Kentik offers free Cloud Latency Map to provide insights into cloud latency around the world
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
Lenovo and Cisco partner to provide enterprise solutions for workplace collaboration, AI
Earlier this year, Lenovo and Cisco announced that they were collaborating to bring their customers workplace solutions that incorporate generative AI and improve enterprise productivity. Now, the two companies are revealing several new offerings that have come about through this partnership. First, they announced TruScale Meeting Room as a Service (TS MRaaS), which is a … continue reading
Gartner predicts a 9.3% increase in IT spending in 2025
Gartner is predicting that IT spending will continue to grow in 2025. Specifically, they predict a 9.3% increase from this year, with the total spending equaling $5.74 trillion. Generative AI investments are driving data center spending, which grew by 34.7% in 2024, and represented the biggest increase of the various IT spending categories. Gartner doesn’t … continue reading
Report: IT outages cost $1.9 million per hour on average
The average cost of IT outages has increased to $1.9 million per hour, with the median downtime for a high-impact outage being 77 hours. This is according to observability company New Relic’s newly released 2024 Observability Forecast, which surveyed 1,700 IT professionals from 16 countries. Just a decade ago, Gartner reported that the average cost … continue reading
RHEL AI 1.2 adds support for new hardware accelerators from Lenovo and AMD
Red Hat has announced the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), its platform for developing, testing, and running LLMs. “Building on the success of our initial release of RHEL AI 1.1 on September 5, 2024, this version furthers our commitment to empowering developers, AI engineers and data scientists by lowering the … continue reading
FIDO Alliance’s newest specifications for passkeys enable better user choice and flexibility in credential managers
The driving force behind passkeys, the FIDO Alliance, is working to make passkeys even easier to adopt by publishing new working drafts of specifications for secure credential exchange, a format for transferring different types of credentials in a credential manager. Passkeys have significant momentum at this moment of time, with over 12 billion online accounts … continue reading
ClearML’s GPU-as-a-Service provides multi-tenant access to AI infrastructure
The AI development platform ClearML is making it even easier for companies with multiple teams working on AI solutions to get the infrastructure they need. GPU-as-a-Service provides access to large on-premise or cloud computing clusters that are multi-tenant so that multiple teams can work off them. ClearML tracks compute consumption, data storage, API calls, and … continue reading
AWS Console-to-Code jump starts infrastructure automation
AWS has released a new solution designed to make it easier to get started with infrastructure automation. AWS Console-to-Code allows users to record the console actions they are performing and have those actions converted to code for later use. Code can be generated in several different infrastructure-as-code (IaC) formats, like an AWS CloudFormation template (YAML … continue reading
Simbian’s new AI Agents enable more efficient security operations
The AI-powered IT security company Simbian has announced a set of three new AI Agents that can “work alongside security teams to enhance the intelligence, speed, and coverage of their entire security program.” SOC Agent investigates and responds to security alerts, leveraging knowledge from security experts, the company’s playbooks, and user guidance to create responses … continue reading
Commvault’s Cloud Rewind enables quick restoration of data and cloud applications following incidents
Commvault is making it easier for companies to restore their services after a cyberattack with the launch of Cloud Rewind. According to Commvault, following an attack, restoring data is half the battle, but the other half is restoring the applications that actually run and power that data. Organizations can’t typically be in “business-as-usual” operations until … continue reading
Six security principles that operators of critical OT systems should be following
A number of international government organizations have come together to publish the “Principles of operational technology cyber security,” which features six principles to follow. The guide was created by the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), and co-sealed by government security offices from the U.S, U.K, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, the Netherlands, … continue reading
Report: IT professionals are struggling with the process of tackling tool sprawl within their organizations
Almost all IT professionals are wanting to consolidate the tools in their organizations, but half of them are feeling overwhelmed by the process of doing so. This is according to Quickbase’s new survey of 1,000 IT professionals in the US, United Kingdom, and Ireland, about the state of technology tool sprawl. “For a long time, … continue reading
