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• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  AI technologies are only as good as their managers

  ESG's Jim Frey joins the podcast to discuss why developing the right tools to provide oversight and coordination across agentic and GenAI technologies will be key to network planning and performance.

• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  Google Cloud, Cloudflare struck by widespread outages

  Multiple companies investigated a widespread outage Thursday. Google Cloud later said it was due to a faulty API update and promises a full incident report of the root cause.

• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  Datadog AI agent observability, security seek to boost trust

  As AI agents mature, new tools aim to bolster their reliability and security with fresh visibility into automation workflows and more detailed troubleshooting.

• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  Cisco fortifies enterprise networking gear to support AI workloads

  The company is aiming to help enterprises bolster security and resilience as they power up compute-intensive AI workloads.

• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  Splunk partner program to integrate with Cisco 360

  Splunk's channel leader says partners can expect more opportunity than disruption as they become part of the new Cisco 360 partner program.

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• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  Cisco Isovalent Load Balancer takes aim at Broadcom's VMware

  The new product promises to simplify disparate network traffic across cloud, hybrid and on-premises workloads.

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  Cisco rolls out data center solutions to power AI

  Cisco targets the AI infrastructure market with new equipment and software, including AI agents that simplify network and security operations.

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  Cisco CEO stresses security for agentic AI

  Cisco launched a new agentic AI platform and a number of security services for enterprise and service providers customers at Cisco Live this week.

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  Cisco Live offers biggest innovation 'payload' ever

  The AI era is more reliant on the network than anything else, said CEO Chuck Robbins at Cisco Live.

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  DevOps pros eye Datadog developer portal for ITSM

  DataDog advances onto Atlassian and ServiceNow's turf with a self-service developer portal that draws on real-time data about the observed state of IT resources.

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  June Patch Tuesday resolves Windows zero-day

  Microsoft fixes 66 bugs, including an actively exploited WebDAV remote-code execution flaw, but the BadSuccessor vulnerability remains unpatched.

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  Cisco intros latest network, security innovations for AI era

  Cisco has unveiled its latest innovations aimed at helping customers navigate through the critical infrastructure needed for agentic AI.

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  StarTree branches out from DataOps into observability

  Co-founder Kishore Gopalakrishna says the IT observability market is 'ripe for disruption,' and his company is on a mission to do just that.

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  Cisco unleashes agentic AI, global partnerships for data center

  The networking company launched new tools to meet the AI needs of enterprise customers in the data center.

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  GenAI tools set to exceed past waves of AI automation

  Gartner analyst Gregg Siegfried reflects on the previous generation of AIOps tools that never quite lived up to their NoOps promise, and why GenAI might be different.

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  Rodney Clark: Cisco 360 resonating with partners

  During Cisco Live, Cisco is emphasizing the importance of partners in its value chain.

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  Cisco beefs up AI, security in new networking products

  The networking giant released a slew of products leveraging the capabilities of last year's Splunk acquisition and touting a focus on AI adoption support.

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Amazon to launch $10B data center upgrade in North Carolina

  As Amazon races to compete with Big Tech rivals for AI dominance, its Tar Heel State investment is part of a $100 billion capital expenditure effort slated for 2025.

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Meta inks 20-year nuclear deal to power data center

  The tech giant's agreement with Constellation Energy will secure an alternative source for power-hungry AI ambitions -- likely saving a once-doomed nuclear energy plant.

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  HashiCorp Terraform leads IBM, Red Hat integration roadmap

  HashiCorp and IBM have begun to knit together products such as Terraform and Ansible and divulged some roadmap details, but a few potential product overlaps are still unresolved.

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  Software supply chain security tools take on toil for users

  Recent updates from software supply chain security vendors simply take over vulnerability management on behalf of IT orgs, rather than provide facilitating tools.

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  Dell’s AI focus is real -- even if the buzz is loud, say partners

  Dell partners compare the excitement around AI to that of the cloud rush, but insist there is substance behind the hype.

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Ecosystem now central to Dell’s AI strategy

  Dell has revealed a host of new ecosystem partners — an approach it says is now central to its AI strategy.

