New Relic introduces new playback capability in its observability platform
New Relic has announced a new feature that will let engineers review issues through a video playback feature. New Relic Session Replay provides them with a better understanding of user interactions so they can improve their application experiences. According to data from New Relic, 41% of companies responding to its 2023 Observability Forecast survey claimed … continue reading
DigitalOcean launches managed Kafka offering
DigitalOcean has introduced DigitalOcean Managed Kafka, a fully managed data streaming platform for Apache Kafka. This service aims to assist small and medium-sized businesses in various industries, such as video streaming, IoT, data analytics, gaming, and eCommerce, by providing real-time data stream access and processing without the need for complex Kafka administration. “While Kafka is … continue reading
Supermicro releasing several new edge servers
The IT manufacturing company Supermicro has announced new servers designed for edge workloads. One of the new servers is a Supermicro X13 Edge server, called the SYS-211E-FRN13P. It is capable of meeting the demands of vRAN and private 5G environments. It comes with a 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor and Intel vRAN Boost for … continue reading
Cisco to acquire Splunk in effort to accelerate digital resilience
Cisco has announced its intention to acquire Splunk for approximately $28 billion in cash, at a rate of $157 per share. After the acquisition, Splunk’s CEO, Gary Steele, will join Cisco’s executive leadership team under the leadership of Chuck Robbins, who is currently chair and CEO of Cisco. Upon acquisition, Splunk and Cisco will be … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenTofu
The Linux Foundation has introduced OpenTofu, another open-source alternative to the Terraform infrastructure as code provisioning tool. This move was prompted by Terraform’s recent license change from MPLv2 to a Business Source License v1.1, which raised concerns in the open-source community. The switch early last month involved HashiCorp’s’ products including the infrastructure-as-code service Terraform, the … continue reading
Intel Innovation 2023: Intel Ultra Core, Intel Developer Cloud, and Project Strata
Intel Innovation 2023 took place over the past few days, resulting in several news announcements from Intel, including the latest innovations in its hardware and how it plans to incorporate AI across its ecosystem. “AI represents a generational shift, giving rise to a new era of global expansion where computing is even more foundational to … continue reading
Komprise introduces storage insights to unify data and storage management
Komprise has announced the release of Storage Insights, a solution that provides unstructured data management. It offers a unified and consistent view of data usage and storage consumption across various vendors and cloud platforms. This eliminates the need for dealing with multiple consoles and differing storage consumption definitions. The motivation behind this release is the … continue reading
Oracle is working on developing a new open standard for network and data security
At Oracle CloudWorld, Oracle announced that it is taking part in an industry effort to develop an open standard for network and data security, Zero-Trust Packet Routing (ZPR). According to Oracle, the growing complexity of IT environments have made it difficult for organizations to protect their data. Most current systems require security teams to “coordinate … continue reading
ServiceNow incorporates Now Assist AI into several of its products
ServiceNow has introduced generative AI into a number of its products across the Now Platform family: IT Service Management (ITSM), Customer Service Management (CSM), HR Service Delivery (HRSD), and Creator. Now Assist provides features like virtual agents, search capabilities, and case, incident, and agent chat summarization. Now Assist for ITSM provides summaries of incident history … continue reading
Elastic launches new solutions to help IT teams be more efficient
Elastic has announced the launch of an AI assistant for its observability offering, along with the general availability of Universal Profiling, which provides visibility into everything in cloud-native environments, including applications, services, and infrastructure. According to Elastic, the new AI assistant will enable IT teams to more quickly resolve issues. It makes use of generative … continue reading
Red Hat OpenStack and OpenShift combine into joint offering
Red Hat announced the next version of the OpenStack Platform and OpenShift service, which is being rebranded together as Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift. This release marks a tighter integration between Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack Platform, which is something the company has been working on for the past few years. According … continue reading
Linux Foundation forms new group to drive common model for developing cross-platform applications
The Linux Foundation has announced that it has formed a new cross-industry group that will focus on developing a programming model for cross-platform applications. Called the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation, this group will invite participants across the industry to collaborate on an open standard for developing applications that will work across different architectures without sacrificing … continue reading
OneTrust’s latest update helps companies govern their AI programs
The security and trust intelligence company OneTrust has announced several new updates to enable its customers to build trust, manage and mitigate risks, and ensure compliance. “With the increase of importance in first-party data and use of AI, trust has quickly become the ultimate enabler for innovation,” said Blake Brannon, chief product and strategy officer … continue reading
WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes launched to speed up the delivery of cloud native apps
WSO2 has introduced a solution called WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes (WSO2 APK) to address the challenges associated with manually configuring traditional API management solutions within Kubernetes. WSO2 APK is a comprehensive API management solution purposefully designed to harness Kubernetes’ inherent strengths. It adheres to the Kubernetes Gateway API specification and seamlessly integrates with Kubernetes … continue reading
