Microsoft is adding to the list of offerings it has that incorporate AI to improve how businesses run. Microsoft Security Copilot combines the capabilities of GPT-4 with Microsoft’s security capabilities to provide an end-to-end defense system. The company hopes that this new solution will enable security to be a more human endeavor as security professionals … continue reading
Digital transformation continues to be the focus for organizations seeking to improve efficiencies and increase profits in 2023. Digitizing business processes to power automation has the potential to revolutionize operations. Available data also has more value than ever, thanks to new digital processes. IDC reports that $1.8 trillion will be spent on digital transformation in … continue reading
A new Catchpoint survey in collaboration with Forrester Consulting found that nearly 40% of all respondents suffer customer-impacting disruptions, which cost up to $1 million per month. For most of those companies – mostly consumer brands and retailers with a significant volume of online transactions and a company size of over 1,000 employees – even … continue reading
Google Cloud launched a new generally available feature called “VM suspend/resume,” which enables users to save money by temporarily suspending virtual machines (VMs) on Google Compute Engine when they are not in use, and then resuming them when needed. In the suspended state, users no longer have to pay for cores or RAM and instead … continue reading
Salt is an event-driven automation tool and framework built in Python to deploy, configure, and manage complex IT systems. This open-source project can be used to automate common infrastructure administration tasks and be sure that all parts of the users infrastructure are operating correctly. Salt can also be used to manage operating system deployment and … continue reading
Flexera, a company that works to help organizations gain business value from their technology investments, today released Flexera One FinOps to strengthen an enterprise’s FinOps and cloud central teams. This release is intended to enhance the combination of IT asset management and FinOps in order to improve the way enterprises visualize and administer cloud usage … continue reading
ServiceNow has announced a major expansion to its Now Platform with the Utah release, with new automations, risk reduction capabilities, and employee productivity and engagement improvements. New automation capabilities include a new AI Search for helping service workers find the information they need faster. The new smart search includes features like auto-complete suggestions, exact match, … continue reading
Cybersecurity and observability company Splunk today announced new innovations to its unified security and observability platform, including improvements to Splunk Mission Control and Splunk Observability Cloud, as well as the general availability of Splunk Edge Professor. These innovations are geared at assisting teams as they work to build safer and more resilient digital enterprises. With … continue reading
AWS announced that teams can now use AWS Chatbot to troubleshoot and operate AWS resources from Microsoft Teams. This provides a more streamlined way to interact with AWS services from the Teams platform, allowing users to quickly access resources and services, and to receive notifications. The integration also supports user authentication for secure access to … continue reading
Looking back just a few years ago, business networks were viewed by most as “dumb pipes” – merely a means to send data from one place to the next. The interfaces and tools used to manage networks, such as the command line interface (CLI), were focused on manual interactions of engineers – logging in, changing … continue reading
Grafana Phlare is an open-source observability tool for continuous profiling at a massive scale. This helps users get a better understanding of resource usage in their applications down to the line number. The project was announced in 2022 at ObservabilityCON. The project natively integrates with Grafana, making it possible for users to correlate their profiling … continue reading
Public resolvers dominate the internet, accounting for nearly 60% of recursive DNS usage, while telecom giants represent nearly 9%, according to application traffic solution provider NS1. NS1 used its DNS Insights to analyze more than 7.5 trillion DNS queries and 15.1 trillion packets over a 90-day period in late 2022 to gather the data. The … continue reading
The digital operations management company OpsRamp today released the findings from its study on the state of AIOps technology adoption and development. It was revealed that Built-in monitoring and native instrumentation is considered the most important feature by over half of respondents (55%). Despite 70% of MSPs and 62% of enterprises having concerns about the … continue reading
Dell launched new services and solutions to strengthen their security portfolio and to protect its customers from cyber threats and malicious attacks. The company released its Dell Technologies Managed Detection and Response Pro Plus fully managed security operations solution with capabilities that block routes to cyber-attacks and accelerate the recovery process if an attack occurs. … continue reading