Feb. 28: IT operations tools that have added new AI capabilities
Software companies are trying to add more AI features to their platforms, and it can be hard to keep up with it all. We’ve written this roundup to share updates from notable companies that have recently enhanced their products with AI. Dynatrace introduces new AI-powered log analytics capabilities Among the features the company is adding … continue reading
ScaleOps launches solution for optimizing Kubernetes clusters
ScaleOps, a company that provides cloud resource management solutions, has announced the general availability of Pod Placement, a capability that provides ongoing optimization of Kubernetes clusters. According to the company, Kubernetes clusters often have workloads with scheduling and eviction constraints that are permanently tied to specific computing nodes, and these eviction rules can block resource … continue reading
Xurrent Acquires Zenduty, Completing the Incident Response and Remediation Loop
Xurrent, the service and operations management platform purpose-built for modern enterprises and managed services providers, has acquired Zenduty, a leader in cutting-edge incident and alert management solutions. This acquisition marks another significant milestone in Xurrent’s ongoing journey to transform IT and redefine how organizations handle major incidents from start to finish. Phil Christianson, Xurrent’s Chief … continue reading
Cribl Lakehouse makes it easier for IT teams to analyze telemetry data
Cribl is working to make it easier for IT teams to manage and analyze their telemetry data with the introduction of Cribl Lakehouse. “Lakehouse empowers organizations to unlock the full value of all their telemetry data by allowing IT and security teams to effortlessly store and analyze massive volumes of evolving telemetry data in real … continue reading
Wind River Studio Operator adds advanced automation capabilities in latest release
Wind River has announced the latest version of its private cloud infrastructure platform Wind River Studio Operator. The new release includes advanced automation capabilities, better operations at scale, and a lower total cost of ownership. Automation improvements include a 10x improvement in efficiency for day 2 operations, increased subcloud resiliency to improve error handling, and … continue reading
Edera Raises $15 Million Series A to Transform Cloud and AI Infrastructure Security
Today’s cloud infrastructure forces organizations to choose between security and efficiency. Containerized workloads share resources and kernels, creating inherent security vulnerabilities that attackers exploit through privilege escalation and lateral movement. Traditional solutions either compromise performance or require complex configuration changes, leaving platform teams frustrated and security teams alarmed. This problem is especially prevalent in AI … continue reading
Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 introduces features to meet modern virtualization needs
Red Hat has announced the release of OpenShift 4.18, which introduces several new features related to virtualization, deployment flexibility, and security. The virtualization updates are designed to improve networking, simplify storage migration, and streamline virtual machine (VM) management. User-defined networks (UDNs) are now generally available, which makes it easier for users to get virtualization running … continue reading
Juniper Networks updates routing portfolio with new capabilities to facilitate proactive troubleshooting
AIOps company Juniper Networks has announced that it is expanding its routing portfolio with new capabilities to help customers unlock the full potential of their network investments. LLM Connector, which provides support for third-party and self-hosted LLMs, can now be used to analyze network data and documentation, facilitating proactive network troubleshooting. In addition, Juniper’s AI-Native … continue reading
OpenText announces new AI-powered solution for detecting insider threats
OpenText has announced a new AI-powered threat detection capability that finds both internal and external security threats to an organization. According to OpenText, companies often focus against external threats when planning and executing their security strategy, but insider threats also remain a costly danger, whether they are intentional, accidental, or the result of stolen credentials. … continue reading
Atlassian packs latest Jira Service Management update with AI-powered capabilities
Atlassian has introduced a number of new AI-powered features to Jira Service Management, including new AI agents, an AI-powered dashboard that displays performance stats and knowledge gaps, and AI-generated summaries for employee requests. “These advancements are part of the Atlassian platform – which means you need very little time to start getting value – and … continue reading
Aryaka adds new AI-powered observability capability in latest release of SASE solution
The SASE company Aryaka today announced the launch of its winter ‘25 release, which adds AI>Observe, a new AI-powered observability capability. AI>Observe—available in early access—utilizes hundreds of machine learning models to detect and identify anomalous network behavior so that organizations can proactively address issues. Information is displayed in the MyAryaka dashboard, providing a unified location … continue reading
Catchpoint updates Internet Stack Map with capabilities to speed up incident detection
The monitoring company Catchpoint today announced an update to its Internet Stack Map, a tool that provides visibility into the Internet dependencies critical applications rely on. The new version utilizes AI to correlate customers’ test results with Catchpoint’s Global Internet Outage Detector results. This enables customers to more quickly identify root causes of an incident. … continue reading
What is instance management, and why does it matter?
When your architecture is small, it’s easy to be nimble, and platforms such as ServiceNow are great at helping organizations scale up to launch major product updates more frequently. However, the downside of this is that many companies end up with multiple instances and application owners across departments, leading to complexity that’s difficult to track … continue reading
Google begins fabrication on OpenTitan silicon
Google has announced that fabrication has begun on OpenTitan silicon, and it is being manufactured by the semiconductor manufacturer Nuvoton. OpenTitan is an open source silicon Root of Trust (RoT), a secure microcontroller. According to Google, the key to securing devices is to “start where you have certainty and build up a chain of trust.” … continue reading
