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• October 21, 2024 21 Oct'24

  Security observability, AI require data hygiene in DevSecOps

  Sound data management is the heart of observability for security, which guides DevSecOps practices and determines the usefulness of AI apps, New Relic CISO says.

• October 21, 2024 21 Oct'24

  AI agents a new focus for backup and storage vendors

  The next big generative AI gambit for enterprise IT vendors lies in AI agents, which storage and data protection vendors see as an opportunity to offer new services.

• October 17, 2024 17 Oct'24

  HashiCorp Vault scalability updates target big enterprises

  HashiCorp Vault 1.18 updates make it more suited to large companies, which the vendor is courting with a lighter cloud migration push than with Terraform.

• October 17, 2024 17 Oct'24

  Western Digital begins to ship 32 TB HDDs

  WD has jumped up to higher densities in its HDD line, shipping 32 TB SMR and 26 TB CMR drives as drop-in replacements to bring higher capacities to clouds and OEMs.

• October 17, 2024 17 Oct'24

  HashiCorp CTO talks AI strategy, Ansible tie-ins, FedRAMP

  In a Q&A to wrap up HashiConf, the company's co-founder and CTO gave his outlook on HashiCorp's approach to AI, configuration management and cloud compliance.

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• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  Intel, AMD form x86 group in effort to combat Arm

  Intel and AMD are joining forces to retain market share and create seamless interoperability across hardware and software platforms.

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  Terraform Stacks, HCP Waypoint prompt migration questions

  HashiCorp fends off challengers that sell ease of use with fresh infrastructure-as-code abstraction, while Terraform users grapple with a potential move to cloud-first services.

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  Broadcom, AT&T explore settling VMware pricing dispute

  The two companies could settle a lawsuit related to a two-year extension for VMware support services. AT&T filed its complaint in August claiming breach of contract.

• October 11, 2024 11 Oct'24

  SecOps from the IT infrastructure operations perspective

  The CrowdStrike outage capped a decade of deepening divide between SecOps and the rest of IT ops -- and should bring about its end, according to one industry veteran.

• October 11, 2024 11 Oct'24

  Buildkite: CI/CD pipelines still a job for app developers

  In an era of platform engineering, Buildkite and its high-scale users maintain that CI/CD pipelines and testing should remain the purview of app developer teams.

• October 10, 2024 10 Oct'24

  Data center providers design for severe weather surge

  Data center providers are investing in resilient infrastructure and redundant power to prevent extreme weather-related outages that can cause serious financial loss to customers.

• October 10, 2024 10 Oct'24

  Dell expands AI Factory with new AMD servers

  Dell adds to its AI Factory, extending its services and hardware to cover new AMD-based servers in its push to provide ways to run AI workloads on premises.

• October 09, 2024 09 Oct'24

  Atlassian 'cloud-first' becomes 'enterprise-first'

  Atlassian's tune has changed in the past few months, as the company builds bridges to Data Center products and works on FedRAMP cloud compliance.

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  Microsoft repairs 2 zero-days on October Patch Tuesday

  Administrators will have to tackle 117 new vulnerabilities, including three rated critical, in this month's batch of security updates.

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Microsoft security overhaul offers blueprint for SecOps

  Better late than never: Microsoft lags major cloud competitors in making security a top priority. But other enterprises might learn from how the company is catching up.

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  Vast Data unveils Cosmos in a push to advance enterprise AI

  Vast Data held its Cosmos event, which helped solidify the direction the company is headed and highlighted its community to support AI in the enterprise.

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Vast unveils InsightEngine, a move to support enterprise AI

  Vast released InsightEngine to bring real-time retrieval-augmented generation into its data platform as it prepares for growing enterprise adoption of AI.

• September 27, 2024 27 Sep'24

  HPE Aruba, Arista update network management consoles

  Arista highlights its consolidation of network management tools within CloudVision, while HPE extends Aruba Central to include Cisco and other third-party network devices.

• September 26, 2024 26 Sep'24

  Fresh crop of startups takes on infrastructure-as-code toil

  Emerging vendors, including a new venture from the founder of Chef, set out to put a fresh face on IT infrastructure automation for the platform engineering era.

• September 26, 2024 26 Sep'24

  The double-edged swords of cloud security and AI

  DevSecOps expert Kyler Middleton examines the ways modern technologies such as cloud computing and AI both enable and complicate the future of SecOps.

• September 25, 2024 25 Sep'24

  Harness DevOps tools add database, QA automation, AI agents

  With a series of updates this week, Harness claims unique support for database DevOps, as well as pipeline generation and UI test automation using AI agents.

