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• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  Sidecarless eBPF service mesh sparks debate

  As cloud-native service meshes expand beyond Kubernetes, open source community members raise concerns about the security and suitability of eBPF in sidecarless architectures.

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  HPE brings multi-protocol Alletra storage to GreenLake

  HPE's newest addition to its Alletra portfolio supports block, file and object protocols. It reflects a shift toward simplification and commoditization in storage hardware.

• April 19, 2023 19 Apr'23

  Zadara taps new CEO as founder moves to CTO role

  Yoram Novick, the second CEO for cloud startup Zadara, brings decades of IT executive experience to the role and talks about private cloud competition in this Q&A.

• April 19, 2023 19 Apr'23

  Atlassian demos ChatGPT tie-ins for Confluence, Jira Cloud

  Atlassian teased early previews of cloud platform AI that supports natural language queries and automated links between Jira, Confluence and third-party products.

• April 19, 2023 19 Apr'23

  Server-side Wasm boosts K8s bonds, devx ahead of key update

  Early adopters await a WASI update this year before server-side Wasm can be ready for wider production use. For now, PaaS vendors have begun to bridge some of the gaps.

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• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  ChatGPT craze hits infrastructure as code

  From GitHub's Copilot to a purpose-built product from Pulumi, generative AI is emerging for infrastructure as code, with the same potential benefits and risks it presents for apps.

• April 11, 2023 11 Apr'23

  Microsoft mends Windows zero-day on April Patch Tuesday

  What's old is new again as multiple security updates from the past made a comeback this month to push the total number of vulnerabilities addressed to 102.

• April 11, 2023 11 Apr'23

  Quantum containerizes file, object storage

  In a shift for Quantum Corp., the vendor is now competing in the file and object storage market with its all-flash, software-defined, scale-out Myriad offering.

• April 07, 2023 07 Apr'23

  The potential effects of Pure Storage's 300 TB SSDs

  Pure Storage plans to have 300 TB SSD modules by 2026, potentially putting other HDD- and SSD-based systems at a scalability disadvantage. But with two-plus years to go, that advantage could change.

• April 06, 2023 06 Apr'23

  Mainframe modernization to AI apps: USPTO reinvents itself

  How the US Patent and Trade Office, founded in 1802, maintained IT resilience while managing systems ranging from mainframes to the cloud, AI and beyond.

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Securing remote access grows crucial for DevSecOps

  Between remote work and hybrid cloud lies a menacing security gap that experts warn more and more businesses will fall into without a cohesive approach.

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  OnAsset logistics service taps Amazon Sidewalk

  Logistics company OnAsset Intelligence expects Amazon Sidewalk to be most beneficial for tracking goods on trucks heading to their final destinations in densely populated areas.

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  Vast dips into HPE GreenLake with new file storage service

  HPE enlists Vast Data to provide a new file storage service in the company's GreenLake SaaS offerings, a storage area the tech giant has struggled to perform in.

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  IBM's rack mount Z16 mainframe targets edge computing

  IBM's new rack mount Z16 mainframe gives edge locations the ability to process workloads locally, taking the burden off systems running workloads in larger data centers.

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  Istio service mesh doyen departs Google, touts Ambient Mesh

  After 16 years at Google, Istio's co-founder takes over as CTO at Solo.io and goes all in on a project he believes will determine the future of cloud-native networking.

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  New Ctera CEO sees future in data lakes, data protection

  Ctera's new CEO, Oded Nagel, is focused on forming partnerships and providing capabilities for data resilience, interconnectivity and the edge data management.

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  Toshiba's $15B buyout won't affect storage businesses

  The acquisition, pending shareholder approval, would take Toshiba private, a move experts say could help stabilize the company, which has been searching for a path forward.

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  Comcast subsidiary survives March Madness with AIOps

  AIOps alert reduction brought order to a chaotic environment at TV advertising specialist FreeWheel just in time for a big test of its resiliency during a wild NCAA tournament.

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  MinIO airs Weka licensing complaint

  MinIO launched a blog battle with Weka on its use of the former's object store, with both claiming to be in the right.

• March 23, 2023 23 Mar'23

  Data hoarding and the role of storage

  The promise of future insights drives companies to store data. But there are potential drawbacks when storing data and better management methods than keeping everything.

