Topic: data
Cribl announces AI copilot to deliver insights from IT data
Cribl, which is a data management platform for IT teams, has announced a new AI copilot to further help customers manage growing amounts of data. Cribl Copilot can generate insights, dashboards, and notifications from the company’s data, as well as answer questions about that data. According to the company, the goal of this new AI … continue reading
Polaris Catalog – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
The Polaris Catalog is an open source catalog for Apache Iceberg that was recently announced by Snowflake at its user conference, Snowflake Summit, earlier this week. While not technically fully available yet, the company says the catalog will be open sourced within the next 90 days. Apache Iceberg is a format for big data analytics, … continue reading
Protocol Buffers – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Protocol Buffers (also sometimes referred to as protobuf) is a cross-platform mechanism for serializing structured data. Its documentation compares it to formats like XML or JSON, but smaller, faster, and simpler. “You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read … continue reading
Hitachi Vantara adds block storage in latest release of its data platform
Hitachi Vantara has just unveiled new features across its hybrid cloud data platform, Virtual Storage Platform One. The main highlight of this release is the addition of block storage, which is a data storage technique where data is divided into blocks for easier and more efficient retrieval. According to Hitachi Vantara, using block storage can … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Vineyard
Vineyard is an in-memory data manager designed specifically for data-heavy analytics. It uses shared memory to efficiently share data across different systems without needing to do serialization and deserialization. It employs a zero-copy method for sharing, which helps to avoid I/O overhead costs. According to the project maintainers, Vineyard is ideal for complex cloud-native environments, … continue reading
Kyndryl and Cloudflare partner to accelerate Zero Trust Security
Kyndryl and Cloudflare have announced an expansion of their partnership aimed at enabling enterprises to migrate and manage networks for multi-cloud connectivity and comprehensive network security. This partnership leverages Kyndryl’s consulting services and expertise in enterprise networking, security, and resiliency, alongside Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud that integrates security, performance, and cloud flexibility. Initially partnering in May … continue reading
MinIO launches new features for scaling up infrastructure to support AI workloads
MinIO announced the MinIO Enterprise Object Store, a new product that enables the creation and management of exabyte-scale data infrastructure for commercial customers. The MinIO Enterprise Object Store is expressly designed for the performance and scale challenges introduced by massive AI workloads. It’s available to new and existing MinIO customers and carries a commercial license. … continue reading
Pure Storage announces new self-service storage management
Pure Storage announced new self-service features for its Pure1 storage management platform and Evergreen portfolio. These enhancements are part of the company’s ongoing effort to offer valuable, software-based solutions through a unified platform experience to its global customer base. This strategic shift underscores Pure Storage’s commitment to adapting to the changing needs of modern enterprises, … continue reading
Sumo Logic announces new pricing model
Sumo Logic has unveiled Sumo Logic Flex Licensing, a log analytics pricing plan that provides free, unlimited log data ingest, enabling developer, security, and operations teams to collect and analyze crucial data throughout their enterprise. This pricing strategy eliminates a typical cost obstacle for analytics, enabling customers to leverage their increasing data volumes fully. The … continue reading
IBM unveils LinuxONE 4 Express
IBM has introduced the IBM LinuxONE 4 Express, a new pre-configured rack mount system tailored to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well as new data center environments. This system is designed to deliver the latest performance, security, and AI capabilities of the LinuxONE platform, providing cost savings and simplifying the … continue reading
Google Cloud waives all “exit fees” globally
Google Cloud has implemented a policy to enable easier data migration for customers wishing to transfer their data from Google Cloud to other providers or on-premises systems. This policy removes network data transfer fees, making it more accessible for customers to switch cloud services globally. However, Google Cloud points out that this new policy doesn’t … continue reading
Report: Automation issues drive breaches in SLAs
Ninety percent of participants in Broadcom’s recent research survey acknowledged that issues in automation are directly contributing to breaches in Service Level Agreements (SLAs). These breaches are not just isolated incidents but a recurring theme that is impacting businesses significantly. On top of that, 61% report SLA breaches monthly or more frequently. The direct consequences … continue reading