• September 25, 2024 25 Sep'24

  Broadcom: AT&T is trying to 'rewind the clock' on VMware

  A newly filed memorandum from Broadcom points to an 'unambiguous 'End of Availability' provision' as rationale for why a court should deny AT&T's request for injunctive relief.

• September 25, 2024 25 Sep'24

  Will Windows Server 2025 spark VMware migrations?

  Can Microsoft capitalize on VMware customer concerns by touting enhancements to its next version of Windows Server along with its cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure options?

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  NetApp sees data management as its future

  A shared metadata namespace searchable through BlueXP and a disaggregated storage architecture for faster generative AI data ingestion will kickstart NetApp's shift into new markets.

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  U.S. Army, Lockheed Martin detail SBOM progress

  Despite muddied regulatory waters and industry angst over technical stumbling blocks, enterprises are forging ahead with SBOMs, according to presenters at a recent CISA event.

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  NetApp integrates security, adds hardware for GenAI future

  NetApp executives see a disaggregated future for its storage hardware and software into data management, but industry analysts question how storage admins will handle these duties.

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  Pure Storage's new file service looks to clean up legacy mess

  Pure Storage's Real-Time Enterprise file service gives a simplified look into file data across the enterprise. It's also offering a VM assessment tool and universal credits program.

• September 20, 2024 20 Sep'24

  VMware platform an investment in users, Broadcom CEO says

  Hock Tan underscored the importance of customers at the Boston VMware User Group UserCon, but users remain uneasy about the recent changes ushered in by VMware's new parent company.

• September 19, 2024 19 Sep'24

  Platform engineers embrace secrets management tool

  Pulumi's ESC, now GA, filled an automation gap in multi-cloud identity and permissions management for platform engineers well-versed in general-purpose programming languages.

• September 19, 2024 19 Sep'24

  SecOps' new frontier in the remote work era: HR

  A CISO shares the story of how his SOC staff caught and contained a North Korean agent posing as a software engineer, saying he hopes to raise awareness of a growing threat.

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  AI model training drives up demand for high-bandwidth memory

  Developed over a decade ago, high-bandwidth memory is experiencing a sharp uptick in popularity due to the demand for high-end GPUs from chipmakers like Nvidia.

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  Intel gets boost from AWS, government contracts

  Intel's turnaround efforts are progressing, but the chipmaker will need more than government funding and a deal that expands its AWS manufacturing partnership, an analyst said.

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  Panzura unveils first offering after Moonwalk acquisition

  After acquiring data management vendor Moonwalk in July, Panzura is debuting its next verse with the release of Panzura Symphony, a data orchestration service.

• September 13, 2024 13 Sep'24

  Oracle users share challenges, successes with cloud, AI

  At Oracle CloudWorld, companies ranging from banks to candy makers shared the challenges and benefits of using Oracle cloud software and AI in enterprise environments.

• September 13, 2024 13 Sep'24

  Lenovo adds GPUaaS for on-premises AI workloads

  Lenovo adds to its AI portfolio with a new GPU-as-a-service offering, a move that challenges Dell and HPE. It also adds predictive analytics to its management offering.

• September 12, 2024 12 Sep'24

  Docker pricing changes hike mid-tier costs

  Docker adds features but raises Pro and Team prices and adds consumption-based Docker Hub pricing for container image pulls and storage.

• September 12, 2024 12 Sep'24

  AT&T sues Broadcom over VMware support licensing

  AT&T claims its negotiated contract with VMware pre-Broadcom acquisition is not being honored, casting light on recent product and purchasing changes Broadcom has instituted.

• September 12, 2024 12 Sep'24

  CTO challenges software security status quo

  A former U.S. Department of Homeland Security researcher argues that software is fundamentally broken from a security perspective. So, where does the industry go from here?

• September 11, 2024 11 Sep'24

  Arcitecta Mediaflux goes multi-site, to the edge and bursts

  Arcitecta has partnered with Dell to increase data transfer speeds across geographies, at the edge and during hours when compute resources are in demand.

• September 10, 2024 10 Sep'24

  Four zero-days fixed for September Patch Tuesday

  Most corrections this month focus on the Windows OS, but enterprises that rely on SQL Server or SharePoint should prioritize deploying the security updates for those platforms.

• September 10, 2024 10 Sep'24

  JFrog connects key software supply chain management dots

  JFrog ties in with GitHub and Nvidia and ships Runtime Security to offer visibility into software supply chains from source code to production and back again, including AI apps.

• September 10, 2024 10 Sep'24

  AWS joins Microsoft, Google Cloud in offering Oracle database

  AWS joined Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in offering the Oracle Database, an indication that enterprises want to use Oracle alongside the cloud providers' AI services.

