Contrast Security’s Northstar unifies app security for developers, security, and operations
Contrast Security has announced the launch of Northstar, a security platform update that brings developers, security, and operations teams together to address app security in a more unified way. “We’re calling this release Northstar because it points the way forward. It helps customers see what was once invisible — adding clarity where there was ambiguity, … continue reading
Opsera, Databricks expand partnership with DevOps for DataOps, Cloudera joins AI-RAN Alliance, and more: ITOps News Digest
AI-powered DevOps platform provider Opsera today announced the expansion of its Databricks partnership with the launch of its DevOps for DataOps capability, a Built on Databricks solution. Customers of Opsera and Databricks can use the solution to orchestrate end-to-end analytics and streamline delivery pipelines, the company wrote in its announcement. This is done through the … continue reading
Hope for Spring, Prepare for Frost: How to Think About AI’s Next Phase
Are we heading for another big freeze? ‘AI winter’ is a term that first emerged in the late 1970s, as disillusionment with contemporary AI projects came to a peak. Expectations were built up throughout previous decades with scientists and researchers expressing their intention to create machines that could think like humans. But eventually, the public … continue reading
AI updates in ITOps platforms announced in May 2025
IT vendors are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms to help IT operations teams be more efficient and productive. Here are several of those updates from the past month. Red Hat Summit news: RHEL 10, OpenShift Lightspeed Red Hat made several announcements at its Summit event, including the announcements … continue reading
Cisco Duo IAM launches to address identity threats
Cisco has announced a new security offering to combat identity threats, which the company says are increasing in frequency as a result of AI. The company’s 2025 Cybersecurity Readiness Index found that almost a third of companies rank identity as their top cybersecurity challenge. “The security industry is facing an ‘identity crisis’ as persistent identity-based … continue reading
DefectDojo unifies SOC and AppSec capabilities in latest platform update
DefectDojo has announced the release of new Security Operations Center (SOC) capabilities in DefectDojo Pro. According to the company, with this update, the platform now acts as a unified platform for both SOC and AppSec teams. It brings together SOC alerts and AppSec findings and has features that aim to cut down on alert noise … continue reading
Q&A: The imminent threat of quantum computing on encryption
In the latest episode of our podcast, Get With IT, we spoke with Mark Thacker, senior manager for product management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, about the threat of quantum computing on encryption. Here is an edited and abridged version of that conversation. Since we’re talking about the actual threat of quantum computers breaking very … continue reading
FinOps Foundation gains several new Premier Members
The FinOps Foundation has announced the addition of several new Premier Members, including American Express, NVIDIA, AMD, ServiceNow, and Snowflake. “American Express is a technology-powered enterprise that is focused on delivering increased scale and efficiency, improved speed to market, high quality, and security, while always keeping our customers at the center of all we do,” … continue reading
Tigera adds free tier for Calico Cloud
Tigera has announced it will be offering a free tier of Calico Cloud, its solution that provides network security and observability for Kubernetes. The free tier provides Calico Open Source users with access to advanced features for observability, policy management, microsegmentation, and network security. “We are deeply committed to delivering solutions that enable the open … continue reading
The case for CI/CD in networking
CI/CD is crucial in software development to ensure that the code is secure and well tested and it also helps with automated deployment. But, it has become very popular in the networking field as well in the last few years. Once the industry realized the importance of versioning of configs, all the network configuration were … continue reading
AWS creates new page to display information about service availability changes
AWS is making it easier for customers to stay on top of availability of AWS services with the launch of its new AWS Product Lifecycle page. The new resource provides a centralized place to see all service availability, including services that are closing access to new customers, services that have announced end of support, and … continue reading
Red Hat Summit news: RHEL 10, OpenShift Lightspeed
Red Hat today made several announcements at its Summit event, including the announcements of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 and OpenShift Lightspeed, both infused with AI to meet the demands of today’s hybrid environments and AI workloads. RHEL 10 introduces Lightspeed, which brings generative AI into the platform’s command line to help users with … continue reading
Commvault Extends Support to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Workloads for Enhanced, Cloud-Native Cyber Resilience
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, today announced it is extending its Kubernetes protection to support virtual machines (VMs) running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This new capability enhances cyber resilience for organizations moving to modern application environments. Containerized workload adoption is rapidly growing: Gartner predicts … continue reading
Sysdig donates Stratoshark to the Wireshark Foundation
Sysdig has announced that it has donated its recently created open source cloud analysis project Stratoshark to the Wireshark Foundation. Stratoshark is an evolution of the Wireshark project, an open source network analysis tool, and Falco, a cloud-native threat detection tool—both created at Sysdig. “At Sysdig, we fundamentally believe that security should be a collaborative, … continue reading
