New Relic Unveils Industry’s First Intelligent Observability Platform
New Relic unveiled the New Relic Intelligent Observability Platform, transforming observability from ensuring uptime and reliability into a key driver of business growth and developer velocity for enterprises worldwide. The platform is strengthened by the New Relic AI Engine to predict and prevent issues, and streamline business and IT operations with automation. With new innovations like … continue reading
Report: The challenges of Infrastructure as Code
Usage of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is prevalent, but like with any technology, the pros aren’t without cons. IaC has the potential to improve reliability, security, and development velocity, but in reality, developers are running into some issues using this practice. Insights into some of these challenges were revealed in new research called Stacked Up: … continue reading
Edera launches open source OpenPaX patch to improve memory safety in Linux
Container security company Edera is working to improve application-level memory safety in Linux with the release of OpenPaX, an open source kernel patch that mitigates common memory safety errors. It was initially created to benefit Edera’s own customers, but the company decided to open source it to make it available to the broader community. The … continue reading
Cloud Canaries enables companies to enhance their current observability platforms with OpenTelemetry
The observability company Cloud Canaries has announced the launch of Observability Canaries, enabling teams to enhance their existing observability tools with OpenTelemetry. By integrating observability tools with OpenTelemetry, teams get access to a “readily available, additional data source for model creation, alarming, forecast generation and validation,” Cloud Canaries wrote in its announcement. According to the … continue reading
Kentik offers free Cloud Latency Map to provide insights into cloud latency around the world
Network observability platform Kentik today released Cloud Latency Map, a free tool that provides insights into latency in over 100 different cloud regions around the world. According to Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik and the creator of the Cloud Latency Map, this new tool can help IT teams determine if a connectivity … continue reading
Lenovo and Cisco partner to provide enterprise solutions for workplace collaboration, AI
Earlier this year, Lenovo and Cisco announced that they were collaborating to bring their customers workplace solutions that incorporate generative AI and improve enterprise productivity. Now, the two companies are revealing several new offerings that have come about through this partnership. First, they announced TruScale Meeting Room as a Service (TS MRaaS), which is a … continue reading
Better together: How to break down persistent IT and security silos
More streamlined IT and security collaboration is something the industry has been moving toward for the better part of the past decade, but thanks to some recent changes in organizational reporting structures (i.e., the CIO emerging as the de facto leader for IT and cybersecurity) and a convergence of in-demand IT/security skills, the relationship between … continue reading
Is ITSM empowering your employees, or getting in their way?
There are plenty of great things about working in ITSM — for example, working closely with end users, making their lives easier and solving problems. But we’d be lying if we said it was always “smooth sailing.” Working in ITSM can be very challenging, as these professionals deal with everything from security scares, to highly … continue reading
Gartner predicts a 9.3% increase in IT spending in 2025
Gartner is predicting that IT spending will continue to grow in 2025. Specifically, they predict a 9.3% increase from this year, with the total spending equaling $5.74 trillion. Generative AI investments are driving data center spending, which grew by 34.7% in 2024, and represented the biggest increase of the various IT spending categories. Gartner doesn’t … continue reading
Report: IT outages cost $1.9 million per hour on average
The average cost of IT outages has increased to $1.9 million per hour, with the median downtime for a high-impact outage being 77 hours. This is according to observability company New Relic’s newly released 2024 Observability Forecast, which surveyed 1,700 IT professionals from 16 countries. Just a decade ago, Gartner reported that the average cost … continue reading
Vultr unveils advanced serverless capabilities for agentic AI for the enterprise
Vultr, the world’s largest privately held cloud computing platform, today announced a significant expansion to its Vultr Serverless Inference platform, providing organizations with the essential infrastructure needed for agentic AI. Building upon its initial launch earlier this year, these powerful new capabilities empower businesses to autoscale models and leverage Turnkey Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), to deliver model inference … continue reading
Resourcely reinvents infrastructure DevOps with configuration platform for scaling HashiCorp’s Terraform and OpenTofu and launches new free tier
Resourcely, the configuration platform company, today announced that it has released a free tier of its tool for configuring and deploying cloud resources. Resourcely, with its novel approach to infrastructure configuration, lets organizations shift left safely while governing their cloud infrastructure using their existing tools. Developers get a simplified experience for configuring Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) while … continue reading
RHEL AI 1.2 adds support for new hardware accelerators from Lenovo and AMD
Red Hat has announced the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), its platform for developing, testing, and running LLMs. “Building on the success of our initial release of RHEL AI 1.1 on September 5, 2024, this version furthers our commitment to empowering developers, AI engineers and data scientists by lowering the … continue reading
FIDO Alliance’s newest specifications for passkeys enable better user choice and flexibility in credential managers
The driving force behind passkeys, the FIDO Alliance, is working to make passkeys even easier to adopt by publishing new working drafts of specifications for secure credential exchange, a format for transferring different types of credentials in a credential manager. Passkeys have significant momentum at this moment of time, with over 12 billion online accounts … continue reading