• September 09, 2024 09 Sep'24

  OpenTofu, OpenBao reach milestones post-HashiCorp BSL

  OpenTofu capped a year since launch with a new registry UI and API, while OpenBao reached GA, but open source forks didn't keep HashiCorp from beating growth estimates.

• September 09, 2024 09 Sep'24

  An expert's big-picture view of the state of SecOps

  In this first episode of 'IT Ops Query' Season 2, a SANS institute instructor and 20-year cybersecurity veteran assesses the past, present and future of SecOps.

• September 05, 2024 05 Sep'24

  IT vendors still search for open source license sweet spot

  Elastic returns Elasticsearch and Kibana to open source licenses while Sentry floats Fair Source, as balancing business and community success remains a work in progress.

• September 04, 2024 04 Sep'24

  VMware bundles vSAN, but keeps third-party storage support

  The forthcoming VCF 9 update will expand vVols technology to Broadcom's VMware private cloud platform, enabling enterprises to integrate VCF into existing storage architecture.

• August 29, 2024 29 Aug'24

  Hammerspace-Arrow appliances eye AI market

  Hammerspace is prepacking its Global Data Platform software onto Arrow Electronics hardware, offering appliances to customers for easier deployment.

• August 29, 2024 29 Aug'24

  Hock Tan locks in VMware's private cloud future

  The Broadcom CEO says public cloud migration trauma can be cured by private cloud services like those from VMware, but VMware Explore attendees aren't fully sold on the idea.

• August 27, 2024 27 Aug'24

  VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN gets satellite support

  Satellite connectivity lets Broadcom offer the VeloCloud SD-WAN as an option for linking IoT devices to the global network from environments without reliable internet access.

• August 27, 2024 27 Aug'24

  VMware VCF expands onramp to Broadcom's private cloud future

  New capabilities for VMware VCF can import and manage existing VMware services through a single console interface for a private cloud experience under Broadcom's supervision.

• August 27, 2024 27 Aug'24

  VMware Tanzu hones integration, but faces Broadcom backlash

  VMware Tanzu now offers a single UI for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes, a feature years in the making, but the improvement could get lost in post-Broadcom drama.

• August 26, 2024 26 Aug'24

  Western Digital split could benefit HDD, flash storage users

  Though the storage market won't be massively changed by the split of Western Digital, it could benefit customers of each new company.

• August 20, 2024 20 Aug'24

  AMD acquires ZT Systems for $5B to take on Nvidia in AI race

  AMD plans to acquire AI systems designer and manufacturer ZT Systems for $5 billion. AMD CEO Lisa Su said hyperscalers want more than just chips when developing AI applications.

• August 16, 2024 16 Aug'24

  HPE acquires Morpheus Data, bolstering hybrid cloud offering

  HPE is buying Morpheus Data, its second hybrid cloud management acquisition for GreenLake in less than two years following the purchase of OpsRamp.

• August 15, 2024 15 Aug'24

  Broadcom axes VMware education licensing options for schools

  Broadcom shutters the VMware IT Academy and Academic Software Licensing programs on Aug. 15, leaving universities and trade schools in the lurch.

• August 15, 2024 15 Aug'24

  Cisco cuts workforce for third time in 2 years, pursues AI

  Cisco cuts its workforce by 7% and forms one unit for networking, security and collaboration to energize AI and security sales. It's the third round of layoffs since 2022.

• August 14, 2024 14 Aug'24

  Memory and storage experts share highlights from FMS 2024

  Industry experts look back on the expanded FMS 2024, weighing in on the big takeaways and what discussions say about the future of the storage and memory markets.

• August 14, 2024 14 Aug'24

  Microsoft corrects six zero-days for August Patch Tuesday

  Admins can address most of the zero-days with a cumulative update. But of more concern is the lack of patches for two vulnerabilities demonstrated at the Black Hat conference.

• August 13, 2024 13 Aug'24

  Nutanix to enable software-defined storage on Dell PowerFlex

  Nutanix and Dell are expanding their partnership with a new appliance out now and a new HCI model that melds Dell PowerFlex with the Nutanix Cloud Platform out in 2025.

• August 09, 2024 09 Aug'24

  NetApp additions aim to ease migrations and hybrid cloud

  The latest NetApp capabilities enable hybrid cloud functionality and expand migration options, important features as customer look to avoid lock-in.

• August 08, 2024 08 Aug'24

  Endor Labs ships Java 'Magic Patches' with SCA tools

  Upgrade impact analysis and backported fixes will help one enterprise customer make a major Java upgrade manageable and keep compliant with FedRAMP.