• March 22, 2023 22 Mar'23

  Java 20 Project Loom updates set stage for Java LTS

  Java 20 reincubates two Project Loom scalability features, making them prime candidates to become standard in September's Java LTS.

• March 21, 2023 21 Mar'23

  Nvidia DGX Quantum system blends CPUs, GPUs with CUDA

  Nvidia and Quantum Machines deliver a new architecture that combines CPUs and GPUs with quantum technologies.

• March 20, 2023 20 Mar'23

  Oracle OKE takes on Azure, AWS with serverless Kubernetes

  Oracle added serverless Kubernetes and a financially backed SLA to its OKE managed service, playing catch-up with AWS, Google and Azure and taking a swipe at them on pricing.

• March 20, 2023 20 Mar'23

  HPE to acquire OpsRamp for GreenLake IT ops tools

  IT automation specialist OpsRamp will become part of HPE's GreenLake portfolio, adding hybrid cloud visibility and notification tools to the IT conglomerate's SaaS offerings.

• March 20, 2023 20 Mar'23

  Docker Free Team concerns linger after mea culpa

  Docker apologized for a 'terrible job' sharing its plan to deprecate a Free Team subscription, but some observers remain worried about security implications from the transition.

• March 17, 2023 17 Mar'23

  How ChatGPT and generative AI will affect IT operations

  As generative AI programs improve, they raise questions for many engineering disciplines about the future of work -- and IT operations is no exception.

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  Microsoft stops two zero-days for March Patch Tuesday

  The company corrects actively exploited vulnerabilities that affected Microsoft Outlook and the Windows OS in this month's batch of security updates.

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  Amazon adds new S3 features for data lakes, hybrid cloud

  Amazon dropped new features for its object storage service that include an open source file client, new data purchasing capabilities and private data replication for Outposts.

• March 13, 2023 13 Mar'23

  GitHub SBOM updates build automation foundation

  A new CLI extension and other features due to ship this month lay the groundwork to help developers make better use of software supply chain data and mitigate vulnerabilities.

• March 10, 2023 10 Mar'23

  Kubernetes storage still acquisition target for IT vendors

  Persistent Kubernetes storage startups like Ondat are becoming extinct as enterprise IT vendors prow the market for container native storage tech.

• March 09, 2023 09 Mar'23

  GitHub 2FA plan adds SMS, account lockout safeguards

  GitHub has added SMS support and fresh account lockout prevention features to its phased rollout plans as it prepares to implement a 2FA requirement for accounts beginning Monday.

• March 09, 2023 09 Mar'23

  Komprise Analysis offers standalone SaaS data visibility tools

  Analytical capabilities of the data management vendor's flagship product are now available as a separate SaaS to help provide better visibility into enterprise data.

• March 08, 2023 08 Mar'23

  White House cybersecurity plan collides with SecOps reality

  The White House Cybersecurity Strategy sets lofty goals. But recent market research suggests a significant number of enterprises don't follow existing SecOps best practices.

• March 08, 2023 08 Mar'23

  Cisco, HPE plug holes in cloud security portfolios

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise also unveiled plans to acquire Athonet, an Italian company that provides cellular technology for private 4G and 5G networks.

• March 02, 2023 02 Mar'23

  ChatGPT API sets stage for new wave of enterprise apps

  The new API is faster and cheaper than the previous ChatGPT interface, and users can opt out of submitting their data to it, opening new doors for enterprise developers.

• March 01, 2023 01 Mar'23

  Pure aims new FlashBlade//E at unstructured data market

  Pure Storage expanded its storage offerings with FlashBlade//E designed for the unstructured data market with an acquisition cost on par with hybrid storage.

• March 01, 2023 01 Mar'23

  SBOM graph database aims to be cloud security secret sauce

  An open source consortium that includes Google plans to release a deployable beta of the GUAC project this month, a possible milestone for cloud-native SBOM.

• February 27, 2023 27 Feb'23

  Vast Data expands data services for file and object

  Vast Data Universal Storage brought out data services, including set performance, metadata cataloging, better security, container integration and snapshots.

• February 23, 2023 23 Feb'23

  CEO reflects on remote work, team-building amid Ukraine war

  A GraphQL API management company is on track for an official launch in the coming months, despite a year of massive challenges for its developer team in Ukraine.