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Dell Technologies World: Partners preparing for disaggregated data center

  While AI tops the agenda, partners see the new disaggregated infrastructure as something they can act on immediately, says Dell’s EMEA channel leader.

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Dell Technologies World: Enterprises taking their time with AI -- and AI PCs

  Dell execs talk slow AI adoption, the impact of Trump’s tariffs, and the relationship with their channel partners.

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization roadmap chases VMware

  Red Hat touted big converts to OpenShift Virtualization during Summit, but it's still working to add resiliency features VMware has had for more than a decade.

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Dell Technologies customers building real-world AI apps

  Enterprises and nonprofits at Dell Tech World 2025 are already deploying advanced AI, as Dell Technologies readies a new wave of products to meet future demand.

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Red Hat Summit 2025: Key innovations for IT channel partners

  The open-source software vendor is holding its annual event this week in Boston and, no surprise, its announcements revolve around AI.

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Red Hat, HashiCorp reveal Ansible, Terraform and Vault plans

  Red Hat Ansible and HashiCorp reps filled in the blanks about how infrastructure automation tools will more deeply integrate, news welcomed by financial services customers.

• May 21, 2025 21 May'25

  Red Hat unveils AI Inference Server in latest product expansion

  At Red Hat Summit, the company also announced new cloud partnerships and the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Dell Technologies World: Dell partners with Nvidia on AI Factory 2.0

  Dell AI Factory with Nvidia 2.0, featuring new infrastructure, enterprise AI solutions and managed services, debuts at Dell Technologies World.

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Dell makes private cloud optionality a priority

  Dell Technologies wants to enable automation and choice on its data center hardware, with third-party support for Dell NativeEdge and new software, including Dell Private Cloud.

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Dell Technologies CEO expects AI ubiquity in the enterprise

  Michael Dell says he anticipates smaller, focused AI deployments for enterprise applications, but IT experts foresee challenges in adoption and security.

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Red Hat amps up open source AI infrastructure pitch

  With a new AI Inference Server and a distributed inference open source project, Red Hat hopes to capitalize on the surging popularity of open source AI.

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Dell Technologies pitches its hardware for AI data centers

  Servers, networking and storage hardware take center stage at Dell Technologies World 2025, as well as a tightly integrated offering with AI titans such as Nvidia and Google.

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  New GitHub Copilot agent edges into DevOps

  The GitHub Copilot coding agent can take on toilsome tasks such as bug fixes and code reviews with its own GitHub Actions pull requests.

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  HPE adds Morpheus Data to KVM hypervisor for enterprises

  A KVM hypervisor by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise evolves with technology and capabilities from Morpheus Data, an HPE acquisition, as the company also releases other products.

• May 13, 2025 13 May'25

  Microsoft tackles 5 Windows zero-days on May Patch Tuesday

  The company addresses 72 unique CVEs this month, but several AI features bundled in a larger-than-usual update could bog down some networks.

• May 13, 2025 13 May'25

  Customer experience and hybrid work highlights Webex news at Cisco Live

  Cisco unveils a strong set of AI-powered features for Webex Contact Center and Webex Meetings.

• May 09, 2025 09 May'25

  ServiceNow shops share AI copilot results, prep for agents

  IT ops teams have often already laid the groundwork for generative AI automation with platform consolidation and the previous wave of AIOps tools.

• May 09, 2025 09 May'25

  Nutanix platform may benefit from VMware customer unrest

  Nutanix's Next 2025 conference attendees are jumping ship to the platform after Broadcom's VMware buy, as Nutanix executives plan enterprise-driven evolutions for the platform.

• May 09, 2025 09 May'25

  Datadog acquisition gives it feature flagging for AI

  The move enables the vendor to integrate the startup's feature flagging software into its products. It is the second acquisition the vendor has made in the past few weeks.

• May 08, 2025 08 May'25

  Nutanix CEO talks customer challenges and platform updates

  Many customers are still looking for a VMware exit and need a modernized platform, Nutanix President and CEO Rajiv Ramaswami says in this Q&A with Informa TechTarget.