• August 08, 2024 08 Aug'24

  Sysdig Sage early adopters kick the tires on CNAPP AI agents

  AI agents in Sysdig Sage add more sophisticated multi-step reasoning than is available with generic LLMs. But it's meant to assist humans, not replace them.

• August 07, 2024 07 Aug'24

  CloudBees buys co-founder's AI test automation tools startup

  Jenkins creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi rejoins CloudBees as co-CEO of Launchable, which aims to stem the tide of AI-generated code with AI-driven test optimization.

• August 06, 2024 06 Aug'24

  Kioxia wins lifetime achievement for 3D NAND amid IPO plans

  The flash storage industry wouldn't be where it is today without 3D NAND. To celebrate its invention, Kioxia is receiving a Future of Memory and Storage Lifetime Achievement Award.

• August 05, 2024 05 Aug'24

  DevOps platform aids app modernization, sets stage for AI

  Amid a company rebranding and product consolidation, IT ops teams at Rival HR paved a path for DevOps velocity and AI-based automation with updates to legacy infrastructure.

• August 02, 2024 02 Aug'24

  AWS CodeCommit, Cloud9 closure communication critiqued

  AWS CodeCommit gives up the Git ghost to competitors, while a lack of advance notice to users has some IT pros questioning the future of other services.

• August 02, 2024 02 Aug'24

  Major changes could reshape the NAND flash market

  The last few years have seen NAND prices crater before rebounding. The next few years may see the major players in the market go public, split or merge.

• August 02, 2024 02 Aug'24

  Intel's weak position in AI chip market leads to mass layoff

  Intel's failure to profit from the red-hot AI market is behind plans to cut 15,000 jobs. The workforce reduction is part of a $10 billion cut in capital expenses in 2025.

• July 30, 2024 30 Jul'24

  Court reverses Appian's $2B espionage win against Pegasystems

  Two years ago, Appian was awarded damages in its lawsuit against Pegasystems, which it accused of spying. A court of appeals has reversed that decision.

• July 30, 2024 30 Jul'24

  Is open source a tragedy of the commons? It's complicated

  In the season finale of the 'IT Ops Query' podcast, Pantheon's Josh Koenig and David Strauss explain why it's difficult to label open source a tragedy of the commons.

• July 30, 2024 30 Jul'24

  Microsoft, SecOps pros weigh kernel access post-CrowdStrike

  Microsoft will explore alternatives to direct kernel access for partners following the CrowdStrike outage. But some IT pros worry that change could do more harm than good.

• July 26, 2024 26 Jul'24

  CrowdStrike outage underscores software testing dilemmas

  Experts say efforts to avoid incidents such as last week's CrowdStrike outage will face time-honored tradeoffs between velocity, stability, access and security.

• July 25, 2024 25 Jul'24

  Micron brings its first PCIe 5.0 SSD to market with 9550

  A late entry to the PCIe 5.0 SSD market, the Micron 9550 intends to set itself apart from the veterans in the Gen 5 arena, including Kioxia and Samsung.

• July 23, 2024 23 Jul'24

  GitLab users cautiously optimistic on Datadog DevSecOps deal

  Datadog is reportedly a suitor for GitLab; existing users understand the rationale for such a deal, but key questions must be answered before they'd adopt deeper integrations.

• July 18, 2024 18 Jul'24

  Aviatrix CEO pitches cloud networking to 'underserved buyer'

  Doug Merritt has been in the multi-cloud networking business for a year, but still draws on his experience as CEO of Splunk to steer Aviatrix toward a new phase of growth.

• July 18, 2024 18 Jul'24

  With Project Lightning, Dell to strike out in new directions

  Dell's Project Lightning is a parallel file system that will be tied to the vendor's AI Factory portfolio, but the promise of new hardware could also mean entry into new markets.

• July 18, 2024 18 Jul'24

  Cerabyte brings permanent storage to the U.S.

  Cerabyte increased its footprint in the U.S. with two new offices as it looks to go beyond the prototype stage for a potential commercialization in the coming years.

• July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

  AI gateways emerge in response to governance concerns

  Enterprise IT investment is pouring into AI, but security and governance remain major stumbling blocks to production. Enter API gateway vendors eager to assist -- and cash in.

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  JetCool CEO on liquid cooling and the modern data center

  In this Q&A, JetCool's CEO talks about the growing interest in liquid cooling and how it's being used to divert heat away from compute so that bigger workloads can run consistently.

