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• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  AI security worries stall enterprise production deployments

  From Big Tech executives at Cisco's AI Summit this week to market research, the industry is waking up to a major hindrance in enterprise AI adoption.

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Atlassian Rovo AI platform grows to 3 million monthly users

  In this episode of IT Ops Query, Atlassian's Jamil Valliani discusses how the company grew its Rovo AI user base by eliminating adoption barriers and meeting users where they are.

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Kubernetes AI progress in 2025 and the road ahead

  Presentations at KubeCon 2025 detailed efforts since last year's conference to enhance support for AI on Kubernetes platforms and previewed what's ahead.

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  CNCF surveys highlight cloud-native AI connections

  Cloud-native infrastructure aligns closely with AI in two new CNCF surveys, thanks in part to platform engineering and other abstractions that make it more user-friendly.

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 news coverage

  This guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 features updates from the event, related news to prep for the show and highlights from this year's European conference.

• September 18, 2025 18 Sep'25

  Harness takes aim at AI 'bottleneck' with DevSecOps agents

  The vendor's new agentic features are included in products that already have a track record in AI-driven automation, as coding agents swamp software delivery pipelines.

• September 12, 2025 12 Sep'25

  Splunk preps OpenLLMetry tie-ins for deeper AI monitoring

  Detailed visibility into internal communications will be essential to enterprise trust in AI agents, and something Splunk and the OpenTelemetry project intend to offer.

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Under Cisco, Splunk AI roadmap tees up pricing overhaul

  Splunk's plans to develop a federated AI data management platform for Cisco will include a new pricing program that lowers data ingestion costs.

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Cisco-Splunk strategy shift unveiled with Data Fabric

  Cisco Data Fabric emphasizes bringing Splunk analytics to data where it lives, rather than a central ingestion point, and will add more third-party data sources such as Snowflake.

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  New VMware private AI infrastructure rethinks Tanzu, again

  Broadcom's VMware finally abandons a long effort to unify Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry as it battles cloud and virtualization rivals on multiple fronts.

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  VMware adds to AI 'jump ball' effect with Tanzu upgrades

  Broadcom's virtualization software business is fortifying its Tanzu offerings with a focus on AI and security.

• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  Credit Karma leader shares AI governance lessons learned

  Start slow and break things -- that's how the head of data and AI at the fintech says enterprises should start building AI governance frameworks.

• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  Agile methodology reborn as COVID, AI transform enterprises

  Enterprises grew disillusioned during the past decade with efforts to scale Agile, but global upheavals since 2020 have pushed some business transformations over the finish line.

• July 30, 2025 30 Jul'25

  A+E Global Media boosts AIOps with deterministic AI

  What once needed extensive scripting and fine-tuning has become more precise and easier to use after recent updates to Kubiya's agentic AIOps tools.

• July 29, 2025 29 Jul'25

  Big vendors back Linux Foundation agentic workflows project

  Agntcy overlaps with MCP and Agent2Agent but adds proposed standards for a broader range of network layers in the still-emerging 'internet of agents.'

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  Infrastructure-as-code tools advance platform evolution

  Infrastructure as code still anchors IT automation, but its primary users are now platform engineers, prompting ongoing shifts in product features and competition.

• June 18, 2025 18 Jun'25

  Mitigating AI's unique risks with AI monitoring

  Coralogix CEO highlights the difference between AI and software monitoring, as illustrated by his company's acquisition and product expansion this year.

• 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 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

  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

  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 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 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Red Hat Summit 2025 news and conference guide

  Our guide to the annual Red Hat Summit keeps you up to date on trends, emerging technologies, and information from keynote speakers and industry experts.

• 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

  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

  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 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

  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 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 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 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 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

  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 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

  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 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 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 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 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 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.

• 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 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 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 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  Dynatrace ups AIOps ante with log analytics refresh

  Updates to Dynatrace CoPilot and log analytics for AIOps prompt users to dump other tools, but migrations can be a challenge.

• January 29, 2025 29 Jan'25

  CISO enlists agentic AI reinforcements for SecOps

  AI agents are already in the hands of adversaries. One aerospace CISO has begun to use them to augment his SecOps staff and even the score.

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  EU, U.S. at odds on AI safety regulations

  The U.S. under the new Trump administration changes course on AI safety, in contrast with the EU, as uncertainty lingers about other Biden-era federal cybersecurity efforts.

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  Review and predictions for open source software in 2025

  Sigstore creator, Chainguard CEO, OpenSSF TAC member and Season 1 guest Dan Lorenc returns to review 2024 and make predictions for 2025.