• May 07, 2025 07 May'25

  ServiceNow digs deeper into data for AI with Data.world buy

  ServiceNow will fold in metadata collection and data catalog tools from the data governance specialist to fuel its agentic AI ambitions.

• May 07, 2025 07 May'25

  Nutanix expands storage, Kubernetes and AI platforms at Next

  The latest capabilities and partnerships highlighted at Nutanix's Next conference expand disaggregated storage to Pure Storage, more Kubernetes portability and new AI partnerships.

• May 06, 2025 06 May'25

  ServiceNow expands AI governance, emphasizes ROI

  Enterprises remain nervous about deploying AI agents in production, as IT vendors vie to demonstrate the value and comprehensiveness of their platforms.

• May 05, 2025 05 May'25

  'What if?' Imagining the future with generative AI tools

  According to FreedomPay's performance guru, GenAI will let IT ops pros experiment with ideas for performance optimization and disaster recovery.

• May 02, 2025 02 May'25

  Independent lab crowns new WAAP product among its leaders

  An API security specialist's newly launched WAAP product outranked more established WAF competitors during independent benchmark testing.

• April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

  UiPath AI agents blend with RPA amid industry hype, doubts

  AI agents represent a 'second act' for a vendor still best known for RPA, but it's taking a selective approach as industry doubts linger about AI costs and scalability.

• April 29, 2025 29 Apr'25

  HPE Aruba deepens network security and OpsRamp visibility

  A new 'digital circuit breaker' capability for HPE Private Clouds, increased visibility of third-party hardware with OpsRamp and new SASE capabilities arrive for HPE Aruba.

• April 29, 2025 29 Apr'25

  NetApp security updates target future quantum threats

  The latest data protection and recovery updates bring post-quantum cryptography to NetApp's block and file workloads alongside new BlueXP services.

• April 28, 2025 28 Apr'25

  Cisco AI Defense embeds with ServiceNow SecOps tools

  Cisco AI Defense will feed in data and automate AI governance in ServiceNow SecOps products as enterprises seek a platform approach to cybersecurity.

• April 28, 2025 28 Apr'25

  Cisco, former Google, Meta experts train cybersecurity LLM

  Cisco's new Foundation AI group, which includes engineers from multiple companies, has released a compact AI reasoning model based on Llama 3 for cybersecurity to open source.

• April 24, 2025 24 Apr'25

  Software supply chain security AI agents take action

  Three software supply chain security vendors join the AI agent trend that is sweeping tech, as AI-generated code threatens to overwhelm human security pros.

• April 23, 2025 23 Apr'25

  Datadog sees data observability join DevOps, adds Metaplane

  Datadog has customers already bringing data science under DevOps and, with its latest acquisition, aims to create a unified tool set for the newly converged combo.

• April 22, 2025 22 Apr'25

  Dynatrace strategist favors SLMs for AIOps

  Specialized small language models will be necessary to automate revisions to production code for incident response, according to a longtime industry expert.

• April 22, 2025 22 Apr'25

  Docker plans Model Context Protocol security boost

  Docker said it plans new tools integrating the emerging agentic AI standard protocol into existing workflows, including security controls.

• April 18, 2025 18 Apr'25

  Availity eyes GitLab Duo with Amazon Q for code refactoring

  The healthcare network's release engineering team is testing the new AI agent pairing to help with code consolidation, modernization and risk mitigation.

• April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

  Google Cloud storage offerings bolstered for AI apps

  Storage for Google Cloud now supports many features akin to AWS' catalog for AI app development, but could lead to cloud lock-in as best practices and strategies emerge.

• April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

  Red Hat CIO Marco Bill on Space Mission, AI Goals, and Tech Outlook

  In an exclusive interview, Red Hat’s CIO tells InformationWeek the company’s collaboration on a space-bound data center is no mere novelty. He also gives advice to CIOs facing budget restraints in the AI age.

• April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

  JetBrains, GitHub add coding agents to IDEs

  Coding agents that can take on whole tasks with a natural language prompt are now tied in with widely used IDEs, including a JetBrains free tier.