• February 21, 2023 21 Feb'23

  Technology trends behind Cisco, Arista earnings

  Cisco and Arista's latest earnings reports show that companies are upgrading campus networks and distributing more applications across cloud and edge environments.

• February 16, 2023 16 Feb'23

  Dynatrace security AI roots out Log4j, sets tone for roadmap

  Dynatrace must prove itself beyond application security, but its AI's effectiveness against the Log4j vulnerability has some customers receptive to its product expansion plans.

• February 16, 2023 16 Feb'23

  Spectra Logic introduces multimedia auto-tiering for archives

  Spectra Logic helps users manage archives with new software integration and auto-tiering into hardware or software. It's also partnering with Wasabi on more storage options.

• February 16, 2023 16 Feb'23

  IBM drops from top spot in patents, surpassed by Samsung

  IBM lost its title as patent king to Samsung, which had more than 8,500 patents approved in 2022. One reason cited is IBM's transformation to a software and services company.

• February 16, 2023 16 Feb'23

  Dynatrace users make headway with AIOps

  Dynatrace's aggressive NoOps vision hasn't come to fruition, but some customers have begun to see real-world results with root-cause analysis and automated rollbacks.

• February 15, 2023 15 Feb'23

  AI might fix GitHub code search developer pain points

  GitHub code search helps developers query complex codebases. But the tool could benefit from more tailored results and better support for natural language queries.

• February 15, 2023 15 Feb'23

  Cisco Viptela SD-WAN integrates with SASE for better security

  Cisco Viptela SD-WAN integration with Cisco+ Secure Connect brings cloud-based security to remote workers and easier collaboration between IT security and networking teams.

• February 15, 2023 15 Feb'23

  Cloud is a growing force in industrial IoT

  Utilities and manufacturers are examples of industries using distributed cloud computing in private facilities to collect and send data across multiple facilities.

• February 15, 2023 15 Feb'23

  Microsoft remedies three zero-days on February Patch Tuesday

  The company releases its security updates to shut down the vulnerabilities threat actors have been actively using for attacks in the wild.

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  Cribl Search marks fresh observability sortie for upstart

  The Splunk nemesis begins new forays onto the turf of incumbent vendors with federated search that doesn't require data migration or indexing -- and big roadmap plans.

• February 13, 2023 13 Feb'23

  Warranty company devs get serverless computing boost

  A company bogged down in AWS CDK code busted serverless development bottlenecks with DevZero, which gives developers their own production-like environment.

• February 10, 2023 10 Feb'23

  GitHub to lay off 10% of workforce, sparks remote work debate

  GitHub's plan to cut jobs and move to fully remote work sparks more discussion on whether remote workers will be first on the next tech chopping block.

• February 09, 2023 09 Feb'23

  Kubernetes platforms and the hazy fate of cloud portability

  Whatever happened to Kubernetes for cloud portability? Some market research suggests the dream still lives, but platform engineering further complicates matters.

• February 09, 2023 09 Feb'23

  Atlassian Jira updates aim to democratize product discovery

  Atlassian Jira's new tools help to organize projects, provide better visibility, and align the goals of software delivery, operations and product teams.

• February 08, 2023 08 Feb'23

  Dell OneFS adds security, some performance to PowerScale

  Through a software-only update, Dell gives its OneFS operating system more security layers and some added performance to its PowerScale NAS line.

• February 07, 2023 07 Feb'23

  Western Digital releases dual-actuator HDDs

  WD has quietly released a dual-actuator HDD, bringing dense drives with higher transfer rates, but customers can't reap the full benefits just yet.

• February 07, 2023 07 Feb'23

  Cisco samples OpenTelemetry-based observability tool blends

  Updates set to ship this week and next quarter will unify data collection for Cisco's observability and security tools and catch them up with full-stack competitors.

• February 07, 2023 07 Feb'23

  NetApp adds storage buying options, arrays

  NetApp introduces a myriad of buying options and hybrid cloud capabilities for VMware workloads on Google Cloud. Soon-to-come: new QLC all-flash arrays.

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Volatile times for non-volatile memory as NAND sales decline

  All the major NAND vendors are seeing poor earnings as the demand for flash storage has dried up over the last two quarters.