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  Cybersecurity expertise gaps: More than meets the eye

  An S&P Global analyst charts the past, present and future of SecOps, where demand continues to outpace the supply of advanced skills.

• January 17, 2025 17 Jan'25

  Biden order gives CISA software supply chain 'teeth'

  The outgoing administration makes a Hail Mary attempt to salvage work it began in 2021 to require specific software supply chain security information from software suppliers.

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  Cisco AI cybersecurity launch touts shadow AI defense

  Cisco wields the power of incumbency to weave AI security into existing cloud access management tools, including algorithmic validation testing on AI models.

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Rethinking business continuity before the next big IT outage

  For one industry analyst, the most significant gap exposed by the CrowdStrike outage is between IT and business -- not Sec and Ops.

• December 20, 2024 20 Dec'24

  Platform teams draw on DataOps, MLOps to support GenAI

  GenAI calls for more rigorous data discipline than previous forms of analytics, but there are lessons platform teams can learn from existing approaches.

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  AWS, Red Hat hybrid cloud wares court VMware converts

  Broadcom has softened some of its stances on VMware licensing and public cloud, but competitors stay poised to pounce on customers looking to defect.

• December 13, 2024 13 Dec'24

  Last-minute geek gift ideas for the holidays

  Still searching for holiday gifts for geeks? Try these offbeat suggestions recommended by our panel of consultants, from the practical to the fantastic and everything in between.

• December 05, 2024 05 Dec'24

  Amazon Q, Bedrock updates make case for cloud in agentic AI

  Amazon and its partners rev their engines in anticipation of agentic AI with updates that challenge the cost and quality claims of self-hosted infrastructure competitors.

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  WasmCloud makes strides with Wasm component model

  After a stall in 2023, this year's WASI Preview 2 pushed server-side WebAssembly forward, turning heads at companies such as American Express -- but it's far from mainstream use.

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  Rethinking 'secure by design' amid slippery SecOps shifts

  An expert discusses the fallout from a CISA report that raised doubts about the last decade's DevSecOps trend, and where the industry goes from here.

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  IT pros revise pipelines for software supply chain security

  Software supply chain security has reached an awkward stage for enterprise IT, as platform and security pros grapple with adding upstream tools to existing workflows.

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  AI gateways, Kubernetes multi-tenancy loop in LLMOps

  There are many areas of IT infrastructure affected by the emergence of LLMOps; for each, there were products and projects rolled out this week at KubeCon.

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Intel, Nvidia vie for dominance with agentic AI blueprints

  Rival sets of tools meant to better support AI apps on developer platforms have hit the market as an even bigger wave of change looms in agentic AI.

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Platform engineers call for cloud-native GenAI updates

  GenAI apps put unprecedented pressure on IT infrastructure management, which has IT pros in the field looking to the open source community for reinforcements.

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  CEO: GenAI changes multi-cloud security, network equation

  Aviatrix CEO Doug Merritt sees generative AI apps forcing a more distributed approach to cloud infrastructure, but he believes it will also help SecOps catch up with threats.

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  OpenShift AI boosts LLMOps chops with Neural Magic deal

  The acquisition of a top contributor to an open source library already linked to OpenShift AI comes as LLMOps fundamentally alters the platform engineering scene.

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  Lines blur between enterprise SecOps and cyberdefense

  One expert predicts AI will ultimately benefit attackers more than defenders and, instead, urges businesses to take a page out of military and government cyberdefense handbooks.

• November 07, 2024 07 Nov'24

  Google DORA issues platform engineering caveats

  As with generative AI, the same techniques that can boost enterprise developer productivity can also slow and destabilize overall software delivery.

• November 01, 2024 01 Nov'24

  IBM Apptio preps FinOps link with Terraform via GitHub

  IBM drops another hint about its plans for HashiCorp with a shift-left FinOps integration in private beta, while tie-ins with Red Hat remain an open question.

• November 01, 2024 01 Nov'24

  Could SBOMs save lives? SecOps in critical infrastructure

  'We live in glass houses,' said a seasoned cybersecurity expert of the U.S. water supply, healthcare and other lifeline services. 'And people are about to start throwing rocks.'

• October 25, 2024 25 Oct'24

  Relearning past lessons in assessing cloud risk

  Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it -- even when that history is only about a decade or two old, according to one security analyst in this podcast episode.

• October 24, 2024 24 Oct'24

  Linkerd stable release paywall worked, Buoyant CEO says

  Buoyant's CEO urged other CNCF projects to follow Linkerd's lead in holding back stable releases for paying customers, but analysts don't echo that recommendation.

• 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 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

  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.

• 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 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 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 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.

• 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 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.