• April 16, 2025 16 Apr'25

  Hammerspace vacuums $100 million in Series B to gear for IPO

  The latest funding round doubles the prior Series A total with new and prior investors in Hammerspace to expand sales and marketing reach, but experts question IPO ambitions.

• April 11, 2025 11 Apr'25

  Atlassian Data Center stops multiyear license renewals

  The company confirmed that new on-premises product licenses are now limited to one year as it adds high-security cloud offerings. Users see the writing on the wall.

• April 10, 2025 10 Apr'25

  Agentspace vs. Rovo: A new battlefront in enterprise search

  Aligning DevOps and business teams using agentic AI prioritizes effective data and knowledge management and prompts fresh enterprise search offerings.

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  Exploited Windows zero-day addressed on April Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft delivers fixes for 121 vulnerabilities with 11 rated critical this month. Admins will have extra mitigation work to correct three flaws.

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  Atlassian Rovo pricing shifts amid industry AI struggles

  Atlassian's Rovo, including revamped Search and a new automation Studio, will be built into its cloud products as enterprises grapple with getting AI into production.

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  Google Gemini 2.5 Pro extends on-prem GenAI support

  Google Gemini is the first proprietary frontier model that can be run on-premises via Google Distributed Cloud for privacy- and cost-conscious enterprises.

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  Google Cloud Platform adds WAN and on-premises AI services

  A handful of infrastructure announcements for the Google Cloud Platform debut at Next 2025 including a Cloud WAN service, on-premises Gemini AI and new AI chips.

• April 08, 2025 08 Apr'25

  AI agents raise stakes in identity and access management

  IT vendors roll out fresh tools to take on identity and access management for AI agents as enterprises deploy them internally and battle malicious ones externally.

• April 08, 2025 08 Apr'25

  Dell storage lines get refresh for AI workloads

  Dell Technologies rolls out PowerEdge, ObjectScale and PowerScale hardware updates, alongside new capabilities for the PowerProtect and PowerStore software.

• April 07, 2025 07 Apr'25

  OpenTelemetry adapts to AI observability

  A core contributor and governing board member for the CNCF project reflects on how AI is changing observability, programming and business.

• April 03, 2025 03 Apr'25

  Broadcom VMware hardens vDefend, drops Tanzu branding in VCF

  The VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud platform sheds the Tanzu branding for Kubernetes and adds new capabilities to vDefend, but are prices hikes coming?

• April 02, 2025 02 Apr'25

  Nasuni taps Veracode's Sam King for storage CEO role

  Sam King, the former CEO of security vendor Veracode, is tasked with leading Nasuni's move from cloud storage to agentic AI data lakes.

• April 02, 2025 02 Apr'25

  Model Context Protocol fever spreads in cloud-native world

  The Anthropic-led spec for AI agent tool connections gains further momentum this week, with support from cloud-native infrastructure vendors such as Kubiya and Solo.io.

• March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

  Bluesky, Squarespace pros give incident, project postmortems

  Bluesky saw a massive surge in requests per second after the 2024 U.S. election, while Squarespace engineers had 10 months to migrate 9 million domains from Google.

• March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

  A visual future: GraphRAG and AI observability

  In the eyes of one CNCF leader, GNNs, knowledge graphs and GraphRAG will boost IT operations and create 3D views of apps and infrastructure.

• March 26, 2025 26 Mar'25

  Site reliability engineers weigh MLOps vs. LLMOps

  Some of the same lessons -- and unsolved problems -- from supporting machine learning apps in production carry over to generative AI apps, but not all.

• March 25, 2025 25 Mar'25

  SREs map uncharted territory with LLMOps

  Generative AI apps upend longstanding reliability engineering principles, mindsets and skill sets -- how experts weather the disruption.

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  Open source AI agent frameworks add enterprise ops polish

  Kagent and Dapr Agents offer connections to cloud-native infrastructure and microservices, taking differing stances on Microsoft's AutoGen.

