This week's podcast is coming at you a few days early! Listen in now to hear from OpenTelemetry maintainer Austin Parker about the project's growth over the past year. www.buzzsprout.com/2114207/epis...

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America continues on in Atlanta, and during the second day of the event, a number of new announcements were made. Catch up on the highlights here ⬇️ itopstimes.com/kubernetes/k...

You've likely heard about yesterday's major AWS outage by now, and in the aftermath of the disruptions, it's a good time to better equip yourself to respond to the next major incident. www.itopstimes.com/itops/aws-ou...

Secure Code Warrior is trying to provide organizations with greater visibility and control over developers’ use of AI coding tools with the launch of its new solution, Trust Agent: AI. www.itopstimes.com/itsec/secure...

According to a new survey from Riverbed, only 12% of AI initiatives have been fully deployed and 62% are still in pilot or development stages. www.itopstimes.com/aiops/report...

Sumo Logic is launching a new AI agent for tackling security operations. Dojo AI, powered by AWS, can automate routine tasks, streamline investigations, and free up security teams to work on other tasks. www.itopstimes.com/sumo-logic/s...

Recently, at its annual user conference VMware Explore, Broadcom announced that VMware Private AI Services will become a standard component of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the company’s private cloud platform. www.itopstimes.com/cloud/vmware...

📢 New podcast! In this episode, Jenna interviews Rick Spencer, general manager of Business Critical Linux at SUSE, to talk about the state of open source enterprise Linux one year after CentOS reached EOL. www.buzzsprout.com/2114207/epis...

The latest version of Kubernetes is here, with 58 enhancements: 23 stable, 22 in beta, and 13 in alpha. www.itopstimes.com/kubernetes/k...

Modern IT infrastructure has become too complex for traditional monitoring approaches to handle effectively. To address this and reduce the demands on IT teams scrambling to respond to system alerts at inhuman hours of the day, AIOps have evolved. www.itopstimes.com/aiops/from-r...

Tigera has announced several updates to its open source container networking and security tool, Project Calico. Improvements include WAF capabilities in Calico Ingress Gateway, support for centralized log forwarding, and advanced RBAC in Calico Dashboards. www.itopstimes.com/itops/projec...

Cloudflare has added new capabilities to its zero trust platform Cloudflare One to help organizations securely adopt, build, and deploy generative AI applications. www.itopstimes.com/ai/cloudflar...

A fully featured Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution is essential for every IT infrastructure deployment. With NDR monitoring your network, you get real-time visibility into current and emerging issues. www.itopstimes.com/network/netw...

SailPoint, an enterprise identity security company, is introducing a new solution that provides continuous application discovery to uncover inventory, ownership, user activities, and risky access patterns. www.itopstimes.com/itsec/sailpo...

Groundcover today announced an observability solution specifically for monitoring LLMs and agents. It captures every interaction with LLM providers, including prompts, completions, latency, token usage, errors, and reasoning paths. www.itopstimes.com/ai/groundcov...

Most agentic AI projects will fail, and it has nothing to do with the AI technology itself, it has everything to do with the infrastructure in place. Learn what it takes to have a successful implementation from the start. www.itopstimes.com/ai/why-your-...

Grafana Labs announced a public preview of Grafana Assistant, an AI assistant that IT teams can use to interact with logs, metrics, and traces in a conversational manner. www.itopstimes.com/itops/grafan...

Palo Alto Networks is baking post-quantum security best practices into the latest release of PAN-OS, its firewall software, including support for NIST's algorithms, quantum-safe VPN tunnels and SSL/TLS sessions, and a Quantum Readiness assessment. www.itopstimes.com/itsec/palo-a...

IT leaders are confident in their asset data, but in other areas of the business, there’s a lack of trust in it. According to a new report from WanAware, 95% of IT leaders trust their asset data, compared to just 35% of other managers. www.itopstimes.com/itops/report...

Sick of outages? There's a solution. Tune in on 9/9 for a webinar where you'll learn the combination of Stratus' ztC Edge platform and a Kubernetes management solution provides a comprehensive, low-maintenance edge computing framework. Register now! assets.itopstimes.com/penguin-solu...

NVIDIA announced today that Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro will be offering NVIDIA RTX PRO servers. www.itopstimes.com/itops/nvidia...

Java management company Azul today begins offering its Managed Services Provider Program that allows MSPs to embed Azul’s Intelligence Cloud into their Java advisory, license management, security operations and DevOps services. www.itopstimes.com/runtime-secu...

The security company SpecterOps has announced the release of the latest version of its open source Attack Path Management tool BloodHound. Version 8.0 introduces BloodHound OpenGraph, which will allow companies to ingest data from more third-party systems. www.itopstimes.com/itsec/latest...

