Kubernetes v1.31 released; 11 new features now in GA
Some 11 features have graduated to stable in today’s release of Kubernetes v1.31, the first since the project celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. The release’s theme, here in the dog days of summer, is Elli, a playful pup meant to reflect the spirit and joy of the community of contributors. Among the highlights of … continue reading
Rafay Systems’ Cost Optimization Suite lowers cloud costs by analyzing resource usage to make changes
Rafay Systems has announced its new Cost Optimization Suite to help users lower their cloud computing and Kubernetes costs. The platform does this by continuously analyzing resource usage and reallocating or cleaning up resources as necessary based on policy-driven controls. For instance, users can set time-to-live limits for short term needs, so that resources are … continue reading
The C-suite conundrum: Are senior executives the Achilles’ heel of cybersecurity?
In today’s digital landscape, an organization’s C-suite and senior executives hold the most valuable corporate data and sign-off authorities, representing the highest potential risk over email. Whether it’s inbound spear phishing attacks or outbound mistakes resulting in a damaging data breach, the C-suite is vulnerable. But what do cybercriminals want from these individuals? Are breaches … continue reading
Who’s going to pay for AI?
Enterprise AI is a broad topic, ranging from predictive analytics to generative AI, robotics, image recognition, natural language processing (NLP), chatbots and machine learning-based applications that perform complex tasks more efficiently and accurately than humans. Think AI on the manufacturing line to predict and prevent machine failures. Or AI in a nursing home to alert … continue reading
Infisical – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Infisical is an open source secrets management platform that allows teams to securely store things like API keys, database credentials, and 150+ other secret types. These secrets can then be synced across teams and infrastructure. It has a web interface for managing secrets across different projects, and a custom CLI that can be used to … continue reading
Q&A: Measuring the impact of cloud computing on carbon footprints
Technology is a huge contributor to carbon emissions, and it’s only going to get worse as we run more and more things with higher demands — like AI workloads. By understanding what your IT’s actual environmental impact is, you can make changes to lessen that impact, and at the same time, lower costs. In the … continue reading
SentinelOne and Google Cloud announce expanded security partnership
SentinelOne and Google Cloud are partnering up to provide customers with better capabilities for securing their environments. SentinelOne’s AI-driven endpoint protection capabilities will be combined with Google Cloud’s threat intelligence and related services. They will jointly share telemetry data with each other, and SentinelOne will use Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash to further enhance … continue reading
Sysdig Cloud Identity Insights automatically detects compromised user accounts
Sysdig has launched a new solution, Cloud Identity Insights, that will make it easier for companies to detect compromised identities so they can act faster to contain problems. The company explained that according to a report from Verizon, almost 40% of data breaches are the result of compromised accounts. Therefore, suspicious user activity is often … continue reading
Apiiro shifts risk detection to the design phase with new feature
The ASPM company Apiiro today announced a new feature that shifts risk detection further left, all the way to the design phase. Rather than waiting for development to start to find risks, the new Risk Detection at the Design Phase feature uses AI to analyze feature designs for risk. This includes things related to: Generative … continue reading
Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed brings generative AI help to the platform
Using Red Hat OpenShift is about to get easier, because Red Hat is launching the developer preview of OpenShift Lightspeed, a generative AI assistant for the platform. Lightspeed can answer users’ questions about OpenShift, assist with troubleshooting, and can offer insights on building, deploying, and managing hybrid cloud applications. For instance, a user could ask … continue reading
Azure Managed DevOps Pools help teams quickly spin up managed infrastructure
Microsoft has announced a public preview of Managed DevOps Pools in Azure, which allow teams to quickly spin up custom DevOps pools as needed. “Engineering teams ideally want to spend all their time writing code to create applications and services for their users! In reality, many end up spending a significant portion of their time … continue reading
Q&A: The disconnect between the C-Suite and IT practitioners on AI readiness
Tech leaders are eager to reap the benefits of generative AI, but are they really production ready and able to be used in a secure way yet? According to Randall Degges, head of developer relations and community at Snyk, no. He joined us on the most recent episode of our weekly podcast, Get With IT, … continue reading
Telemetry pipelines: The critical missing link in modern application monitoring and performance management
When it comes to telemetry data – meaning the logs, metrics, traces and other information engineers use to monitor applications, manage performance and troubleshoot outages– more is usually better. But there’s a big caveat: If you fail to manage telemetry data effectively, the data can quickly create more problems than it solves, leading to problems … continue reading
Cloudforet – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Cloudforet is an open-source project hosted by the Linux Foundation that provides a single platform for managing cloud resources from different providers. By having everything accessible from one platform, IT admins can quickly search cloud resources and analyze them. They also get better visibility into costs because billing data is also included and there are … continue reading
