Sysdig: Attackers are moving quickly and steathily in the cloud
A targeted attack can begin within five minutes of credential discovery, and by the time another five minutes have passed, the attackers have completed their goal. This is according to Sysdig’s 2023 Global Cloud Threat report, which looked into cloud-based attacks. “Using their worldwide honeynets, the Sysdig [Threat Research Team] shed light on an alarming … continue reading
Lightbend updates developer experience for Kalix
Lightbend, a company specializing in cloud-native microservices frameworks, has introduced a new Developer Experience (DX) for their Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering called Kalix. Kalix provides a unique programming model that aims to swiftly build scalable, mission-critical, stateful applications using a serverless architecture while focusing solely on the application’s business logic. The platform works with Kubernetes-based cloud … continue reading
Three ways to avoid AI-related network performance problems
Artificial intelligence (AI) is upending almost every sector – from health care and education to manufacturing and retail. It’s even creeping into comedy. Ameca – billed as the ‘world’s most advanced humanoid robot,’ according to UK start-up Engineered Arts – recently attempted to tell a joke. The punchline is so poor that we will leave … continue reading
Dynatrace to acquire Rookout for developer-first observability
Observability platform provider Dynatrace has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Rookout, an Israeli startup that offers developer-first observability to help software engineers overcome the challenges of “shift left” and deliver reliable, quality software. Rookout’s platform enables developers to debug code in production environments, which means organizations don’t have to choose between quality and speed. … continue reading
CompTIA to add new certifications for data, cybersecurity, and cloud networking
The IT certification company CompTIA has revealed it is working on a new series of certifications around data, cybersecurity, and cloud networking. Three new certifications will be available through the CompTIA Xpert Series, and they will be released throughout 2024. The three certifications include CompTIA DataX, CompTIA CloudNetX, and CompTIA SecurityX. The DataX certification is … continue reading
Jitterbit adds a cloud-based EDI solution to its platform
Jitterbit introduced a new self-managed, cloud-based Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solution into the Jitterbit Harmony platform. This offering, known as Harmony EDI, enables users to independently handle and manage their EDI processes, allowing for a self-serve approach to EDI operations. It ensures automated data transfer between various trading partners, including major retailers like Amazon, Home … continue reading
Crossplane 1.13 released with a new feature allowing changes to be ignored
The new version of Crossplane has the ability to ignore certain changes that external systems may be making to the resources managed by Crossplane. According to the maintainers, in certain situations, it can be beneficial to delegate control of specific resource values to another system. A common example is using a cluster autoscaler that adjusts … continue reading
Optimized real-time Ubuntu is now available on Intel processors
The publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical, has unveiled the release of Real-time Ubuntu optimized for Intel Core processors. This offering allows enterprises to leverage the benefits of optimized Linux running on Intel silicon, catering to a diverse array of applications, including telco workloads, critical medical equipment, and automation systems utilized in factory settings, Canonical explained. “With … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Llama2 WebUI
With this project, users can run Llama 2 locally with gradio UI on GPU or CPU from anywhere (Linux/Windows/Mac). It supports Llama-2-7B/13B/70B with 8-bit, 4-bit. It also supports GPU inference (6 GB VRAM) and CPU inference. Llama 2 is a collection of pre-trained and fine-tuned generative text models ranging in scale from 7 billion to … continue reading
AuditBoard unveils ITRM solution to improve cyber resilience
AuditBoard unveiled its ITRM solution dedicated to IT Risk Management. This offering empowers IT security and risk management experts to efficiently handle their threat landscape, assess IT-related risks, and enhance cyber resilience. By adopting this solution, organizations can effectively adapt to the ever-changing and expanding landscape of business risks. The announcement coincides with the upcoming … continue reading
Red Hat expands capabilities of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform offerings on Microsoft Azure
Red Hat announced advancements to Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) on Microsoft Azure, such as new consumption models and clustering features. Organizations seeking to move their workloads to the cloud can now benefit from Red Hat OpenShift through JBoss EAP on Azure Red Hat OpenShift. This is a fully-managed service that is … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Crio-O
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced the graduation of the CRI-O project, which offers a reliable and high-performing implementation of the Container Runtime Interface (CRI) for the Kubelet. It also enables the orchestration of Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers in Kubernetes environments used for production purposes. This graduation signifies that CRI-O has achieved a … continue reading
Flux v2 is now generally available
Flux v2.0.0 brings several enhancements to its functionality. Firstly, the GitOps-related APIs have been upgraded to v1. Also, Flux controllers now have the ability to scale horizontally and support sharding. The Flux CLI and Flux Terraform Provider now offer stable and production-ready Git bootstrap capabilities, streamlining the process of setting up Git repositories for Flux … continue reading
Teleport Assist launches as generative AI chat interface for infrastructure management
Teleport has introduced a new offering called Teleport Assist, an AI-powered chat interface specifically designed to aid DevOps teams in swiftly and effortlessly resolving infrastructure issues by engaging in conversations with their cloud environments. With Teleport Assist, DevOps professionals can troubleshoot problems more efficiently, leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to streamline their workflows and … continue reading
