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Slow Ansible Lightspeed adoption might reflect AI qualms
Customers with Ansible Lightspeed in pilots or production remain rare, as concerns about the risks of AI and the need to shore up a solid IT automation foundation prompt caution.
By Beth Pariseau • May 10, 2024 -
Red Hat CTO, Nvidia AI exec reveal joint LLMOps roadmap
The company leaders discussed deepening integration between OpenShift AI and Nvidia NIMs, how they fit into RHEL AI and what's surprised them about AI growth so far.
By Beth Pariseau • May 9, 2024 -
Red Hat OpenShift AI links LLMs into hybrid cloud
An extensively updated OpenShift AI will underpin RHEL AI and, if Red Hat has its way, enterprises' AI infrastructure from the edge to the public cloud.
By Beth Pariseau • May 7, 2024 -
Cloud campaign intensifies for Atlassian software products
Atlassian plans to continue updating Data Center products, but accelerating cloud updates and migrations touted at Team '24 prompt questions about their long-term future.
By Beth Pariseau • May 3, 2024 -
Weaveworks’ lessons for open source business leaders
Weaveworks CEO Alexis Richardson talks about the company's beginnings and ultimate end, and offers up some ideas on how to help the businesses of open source software succeed.
By Nicole Laskowski , Beth Pariseau • May 3, 2024 -
Atlassian Jira now a hub for knowledge management, AI tools
Atlassian's raft of product updates at Team '24 spanned long-awaited product integrations and previews of AI automation updates, all of which advanced broader ambitions.
By Beth Pariseau • May 1, 2024 -
Buoyant CEO on Linkerd’s existential question
Buoyant CEO William Morgan said project viability and long-term funding underpinned recent changes to Linkerd, problems other open source projects are likely to face.
By Nicole Laskowski , Beth Pariseau • April 30, 2024 -
Expert Advice // Elevate your Microsoft 365 user management proficiency
How to avoid Microsoft 365 management pitfalls
A migration to the cloud collaboration platform requires a command of the multiple admin portals available to admins to help the organization make the most of its subscription.
By Liam Cleary • April 30, 2024 -
webmaster
A webmaster is someone who creates and manages the content and organization of a website, manages the computer server and technical programming aspects of a website, or does both.
By Andrew Zola • April 29, 2024 -
Open source software’s tragedy of the commons
Will open source software become a tragedy of the commons? Senior news writer Beth Pariseau and Sentry's Chad Whitacre take up the question.
By Nicole Laskowski , Beth Pariseau • April 26, 2024 -
FCC broadband labels explained: Everything you need to know
Similar to how a nutrition label details food content, the FCC now mandates labels for internet providers to clarify service details for consumers to improve transparency.
By Sean Kerner • April 25, 2024 -
Experts: IBM buy could change HashiCorp open source equation
IBM will buy HashiCorp for $6.5 billion, prompting speculation that being brought under the same roof as Red Hat could alter Hashi's open source trajectory.
By Beth Pariseau • April 24, 2024 -
Splunk-Cribl lawsuit yields mixed result for both companies
Cribl did infringe on Splunk's copyright, a California jury found, but awarded damages of only $1. Both sides declared victory, and Splunk vowed to seek injunctive relief.
By Beth Pariseau • April 23, 2024 -
host virtual machine (host VM)
A host virtual machine is the server component of a virtual machine the underlying hardware that provides computing resources to support a particular guest VM.
By Kinza Yasar , Rahul Awati • April 22, 2024 -
OpenTofu forges on with beta feature that drew HashiCorp ire
Defying a HashiCorp cease and desist, OpenTofu 1.7 beta ships with the removed blocks feature and client-side state encryption support long sought by the Terraform community.
By Beth Pariseau • April 19, 2024 -
GitLab Duo plans harness growing interest in platform AI
GitLab's next release will tie its Duo AI tools to the full DevSecOps pipeline in a bid to capitalize on increased interest in AI automation among platform engineers.
By Beth Pariseau • April 18, 2024 -
DHS funding breathes fresh life into SBOMs
Protobom, now an OpenSSF sandbox project, is the first of multiple software supply chain security efforts funded under the Silicon Valley Innovation Program.
By Beth Pariseau • April 17, 2024 -
Expert Advice // New and updated features admins can expect in Windows Server 2025
New Active Directory features coming in Windows Server 2025
The upcoming Windows Server release will bring significant enhancements to Active Directory, including a new functional level and security and performance improvements.
By Brien Posey • April 16, 2024 -
Opinion
Key takeaways from KubeCon 2024 in Paris
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 offered attendees a look into the growing popularity of AI but also covered key areas such as sustainability, observability and FinOps.
By Jon Brown • April 12, 2024 -
Microsoft corks Windows zero-day on April Patch Tuesday
The company delivered one of its largest security update releases in recent years with a proxy driver spoofing vulnerability topping the patching priority list.
By Tom Walat • April 10, 2024 -
Expert Advice
Compare Nutanix AHV vs. VMware ESXi in the hypervisor battle
Though Nutanix AHV and VMware ESXi offer similar feature sets, admins' decisions will depend on several factors, such as virtualization needs and workload size.
By Stuart Burns • April 8, 2024 -
Expert Advice
Azure Site Recovery tutorial for workload disaster recovery
Understand the costs and the requirements to use this flexible disaster recovery service that works with Linux and Windows Server in the data center and virtual machines in the Azure cloud.
By Stuart Burns • April 8, 2024 -
Expert Advice
Learn how New Relic works and when to use it for IT monitoring
New Relic is one of many tools that can help an IT team track application performance and health. Before adoption, understand primary use cases and SaaS installation requirements.
By Stephen Bigelow • April 5, 2024 -
Splunk-Cribl lawsuit over log management heads to trial
A jury trial, in which Splunk now accuses Cribl of violating the terms of the Splunk Enterprise license and its partnership agreement, is scheduled to begin April 8.
By Beth Pariseau • April 4, 2024 -
Expert Advice
Configure Kubernetes garbage collection to get rid of waste
Kubernetes garbage collection is an important task for cluster health. Learn how to configure garbage collections to your own preference to effectively manage deployments.
By Matt Grasberger • April 2, 2024