … continue reading
Podcast: Diving into NIST’s quantum-safe algorithms
There’s been a concern that quantum computers could break the current encryption algorithms we use to protect data today. Recently, NIST announced the approval of three quantum-safe algorithms that could withstand quantum computers. IBM developed two of the approved algorithms, so on the most recent episode of our podcast, Get With IT, we interviewed Vadim … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud’s Grafana plugin, NS1’s traffic automation platform, and Quantum and Supermicro collaboration
Google Cloud has announced updates to its Cloud Monitoring plugin for Grafana. It has added sample dashboards for Google Cloud services, a deeper link between Grafana and Google Cloud Monitoring, an improved query interface, and a new Monitoring Query Language (MQL) interface. “The observability of metrics is a key factor for a successful operations team, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Commvault expands BaaS portfolio, Quantum launches new hybrid storage arrays, InterVision announces cloud cost savings tool
Commvault has announced an expansion to its backup as a service (BaaS) portfolio. New additions include enhanced SaaS application protection, the addition of Oracle and Active Directory to Metallic Database Backup, and the addition HyperScale X as an edge offering for Metallic. “As we continue our global rollout of Metallic, we’re finding more and more … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Dynatrace PurePath 4, StorMagic and HPE partnership, and Quantum’s ActiveScale updates
Dynatrace has announced the release of PurePath 4. PurePath is a distributed tracing and code analysis tool, and version 4 expands support for OpenTelemetry, W3C Trace Context, and the latest cloud-native architectures, like service mesh and serverless computing for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. “We pioneered distributed tracing with the introduction of PurePath in … continue reading