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  Charity Majors on AI observability and the future of SRE

  The observability maven reflects on 'Observability 2.0' and urges site reliability engineers to embrace AI agents, despite their perceived threat -- before it's too late.

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  VMware dominance remains, despite challengers

  Customers aren't rotating off VMware by Broadcom, despite gripes on pricing and the rise of enterprise virtualization alternatives.

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Storage metadata services for AI apps trending at Nvidia GTC

  Nvidia's GTC show once again places AI applications at center stage, with storage vendors seeing their platforms' metadata capabilities as a key development component.

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Prompt engineering takes shape for devs as agentic AI dawns

  Real-world best practices are emerging at companies such as LinkedIn, Oracle and AWS, and agentic AI is poised to fundamentally alter the day-to-day work of software engineers.

• March 17, 2025 17 Mar'25

  GitHub Actions supply chain attack spotlights CI/CD risks

  Experts say a GitHub Actions vulnerability should renew enterprises' attention to securing build pipelines the same way they secure production environments.

• March 14, 2025 14 Mar'25

  Amazon exec: New AWS S3 capabilities highly adopted by users

  AWS Storage VP Andrew Warfield talks about how customers are using the latest feature launches from the Amazon S3 team as part of the vendor's Pi Day 2025 conference.

• March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

  March Patch Tuesday fixes 6 Windows zero-day exploits

  All the vulnerabilities that had been actively exploited in the wild will get resolved quickly by deploying the Windows cumulative update for this month.

• March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

  ServiceNow agentic AI acquisitions set pace for enterprises

  The combination of Moveworks and Cuein has industry analysts looking ahead to the next stage of enterprise agentic AI development and data management.

• March 10, 2025 10 Mar'25

  Analysts: IBM-LzLabs suit a cautionary tale for IT buyers

  A U.K. court ruled that an LzLabs subsidiary breached IBM license terms, a reminder to IT orgs to do careful research before choosing a vendor, according to industry watchers.

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  JFrog integrates with Hugging Face, Nvidia; intros JFrog ML

  The partnership aims to give developers a clearer guide on safe models. It also aims to ensure enterprise-grade safety and security with the deployment of open models.

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  Amazon, Google, Microsoft race for first in quantum computing

  Amazon, Google and Microsoft prioritize quantum computing reliability for future enterprise applications.

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  Storage vendors adding data management tools to meet AI needs

  Storage vendors are now developing their own tools and capabilities related to data management tasks within their platforms, as interest in enterprise AI development increases.

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  New Relic takes partnership tack for agentic AI

  New Relic users say its collaborative approach to agentic AI, revamped AIOps tools and pricing model will make it easier to explore fresh forms of automation.

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  StorOne update automates storage tiering for data access

  StorOne Data Storage Platform uses AI and ML to automate data between tiers of flash and HDD storage without the need for custom hardware or user intervention in latest release.

• February 21, 2025 21 Feb'25

  Block storage and Kafka events come to Vast Data Platform

  A new Apache Kafka API-compatible service enables customers to move their data management services closer to storage using the Vast Data Platform, which now offers block storage.

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  Zero-CVE Chainguard Images gain customization option

  Chainguard opens its container image builder factory to let users mix and match hardened container components while preserving a zero-vulnerability SLA.

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  Microsoft unveils quantum chip Majorana 1 for future advances

  Microsoft unveils Majorana 1, a quantum chip with 8 qubits, aiming for 1 million. It focuses on scalability for breakthroughs in various fields despite current challenges.

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  Users eye LaunchDarkly experiments boost with Houseware buy

  LaunchDarkly customers envision fresh opportunities for app development and business alignment with a new data warehouse option on the back end.

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  IT orgs expand business observability beyond their own walls

  Business observability could soon become a part of your IT environment, even if you're not the one who originally thought of it.

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  Cisco rides the AI boon

  Cisco reported a 9% revenue increase, driven by AI demand. The company plans to launch new AI infrastructure products, focusing on enterprise data center trends.

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  Docker Inc. CEO swap has analysts anticipating a sale

  Industry watchers see the takeover by a former Oracle exec as the precursor to merging with a broader software development portfolio at a larger company.