KubeCon + Cloud Native Con is happening this week in Salt Lake City, UT, bringing together the Kubernetes community in one location, and providing the opportunity for companies in the space to launch new offerings and update their products. We’ve collected the news announcements from those companies all in one place so you can stay … continue reading
The data infrastructure and storage company NetApp has announced new storage offerings at varying prices, including ones at more accessible price points for smaller organizations. New models in the AFF A-Series of data storage solutions include A20, A30, and A50, and these offer sub-millisecond latency and a 2.5x improvement over previous versions. The A20 starts … continue reading
The W3C has announced that it has formed a new group called the Sustainable Web Interest Group to tackle improving the sustainability of the Internet. According to the W3C, “if the Internet were a country it would be one of the top five polluters,” and its resource demands are only going to continue to grow … continue reading
Microsoft has announced a new deployment option in Azure OpenAI that provides more flexibility and control over data privacy and residency for companies in the United States and European Union. With Azure OpenAI Data Zones, customers can process and store data within specific geographic areas without compromising performance. According to Microsoft, Data Zones allow for … continue reading
Edera, provider of a secure-by-design Kubernetes and AI solution, today announced the availability of Am I Isolated, an open-source container security benchmark that probes users runtime environments and tests for container isolation. The Rust-based container runtime scanner runs as a container and detects gaps in users’ container runtime isolation. It also provides guidance to improve … continue reading
IBM and the IT modernization company Cognizant have announced the launch of the FinOps Center of Excellence, which will combine IBM’s technologies with Cognizant’s expertise to help companies address the escalating costs associated with AI readiness, cloud governance, and architectural modernization. “Modern businesses face significant challenges in managing complexity, operational risks, and cost overhead due … continue reading
CrowdStrike has announced that it will be acquiring Adaptive Shield, a company that provides security monitoring capabilities for SaaS applications. “This acquisition will propel CrowdStrike to become the only cybersecurity vendor to provide full protection against identity-based attacks across the modern cloud ecosystem — from on-premises Active Directory to cloud-based identity providers and the growing … continue reading
Tintri®, a subsidiary of DDN®, and leader in AI-powered data management solutions, today announced the availability of Tintri’s VMstore™ features to Kubernetes environments with its new VMstore Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver. The Tintri VMstore platform provides unparalleled visibility into performance, data protection and management for virtual machine workloads, with a focus on simplicity. The CSI … continue reading
Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced Pure Storage Cloud for Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS), a new fully managed block storage-as-a-service (STaaS) offering available for AVS. This new solution, soon to be in preview, will be offered as an Azure Native integration. The … continue reading
New Relic unveiled the New Relic Intelligent Observability Platform, transforming observability from ensuring uptime and reliability into a key driver of business growth and developer velocity for enterprises worldwide. The platform is strengthened by the New Relic AI Engine to predict and prevent issues, and streamline business and IT operations with automation. With new innovations like … continue reading
Usage of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is prevalent, but like with any technology, the pros aren’t without cons. IaC has the potential to improve reliability, security, and development velocity, but in reality, developers are running into some issues using this practice. Insights into some of these challenges were revealed in new research called Stacked Up: … continue reading
Container security company Edera is working to improve application-level memory safety in Linux with the release of OpenPaX, an open source kernel patch that mitigates common memory safety errors. It was initially created to benefit Edera’s own customers, but the company decided to open source it to make it available to the broader community. The … continue reading
The observability company Cloud Canaries has announced the launch of Observability Canaries, enabling teams to enhance their existing observability tools with OpenTelemetry. By integrating observability tools with OpenTelemetry, teams get access to a “readily available, additional data source for model creation, alarming, forecast generation and validation,” Cloud Canaries wrote in its announcement. According to the … continue reading
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