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  AMD lifts optimism for the chip market with upbeat earnings

  AMD reported a rise in fourth-quarter revenue, along with expectations for a much-needed surge in demand for PCs in the second half of 2023.

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Azure Load Testing now GA with new speed, security options

  Microsoft's Azure Load Testing rolls out with new features to create fast load tests, securely push code to test environments and monitor test performance during the run.

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Jellyfish value stream management tool busts bottlenecks

  Jellyfish adds value stream data to its productivity tracking tool for engineering teams that want to address inefficiencies in software development.

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Hard drives fall on hard times

  Hard drive manufacturers have had a couple of bad quarters due to the lingering effects of the pandemic and supply chain issues, but see a turning point on the horizon.

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  NetApp to lay off 8% of workforce, blames economy

  NetApp reduced its global workforce by 8%. Analysts said the layoffs are a combination of hardware buyer hesitancy and employee redundancies from acquisitions.

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  Oracle officially supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI

  Responding to user demand, Oracle struck a deal with Red Hat to make the latter's Enterprise Linux operating system an integral part of Oracle's multi-cloud strategy.

• January 30, 2023 30 Jan'23

  Big tech layoffs may ease software engineer shortage

  Recent layoffs will create an influx of software engineers on the job market in the coming months, which might benefit smaller enterprises searching for talent.

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Intel revenue drops again; company to speed up next-gen chips

  Dogged by stalled PC sales and tighter IT spending, Intel once again reported down revenues. CEO Pat Gelsinger highlighted progress and plans to remedy the issue.

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Efforts to improve memory safety in software gain momentum

  Unsafe memory access can cause financial woes for enterprises and personal harm to individuals, experts say, advising enterprises to switch to memory-safe languages.

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Next Pathway offers ETL code translation as SaaS

  Next Pathway's Shift Cloud will provide companies with a pay-as-needed option for performing ETL code translation for data warehouse cloud migrations.

• January 26, 2023 26 Jan'23

  Lens Kubernetes developer portal expands with Shipa buy

  The early stage startup, co-founded by Juniper and CloudBees vets, adds a "stupid easy" option for application auto-discovery and ongoing management, according to Mirantis.

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  OpenSSF GM talks funding, legal software supply chain issues

  The OpenSSF leader lays out plans fund open source software supply chain security in a slowing economy and to speak out against the EU's Cyber Resilience Act.

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Devs discuss when to use TypeScript vs. JavaScript

  TypeScript catches errors at compile time, which benefits developers and users. But the language isn't suitable for every project due to its additional overhead.

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  Storage vendors look to make case for sustainability

  Energy costs are rising, and sustainability is all the rage. But storage vendors may struggle convincing customers to combat climate change during an economic downturn.

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Microsoft offers developer guidance on green software tools

  Microsoft, UBS and others back developers' use of open source carbon-aware tools. Two case studies -- one enterprise and one academic -- demonstrate green software tools in action.

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  IT budgets under pressure spur tool consolidation

  As the tech industry suffers layoffs and slowing growth, IT organizations such as Boeing are handing some of their IT vendors pink slips of their own.

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Latest Google Cloud AI shines spotlight on retail automation

  AI-powered automated inventory tracking systems aren't perfect. However, retailers with high rates of lost sales from missing items in stores could still achieve a decent ROI.

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Data pipelines feed IT’s observability beast

  Amid data growth, cloud complexity and demand for advanced automation, the data pipelines developed to satisfy the appetites of AI apps also serve observability tools.

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  HPE expands Alletra with focused storage servers

  HPE released new storage servers for container and software-defined storage with the Alletra 4000. The new servers bring high compute with new Intel CPUs in a denser package.

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Dell's next-generation PowerEdge servers target AI inferencing

  Dell has delivered versions of its PowerEdge servers using Intel's 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors and AMD's EPYC chips.

• January 17, 2023 17 Jan'23

  CircleCI incident adds to SecOps toil

  SaaS CI/CD vendor CircleCI urged customers to rotate all secrets data, the latest of several security breaches weighing on SecOps pros charged with responding.

• January 17, 2023 17 Jan'23

  Experts rate programming languages for beginners in 2023

  Python and JavaScript are two standouts for novices, according to developer experts. But fledgling coders should diversify their toolbox with newer languages too.

