Q&A: Software escrow’s role in business continuity planning
When you’re relying on lots of other services in your technology stack, you need to have a plan for what to do if the company offering that service shuts down. Software escrow — which is the practice of depositing the source code of that service with a third-party — can be a crucial part of …
Maestro – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Earlier this week, Netflix open sourced Maestro, a highly scalable workflow orchestrator for handling large-scale workflows, like data pipelines. It can manage the entire workflow lifecycle, including retries, queuing, task distribution to compute engines, and more. Workflows in Maestro follow the directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure, composed of individual job definitions, or Steps. These Steps …
Hitachi Vantara’s Hitachi IQ portfolio is now available with certification from NVIDIA
Hitachi Vantara is trying to help IT teams set their companies up for AI adoption with the general availability of the Hitachi IQ platform and the Hitachi Vantara AI Discovery Service. Its AI platform Hitachi IQ will enable customers to access the infrastructure needed to realize the value of AI, the company explained. In its …
ServiceNow acquires Raytion to level up its AI search capabilities
The IT service management company ServiceNow has announced the acquisition of Raytion, which is an information search and retrieval company. ServiceNow has invested heavily into AI in recent years, and the purpose of this acquisition is to enhance its AI-powered search and knowledge management capabilities. The goal is that this new technology will enable real-time …
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Gluware 5.4 introduces new network discovery capabilities
The network automation company Gluware has announced the next version of its platform: Gluware 5.4. This release introduces new network discovery capabilities, such as a new subnet-based search and the ability to create search jobs. The company has also updated the network discovery UI to be more intuitive. In addition, with this latest update, Ansible …
CrowdStrike outages underscores importance of incident planning
If you’re working in the IT organization of a company that uses CrowdStrike to protect its Windows computers, you likely spent your whole Friday (and possibly the weekend) trying to revert back a bad update that led to those machines crashing. Earlier that morning, CrowdStrike had pushed an update to Windows machines that caused a …
Q&A: Is nuclear energy the key to meeting the demands of AI workloads?
AI requires a whole lot of power to run, and as more and more AI workloads are added, the power demand will just get greater. According to a report from Schneider Electric, in 2023 AI consumed 8% of the total power demanded by data centers, and this number is expected to grow to 15-20% by …
Win11Debloat – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Win11Debloat is an open-source PowerShell script for removing pre-installed Windows apps and disabling telemetry and intrusive interface elements, ads, and more. Rather than having to go through settings and removing things one-by-one, Win11Debloat can run once and remove everything that is unwanted. The script itself is customizable, so users can pick and choose what they …
Cerbos Hub launches to simplify deployment of authorization policies
The authorization company Cerbos has announced the general availability of Cerbos Hub, which is a management system for authoring, testing, and deploying authorization policies using the company’s open-source authorization layer Policy Decision Point (PDP). With PDP, authorization policies are separated from application code, which allows authorization to scale and change as the application’s needs change …
Securing client-facing apps in a hostile, risk-filled 21st century
The digital landscape is exploding with mobile apps as they become an essential element for businesses to meet consumer expectations, with the Apple Store now offering 1.96 million apps and the Google Play store boasting 2.87 million apps. On top of this, a whopping 148.2 billion mobile, desktop, and web apps were downloaded in 2023. …
Druva announces new Threat Hunting capability for getting insights into potential threats
The security company Druva has announced new capabilities to help customers more efficiently investigate and remediate cyber threats. It launched a new Threat Hunting capability for indicators of compromise (IOC) that provides IT and security teams with insights into the gestation, timeline, and impact of potential threats in their environment. According to the company, traditional …
Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 now available with several new virtualization features
Red Hat has announced the latest version of OpenShift, its Kubernetes-based application development and deployment platform. “Being able to more quickly modernize both infrastructure and applications are crucial capabilities to better support customer needs — but this can’t be done overnight,” said Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager of Hybrid Cloud Platforms at Red …
Report: Majority of security pros admit to using “shadow SaaS” apps
A recent survey from Next DLP revealed that over the last year, 73% of security professionals have used used “shadow Saas,” or SaaS applications not provided or approved by their IT teams. Further, even though they are using shadow SaaS, they admitted to being aware of the risks of doing so, with the most commonly …
Q&A: What the consolidation of the SIEM market means for IT
Over the last several months, multiple security information and event management (SIEM) platforms have either merged or been acquired. LogRhythm merged with Exabeam, Palo Alto Networks acquired IBM’s QRadar portfolio, and Cisco acquired Splunk. To talk about why this is happening and what it all means, Chas Clawson, field CTO at Sumo Logic, joined the …
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AI’s Impact on Network Engineering and Operations – Microwebinar Series
AI’s Impact on Network Engineering and Operations Join Phil Gervasi from Kentik for this insightful 15-minute microwebinar where we will dive straight into the essential aspects of AI and uncover the practical realities of its application in network engineering, netops, and network architecture. …
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AI meets Network: Now what?
There’s a lot of buzz about AI in networking, but it can’t be real…right? Join our webinar where we’ll explore both the potential and the limitations of AI, providing a balanced view on its practical applications. By the end of this webinar, you’ll have a clear understanding of where AI can genuinely add value and …
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4 Requirements for a Single Pane of Glass in IT Operations
AVAILABLE NOW | For years, technology vendors have promoted the ‘single pane of glass’ as a silver bullet for service-oriented management. The promise was simple: buy this mega-suite of tools and get a single view of your IT environment. Unfortunately, the promise of a single pane of glass for IT operations and management has resulted …
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ITOps Times Live! Microwebinar Series – Internet Resilience
WATCH THE FULL SERIES Every business today relies on the Internet for critical business operations, and IT professionals must ensure Internet Resilience for their company’s customers and workforce. But what does that mean and how can they monitor everything in the digital delivery chain when so much is out of their control? The answer: Internet Performance …
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The State of AIOps 2023: Delivering Value but Falling Short of Expectations
AVAILABLE NOW | Hype continues to build around artificial intelligence and its implications for business and our everyday lives. But seven years after Gartner coined the term AIOps–artificial intelligence for IT operations–just what is the state of AIOps development and adoption in the enterprise IT world? To find out, OpsRamp commissioned a survey of enterprise …
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[Demo] Infrastructure Monitoring with LM Envision_MP4
See LM Envision in action LogicMonitor’s SaaS-based infrastructure monitoring platform is a breeze to set up and scale with your entire environment. In this demo, Sales Engineer Stuart Carrison discusses the LogicMonitor architecture, how data is collected, logs, and some of our powerful features. Features covered include: – Forecasting data to see potential upcoming trends …
ITOps Times Newswire
- Cloud Canaries Introduces Intelligent Canaries to Disrupt the Observability Market
- Mirantis Introduces OpenStack for Kubernetes
- Omdia: serverless computing, valued at $19bn is the fastest-growing cloud service
- Vega Cloud Announces Cosmoo, the AI FinOps Analyst
- Rapid7’s AI engine supercharges security operations with generative AI
- LastPass Launches LastPass Compliance Center
- Finout raises $26 million Series B, leading FinOps forward with its complete platform
- DigiCert Unveils Device Trust Manager for Comprehensive IoT Device Security
- Palo Alto Networks Launches New Security Solutions Infused with Precision AI to Defend Against Advanced Threats and Safeguard AI Adoption
- Sysdig launches AI workload security to mitigate active AI risk
- Cisco Completes Acquisition of Splunk
- Yotascale Unleashes Generative AI on Cloud Operations to Reinvent Cloud Cost Management
