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• 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.

• 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

  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

  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 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 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  Be prepared for open source software risks

  Companies need to prepare for the risks and responsibilities of using open source software, according to Chainguard's Dan Lorenc. Nothing is ever completely free.

• May 28, 2024 28 May'24

  Magical thinking puts open source maintenance in jeopardy

  Open source software maintenance is broken. Tobie Langel has a big picture idea for how to fix it, which he shares in this installment of IT Ops Query.

• May 21, 2024 21 May'24

  IBM gives glimpse of HashiCorp plans with AIOps preview

  The idea that IBM's $6.5 billion deal for HashiCorp will change its open source stance has lost steam given plans to unite it with other proprietary tools under IBM Concert.

• May 16, 2024 16 May'24

  Bruce Perens on software in a Post-Open world

  What comes after open source software? Bruce Perens shares his ideas on why open source as he first defined it has failed, and what a new paradigm could look like.

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  The shortsightedness of open source business models

  Chef Software founder Adam Jacob on the struggle of getting an open source business model right and the licensing approach for his new venture, System Initiative.

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  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.

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  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.

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  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.

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  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.

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  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.

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  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.

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  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.

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  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.

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  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.

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  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.

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  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.

• April 18, 2024 18 Apr'24

  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.

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  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.

• April 04, 2024 04 Apr'24

  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.

• March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

  Sidecarless Istio Ambient Mesh clears cloud interop hurdle

  Istio's Ambient Mesh is now compatible with major cloud providers' managed Kubernetes services, available as an Amazon EKS add-on and slated for beta in the next release.

• March 19, 2024 19 Mar'24

  HashiCorp stock rises, users' hearts fall on sale report

  HashiCorp could be an enticing asset for a large IT vendor. But a sale wouldn't necessarily be great news for customers who value the neutrality of its cloud-native apps.

• March 18, 2024 18 Mar'24

  Cisco lays out security, observability plans for Splunk

  Cisco disclosed broad integration plans for its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk, now officially closed, that will encompass AI, security, observability and networking.

• March 18, 2024 18 Mar'24

  GitOps users warned to patch 3 new Argo CD CVEs

  Three recently identified vulnerabilities, one designated high severity, now have fixes following a lengthy disclosure process and disagreements about their real-world risk.

• March 15, 2024 15 Mar'24

  CISA software supply chain security form omits SBOMs

  Federal suppliers now have a self-attestation deadline amid ongoing efforts to secure software supply chains. But SBOMs' spotlight is fading and big risks remain, experts said.

• March 08, 2024 08 Mar'24

  GenAI risks, rewards arise for DevOps and platform engineers

  From chatbots that alleviate pressure on IT help desks to full-fledged LLMOps, DevOps and platform teams are at the forefront of enterprise generative AI adoption.

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Sumo Logic offers free data ingest for log analytics

  Data ingest is now free for new customers of Sumo Logic's SaaS log analytics product, as observability cost concerns and data volumes mount across the IT industry.

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Octopus Deploy reels in Codefresh for GitOps expertise

  By joining forces in CI/CD and GitOps, the combined companies look to even the odds with bigger competitors, but this will be a daunting task, experts predict.

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Linkerd paywall prompts online debate, CNCF TOC review

  Linkerd's decision to charge for access to stable builds of its service mesh code sparks objections and debate about open source governance, along with an official CNCF response.

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Some Linkerd service mesh users will soon have to pay

  Companies with more than 50 employees using Linkerd service mesh in production must pay Buoyant for stable releases starting in May. Open source users and analysts weigh in.

• February 15, 2024 15 Feb'24

  Dapr brings microservices principles to platform engineering

  With microservices now mainstream -- and past the trough of disillusionment -- a framework developed for them appeals to platform engineers with shared services consistency.

• February 12, 2024 12 Feb'24

  Observe ties in Snowflake to slash observability costs

  The emerging competitor to Dynatrace, Datadog and Splunk shuns AIOps, and its approach to data management and price tag intrigued one experienced customer.

• February 07, 2024 07 Feb'24

  GitOps vendor's close echoes wider funding, open-core woes

  Score one for IT orgs that rely solely on upstream code, as Flux CD sails on. But Weaveworks' demise points to larger issues for vendor sustainability, especially in open source.

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  TD Bank plans AIOps consolidation on Dynatrace SaaS

  The dream of zero-touch autoremediation remains alive for the bank as it prepares to go all in on Dynatrace SaaS for observability-driven IT automation.

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Dynatrace adds price tier, data pipeline amid cost crunch

  Dynatrace looks to accommodate observability data growth more affordably, but enterprise IT pros have many emerging alternatives to tackle this growing problem.

• January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

  Credit Karma preps 'Zero-touch' Argo Rollouts

  The Intuit subsidiary is in the process of moving to a homegrown event-driven progressive delivery platform and has already contributed some related code upstream.

• January 16, 2024 16 Jan'24

  Log management discipline saves ERP company $3M

  IT ops pros at a SaaS provider made a set of simple changes to log management over the last two years and reaped substantial cost benefits.

• January 16, 2024 16 Jan'24

  Ex-Datadog, AWS exec steers Elastic's observability strategy

  Elastic's observability GM, hired away from Datadog in October, looks to tie the company's search analytics prowess in with generative AI and OpenTelemetry trends.