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  Startup's eBPF APM tools turn up heat on Datadog

  Lemonade plans to put tools from eBPF startup Groundcover in production this year in a bid to reduce instrumentation work and other overhead for its small DevOps team.

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  Updates to GitHub Actions add efficiency, risk of friction

  GitHub Actions required workflows and configuration variables can reduce duplicate configuration code and shore up policy compliance but may add to developer frustration.

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  Micron's 9400 U.3 SSD aimed at AI, ML workloads

  Micron has expanded its NVMe SSD portfolio with the 9400 U.3, a TLC drive designed to provide high-performance storage for high-performance use cases.

• January 11, 2023 11 Jan'23

  Amazon S3 now encrypts data by default

  AWS has changed a setting for new Amazon S3 buckets to encrypt data by default, a move that increases data protection and places more emphasis on customer security.

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  Microsoft resolves Windows zero-day on January Patch Tuesday

  The company also issues five corrections, all with a rating of important, to address vulnerabilities on its on-premises Exchange Server email platform.

• January 09, 2023 09 Jan'23

  Data growth to help storage vendors weather slowing economy

  The economy may be slowing down, but reliance on data isn't -- a reality that might help enterprise storage vendors wade through economic turbulence in 2023.

• January 09, 2023 09 Jan'23

  AI risks shadow software development security trend

  The rise of AI-assisted workflows will facilitate software development security amid growing open source vulnerabilities, but comes with the threat of AI-generated attacks.

• January 09, 2023 09 Jan'23

  Microsoft acquires DPU maker Fungible

  Microsoft has acquired Fungible, possibly giving Azure its own data processing units.

• January 09, 2023 09 Jan'23

  Public cloud spending, competition to rise in 2023

  In 2023, companies expect to increase spending on public cloud applications and infrastructure, and hyperscalers that have dominated the market will face new competition.

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  Micro credentials could stave off software engineer layoffs

  Software developers can take measures to protect their jobs with micro credentials tailored to their company’s needs within hot trends such as cloud computing and AI.

• January 03, 2023 03 Jan'23

  Multi-cloud networking trends to watch in 2023

  As multi-cloud networking becomes an industry standard, enterprises increasingly seek tools to wrangle data, services and security in a sprawling network that can span countries.

• December 22, 2022 22 Dec'22

  RackTop Systems, Seagate deepen partnership for secure NAS

  RackTop Systems and Seagate are offering more in turnkey storage appliances and private cloud integration, combining security software into primary storage devices.

• December 21, 2022 21 Dec'22

  Dish Media swaps observability sprawl for Elastic Stack SaaS

  With fewer tools and data repositories to wrangle and Elastic cluster management outsourced to SaaS, Dish Media's ops teams reduced toil and achieved proactive incident response.

• December 21, 2022 21 Dec'22

  VMware adds managed storage service for VMs on AWS

  Cloud Flex Storage by VMware provides to customers of VMware Cloud on AWS a managed storage service with cloud console provisioning.

• December 21, 2022 21 Dec'22

  Prospects unclear for two Nucamp coding boot camp graduates

  A coding boot camp can jumpstart a career in tech, but only for those willing to go the extra mile. Here's how two non-developers fared in a four-week web development boot camp.

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Arista's new switches support 800GbE for hyperscalers

  Arista's new switches provide more options for enterprises and higher speeds for bandwidth-hungry hyperscalers. The latest hardware is generally available.

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Review the top IT operations news stories of 2022

  2022 was full of industry updates, company shake-ups and emerging technologies. Review the highlights of this year's IT ops news to prepare for what's next in 2023.

• December 16, 2022 16 Dec'22

  Salesforce DevOps Center ships to rein in low-code apps

  Salesforce DevOps Center rolled out with features meant to bring low-code and pro-code custom apps on its CRM platform up to date with current software development practices.

• December 15, 2022 15 Dec'22

  Software moved needle for enterprise storage in 2022

  Consultants and analysts say SaaS and cloud sales will dominate enterprise storage market into 2023. But hardware innovations are still possible and on the horizon.

• December 15, 2022 15 Dec'22

  Lego site vulnerabilities highlight API security gaps

  What's old is new again: Lego site BrickLink was found vulnerable to cross-site scripting and other well-understood types of attacks, intensifying scrutiny on API security.