Realm.Security Emerges from Stealth, Raises $5M to Manage Explosion of Cyber Security Data
Realm.Security, Inc., the security fabric company purpose-built for cybersecurity, announced today that it has emerged from stealth and raised $5 million in seed funding from Accomplice and Glasswing Ventures to control the explosion of cybersecurity data inundating security teams. Founded by a team of cybersecurity veterans with decades of experience building and scaling some of … continue reading
Google Cloud adds new backup features to Backup and Disaster Recovery service
Google Cloud is improving its Backup and Disaster Recovery service with three new preview features for simplifying backup management and policies. First, backup vault provides immutable and indelible backups, meaning they are both prevented from having modifications made to them and cannot be deleted. This protects backups from being tampered with or being unintentionally deleted. … continue reading
ServiceNow’s Now Platform Xanadu release helps companies improve operational resiliency with AI
ServiceNow has released the latest version of its Now Platform, bringing improvements around operational resiliency and productivity, AI assistance, database performance, and more. The Now Platform Xanadu release introduces new automation capabilities to streamline application management, issue resolution, and operations, improving overall productivity and operational resiliency. Enterprise Architecture, which is an expansion of the company’s … continue reading
Report: AI may have benefits across enterprise, but it’s causing trouble for IT
A majority of IT leaders are worried about the cybersecurity implications brought on by the introduction of AI into their organizations. According to Flexential’s 2024 State of AI Infrastructure Report, 95% of IT leaders said that AI has made their organization more vulnerable to cyberthreats. About half of the respondents believe this is because the … continue reading
OpenObserve – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
OpenObserve, or O2, is a simplified observability platform that is designed as an easier-to-use version of tools like Elasticsearch, Splunk, or Datadog. According to the project maintainers, it is very easy to get started using O2, and it can be set up in under two minutes. It supports observability data types like logs, metrics, and … continue reading
Red Hat brings AI to hybrid cloud with RHEL AI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) is a foundation model platform for developing, testing, and running generative AI models that enterprise applications are utilizing. It comes as a single bootable image — complete with IBM’s open source Granite LLMs and the InstructLab model alignment tools — that can be easily redeployed to servers across … continue reading
Report: Most companies are now practicing proactive incident management
According to research from Atlassian, most companies are now practicing proactive incident management, meaning that they are using monitoring, alerting, and communication tools; have formal incident response training in place; and are using AI for incident trending and visibility into recent changes. When Atlassian conducted the same survey four years ago, only 35% of companies … continue reading
The importance of network observability for today’s enterprises
In today’s digital landscape, where businesses are increasingly reliant on complex and interconnected IT infrastructures, network observability has emerged as a critical component for maintaining operational efficiency and ensuring the reliability of network services. Network observability refers to the ability to gain deep insights into the state and performance of network infrastructure through monitoring and analytics/AI. … continue reading
KTE – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
KTE is an open source Kubernetes testing environment for the major cloud providers’ Kubernetes services: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). It provides a safe and controlled space for discovering issues and vulnerabilities in Kubernetes configurations before they make it to production. KTE allows for the simulation … continue reading
AWS launches managed service for setting up HPC clusters
AWS is announcing the launch of AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS), a new managed service that sets up and manages high performance computing (HPC) clusters. HPC brings together multiple computers or resources to tackle more complex or resource-intensive workloads, like computational fluid dynamics, weather modeling, finite element analysis, electronic design automation, and reservoir simulations. With … continue reading
Explore AI with intent
The artificial intelligence being used in operations already is advanced, with RPA (robotic process automation) and other rules-governed systems helping organizations become more efficient. One area that is being looked at now is generative AI. According to Josh Mayfield, senior director of product marketing at Kentik, thinks about it like this: “Like a surveyor, you’re … continue reading
The changing roles and requirements for network observability
Network engineering has transformed from a domain of granular expertise to a more systemic approach, prioritizing overall system performance and customer experiences. This has resulted in changes in how network teams are set up, with a greater emphasis on systems engineering thinking and less on component-level expertise. When enterprises today are looking for the skill … continue reading
A guide to network observability tools
The following is a listing of network observability tools, along with a brief description of their offerings. Featured Provider Kentik: The Kentik AI platform helps simplify the process of troubleshooting complex networks for engineers, operators, architects, and developers. The company this year has introduced a modern, AI-assisted Network Monitoring System (Kentik NMS), which modernizes network … continue reading
SUSE: Cloud security incidents down this year, but companies remain vigilant
Companies are experiencing fewer cloud security incidents this year than in years past, yet they still have concerns related to cloud and edge. This is according to SUSE’s latest Securing the Cloud report, which surveyed 820 IT engineers, architects, developers, security managers, and directors across the US, Germany, UK, France, and the Netherlands. According to … continue reading