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  IT ops pros grapple with glut of AI assistants

  After nearly two years of hype, it's still early for enterprise GenAI. That said, skepticism -- and outright pessimism -- have begun to emerge about AI assistants for IT automation.

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Storj buys Valdi for cloud compute to bolster storage offers

  The acquisition brings Storj's distributed storage offerings together with Valdi's distributed compute services for high-performance workloads, including generative AI.

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  Cloud malware protection is a path to object cyberstorage

  Hyperscaler service offerings to detect or eliminate malware add features that analysts call cyberstorage to common object storage, a step toward improving security standards.

• June 28, 2024 28 Jun'24

  Lenovo expands AI offerings, liquid cooling

  Lenovo sets itself apart from others by offering configured AI products to speed deployment and shape direction, while also expanding liquid cooling to lower costs.

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  New Relic CEO sets observability strategy for the AI age

  Former Proofpoint CEO sets an AI-focused agenda, including an Nvidia partnership launched this week, while denying layoff rumors and speculation about a merger with Sumo Logic.

• June 26, 2024 26 Jun'24

  Broadcom faces challenges with latest VMware releases

  CIOs are taking a hard look at the VMware portfolio as the number of alternatives rises in the hybrid cloud infrastructure market.

• June 26, 2024 26 Jun'24

  Datadog DASH updates push into fresh IT automation turf

  A series of product updates at Datadog DASH broke out of the vendor's usual observability domain and into territory held by Atlassian, PagerDuty and others.

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  StorOne adds data protection, dynamic cross-media tiering

  StorOne adds cross-media tiering in a single volume to bring the same performance at lower costs, while adding a huge number of snapshots and anomaly detection.

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  JFrog buy bolsters MLOps combo with DevSecOps

  JFrog plans to meld AI/ML development with established DevSecOps pipelines through the acquisition of Qwak in a bid to help more enterprise AI apps reach production.

• June 19, 2024 19 Jun'24

  OpsRamp embraces automation for GenAI workloads

  In this Q&A, Varma Kunaparaju, HPE OpsRamp lead, talks about soon-to-come platform updates, which include GenAI capabilities and building trust for AI-driven automation.

• June 19, 2024 19 Jun'24

  SUSE Rancher gears up amid VMware-Broadcom 'feeding frenzy'

  SUSE Rancher bolsters its bid to capture users dissatisfied with Broadcom's changes to VMware with the acquisition of StackState and other updates to its Prime package.

• June 19, 2024 19 Jun'24

  Pure Storage adds AI and automation, extends SLAs

  Pure Storage is introducing new AI features, including a new copilot aimed at providing efficiency, ease of use and security, while expanding SLAs for data protection and recovery.

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  HPE GreenLake adds GenAI capabilities as on-premises PaaS

  HPE GreenLake debuts a new PaaS offering for enterprise GenAI development, co-created with Nvidia. HPE also updated OpsRamp and server hardware refreshes for AI workloads.

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  HPE to offer KVM virtualization for GreenLake private cloud

  HPE debuts its virtualization capability for HPE Private Cloud later this year as an integrated GreenLake alternative to third-party vendors such as VMware, Nutanix or Red Hat.

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  Datadobi adds analysis and dashboards to StorageMap

  Customers can now see where their critical data is, make a better representation of it and move it to where it is most effectively utilized.

• June 17, 2024 17 Jun'24

  Post-lawsuit, Splunk and Cribl meet again in data pipelines

  Weeks after a jury awarded Splunk $1 in its lawsuit against Cribl, the two vendors remain on a collision course, this time in the realm of data pipelines and federated analytics.

• June 17, 2024 17 Jun'24

  Open source security's systemic challenges

  In this installment of 'IT Ops Query,' Emily Fox talks about how reevaluating 50-year-old open source security practices could lead the community somewhere new.

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  New Cisco-Splunk observability roadmap details emerge

  Post-acquisition, Cisco puts Splunk's CEO in charge of its observability strategy and lays out the details of how Splunk Observability Cloud will replace its existing platform.

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  Hammerspace adds S3 interface to Global Data Platform

  Hammerspace adds the S3 interface to its parallel global file system, allowing object storage to talk directly to the software while bringing more efficient data use to compute.

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  StorMagic debuts HCI, hypervisor as VMware alternative

  StorMagic looks to court customers with smaller data centers for SMBs and the edge with SvHCI, a new VMware alternative with a KVM-based hypervisor and HCI capabilities.

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  WD unveils storage for AI framework alongside new drives

  As the focus for enterprise AI spreads beyond compute, Western Digital introduces a new SSD and HDD. It also released an AI framework that outlines what storage should be used when.