Critical vulnerabilities were exploited in some on-premises Microsoft SharePoint installations over the weekend. If you're running SharePoint servers on-premises, make sure to apply Microsoft's latest patch. www.itopstimes.com/itsec/critic...

In the face of AI, IT employees would do well to look to the past for tips on how to respond to technological disruption. No one can know precisely how AI will reshape IT roles, but we do know how similar innovations have affected IT workers in the past. www.itopstimes.com/itops/what-t...

Aqua Security is bringing together several leaders in enterprise security to develop strategies for securing AI in production. www.itopstimes.com/itsec/aqua-s... #AI #Security

A new episode of our podcast just dropped! Listen in to our conversation with Idit Levine to learn more about kagent, an open source project aiming to bring AI to cloud native. www.buzzsprout.com/2114207/epis...

If we want real isolation in multitenant environments—especially in the era of AI—we need to stop treating containers as safe by default and start rooting trust boundaries below the operating system. www.itopstimes.com/itops/contai...

Catchpoint is launching new monitoring capabilities to provide new ways for IT teams to detect and prevent AI performance issues. www.itopstimes.com/ai/catchpoin...

Broadcom is starting to ship out its latest Ethernet switch, the Tomahawk Ultra, designed for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads. www.itopstimes.com/network/broa...

SUSE has announced the release of Virtualization 1.5 Prime, featuring new capabilities that will enable organizations to optimize virtualization strategies for cloud native. www.itopstimes.com/suse/suse-vi...

Whether an organization has an embedded SRE team, a centralized model or no formal SRE function at all, AI can help teams move faster, reduce burnout and stay ahead of incidents. www.itopstimes.com/ai/the-ctos-...

In a new survey from ManageEngine, 60% of the 700 survey respondents admitted to using unapproved AI tools and 93% admitted to adding information to AI tools without approval. www.itopstimes.com/ai/report-ma...

IBM has announced the latest generation of its Power servers, featuring innovations that make them more resilient, efficient, and AI-ready. www.itopstimes.com/itops/ibm-an...

A new episode of our podcast is now available! Listen in to hear our conversation with Krishna Sai, CTO of SolarWinds, about how emerging technologies are impacting operational resilience today. www.buzzsprout.com/2114207/epis...

In honor of Ransomware Awareness Month, KnowBe4 is sharing five strategies organizations should take to avoid phishing scams. www.itopstimes.com/itsec/knowbe...

Last year, Cloudflare introduced a setting that allowed website owners to block AI crawlers. Today, the company is announcing that this setting will now be the default rather than a user needing to switch it on. www.itopstimes.com/itops/cloudf...

Want to stay on top of the latest AI news? Read our monthly roundup where we gathered all of our coverage from June. www.itopstimes.com/ai/ai-update...

Network observability goes beyond reactive fixes, enabling proactive performance optimization, SLA compliance, and premium service offerings. Discover why observability isn’t just an IT tool—it’s a growth strategy. www.itopstimes.com/softwaredev/...

During its annual conference, #CiscoLive, Cisco announced several new offerings and partnerships that support its transition from traditional to AI-ready data centers. www.itopstimes.com/itops/cisco-...

Contrast Security has announced the launch of Northstar, a security platform update that brings developers, security, and operations teams together to address app security in a more unified way. www.itopstimes.com/itsec/contra...

IT vendors are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms to help IT operations teams be more efficient and productive. Here are several of those updates from the past month. www.itopstimes.com/ai/ai-update...

Cisco has announced a new security offering to combat identity threats, which the company says are increasing in frequency as a result of AI. www.itopstimes.com/softwaredev/...

According to the company, with this update, the platform now brings together SOC alerts and AppSec findings and has features that aim to cut down on alert noise and help with prioritization. www.itopstimes.com/itsec/defect...

In the latest episode of our podcast, Get With IT, we spoke with Mark Thacker, senior manager for product management for RHEL about the threat of quantum computing on encryption. If you prefer reading to listening, check out the transcript here! www.itopstimes.com/itsec/qa-the...

The FinOps Foundation has announced the addition of several new Premier Members, including American Express, NVIDIA, AMD, ServiceNow, and Snowflake. www.itopstimes.com/itops/finops...

Tigera has announced it will be offering a free tier of Calico Cloud, its solution that provides network security and observability for Kubernetes. www.itopstimes.com/itops/tigera...

AWS is making it easier for customers to stay on top of availability of AWS services with a new resource that displays all service availability, including services that are closing access to new customers and services that have announced/reached end of support. www.itopstimes.com/itops/aws-cr...

Red Hat today made several announcements at its Summit event, including the announcements of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 and OpenShift Lightspeed, both infused with AI to meet the demands of today’s hybrid environments and AI workloads. www.itopstimes.com/ai/red-hat-s...

Sysdig has announced that it has donated its recently created open source cloud analysis project Stratoshark to the Wireshark Foundation. www.itopstimes.com/itops/sysdig...