IT vendors are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms to help IT operations teams be more efficient and productive. Here are several of those updates from the past month.

Red Hat Summit news: RHEL 10, OpenShift Lightspeed

Red Hat made several announcements at its Summit event, including the announcements of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 and OpenShift Lightspeed, both infused with AI to meet the demands of today’s hybrid environments and AI workloads.

RHEL 10 introduces Lightspeed, which brings generative AI into the platform’s command line to help users with troubleshooting issues and using best practices for IT management.

Lightspeed also can guide IT teams with tailored assistance to traverse complex application landscapes with efficiency, by using natural languages to field questions about OpenShift and assist with troubleshooting and investigating cluster resources, for example. Further, it offers integration with top model providers OpenAI, Azure OpenAI and IBM’s watsonx.

Virtana releases observability platform for AI infrastructure

Virtana AI Factory Observability (AIFO) provides visibility into GPU utilization, training bottlenecks, power consumption, and more. It also maps AI model performance to hardware behavior, including network and storage dependencies.

According to the company, insights from AIFO can lead to up to a 40% reduction in idle GPU time, 60% faster mean time to resolution (MTTR), 50% decrease in false alerts, and 15% improvement in power efficiency.

“AI workloads introduce an entirely different set of infrastructure challenges—from GPU saturation and training bottlenecks to unpredictable cost spikes,” said Amitkumar Rathi, senior vice president of engineering, product, and support at Virtana. “We designed AIFO to address these realities head-on. It gives teams deep, correlated visibility across the full AI stack, enabling them to optimize performance, reduce waste, and scale AI with confidence.”

LastPass tackles Shadow AI with new SaaS Monitoring feature

LastPass is introducing a new feature that will help IT teams cut down on Shadow IT, including Shadow AI, in their organizations.

SaaS Monitoring provides insights into what applications are being used across an organization, allowing IT teams to see unapproved business tools, monitor application usage, and even enforce password and access management policies to further reduce risk.

It runs through the LastPass browser extension, so there is no extra application to install or configure for companies already utilizing LastPass for password management.

OneTrust creates governance solution for AI-ready data

OneTrust announced its Data Use Governance solution, which it said is designed to close the gap between traditional data governance and the real-time compliance demands of AI. The solution provides such things as programmatic data policies and enforcement along with automated data controls to speed data enablement for a company’s AI efforts.

“The future of governance isn’t about restricting data, it’s about ensuring data is used responsibly, efficiently, and in alignment with data and AI innovation goals,”  Blake Brannon, chief product and strategy officer at OneTrust, said in the announcement. “The biggest challenge for data governance teams has been enforcement, impossible to achieve without translating documented data policies into code. OneTrust now enables our customers to turn data policies, grounded in compliance, privacy, and consent requirements, into programmatic logic that automates enforcement at the level of the data query itself. With OneTrust, data use governance is no longer a barrier — it’s an enabler.”

Latest BMC Helix updates extend AI agent usage in IT service management

BMC Helix announced updates to its IT and service management platforms that extend the use of AI agents in those areas.

BMC Helix IT Operations Management for AIOps 25.2 adds the HelixGPT Post Mortem Analyzer, which generates a detailed review and summary following an incident. It also now includes the HelixGPT Insight Finder, which ITOps teams can use to generate dashboards and reports via a natural language chat interface.

BMC Helix Service Management 25.2 adds an Agent Builder for building custom IT agents using a no-code configuration framework.

ManageEngine’s PAM360 now offers AI generated least privilege policies

ManageEngine has added a number of AI-based capabilities to its privileged access management platform PAM360.

According to the company, traditional PAM models rely on static policies and don’t have sufficient context, resulting in excessive permissions, entitlement drift, and configuration errors.

These updates aim to reduce those issues by automating the process of generating least privilege policies and remediating shadow admin risks.