• January 11, 2024 11 Jan'24

  Analysts anticipate fresh wave of enterprise technology M&A

  CI/CD vendor Harness acquired Armory, reports surfaced of private equity takeover talks for PagerDuty, and that's just the start of more M&A to come, industry experts predict.

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  Cloud and observability tools help global first responders

  How an NGO 'Uber for ambulances' service used observability tools from New Relic to improve AWS-based app performance under life-and-death circumstances.

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Cisco Security Cloud adds Isovalent for multi-cloud networks

  The commercial backer of open source networking and security projects Cilium and Tetragon comes under Cisco's control for cloud-native network security.

• December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

  Server-side Wasm to-do list lengthens for 2024

  Server-side WebAssembly hype peaked in late 2022, but a year later, its path to general availability for key features remains long and cloud portability alternatives are emerging.

• December 19, 2023 19 Dec'23

  DevSecOps pros prep for GenAI upheavals in 2024

  Generative AI models have been a hot topic of discussion in 2023, but their real-world impact on each of the major IT disciplines is just beginning.

• December 15, 2023 15 Dec'23

  When FinOps met devx at Capital One

  Capital One has kept cloud costs flat as its infrastructure grows, and now looks to share lessons learned -- including the subtle art of devx -- through the FinOps Foundation.

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  SUSE Rancher Kubernetes regroups amid platform trend

  It's been a year of seismic shifts for SUSE's Rancher Kubernetes management products as market buzz shifts to platform engineering, forcing changes in strategy heading into 2024.

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  IBM engineers hatch Linux Foundation HashiCorp Vault fork

  IBM engineers working on Open Horizon within the Linux Foundation begin a Vault fork as challenges continue for HashiCorp, which also addressed Terraform Cloud pricing angst.

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  Geek gift guide 2023: Security first, at home and on the go

  The COVID-19 public health emergency officially ended in 2023, but the threat of cyberattacks grew. Geeks had security on their minds, along with home comforts and travel gear.

• November 17, 2023 17 Nov'23

  IT pros wary as Microsoft Copilot juggernaut gains steam

  Microsoft is now 'The Copilot company,' along with GitHub. But concerns linger about the accuracy of AI-generated results, code lineage and long-term job security.

• November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23

  Logistics firm taps Netflix Conductor service to manage AI

  SPI Logistics looks to a microservices orchestration service provider founded by the creators of Netflix Conductor as it prepares to weave AI into developer workflows.

• November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23

  Veteran platform engineers share lessons learned, wish lists

  Platform engineering is the new DevOps, but few companies have reached maturity; reps from early adopter orgs shared tips, caveats and a call to action at KubeCon.

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  Generative AI brings changes to cloud-native platforms

  Generative AI took over tech in 2023, and cloud-native platforms are no exception. The need to support LLMs is already affecting CNCF projects, including Kubernetes.

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  Intel exec affixes OpenSSF, CNCF open source security efforts

  Intel's Arun Gupta, now governing board chair of both the CNCF and OpenSSF, discusses his plans to bring all three organizations together to improve open source security.

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  Behind the scenes, Spotify's Backstage a work in progress

  Spotify-created Backstage, now a CNCF project, is popular as enterprises add developer portals to internal platforms, but setup is hard, and getting dev buy-in can be even harder.

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  IT pros size up Microsoft Radius app developer platform

  As the platform engineering era dawns, enterprises seek better ways to tie apps to distributed infrastructure across clouds. But can Azure's owner build multi-cloud consensus?

• October 26, 2023 26 Oct'23

  LaunchDarkly feature management adds built-in workflows

  Large enterprises use feature management to cope with traffic spikes and speed up releases but must plan carefully to avoid technical debt. LaunchDarkly updates could help.

• October 26, 2023 26 Oct'23

  Rancher founders' new venture recasts Kubernetes management

  While Rancher focused on simplifying Kubernetes management, Acorn Labs looks to remove it entirely from developer workflows by embedding it within a new kind of application image.

• October 25, 2023 25 Oct'23

  Generative AI gets AIOps closer to ultimate goal

  BigPanda's generative AI-driven root cause analysis keeps it at crux of IHG's AIOps. Glean's natural language processing and suggestions will free up time for Cruise devx team.

• October 18, 2023 18 Oct'23

  Prisma Cloud analytics, automation boost DevSecOps speed

  Prisma Cloud's Darwin update looks to address DevSecOps communication and velocity lags with centralized analytics and by ditching tickets for automated pull requests.

• October 12, 2023 12 Oct'23

  Pulumi, HashiCorp competition expands to developer platforms

  Developer platform choices for enterprise IT continue to proliferate as infrastructure-as-code rivals rush to create tools targeting platform engineers.

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Exec: Key new HashiCorp Terraform feature enabled by BSL

  HashiCorp Terraform Stacks will be available in the free Community Edition in part due to development funded by its recent license change, one company official says.

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Terraform Registry TOS change stokes open source ire

  Community members allege that HashiCorp quietly changed the terms of service for its Terraform Registry in order to complicate efforts to fork the code.

• September 27, 2023 27 Sep'23

  Now a graduated CNCF project, Istio contests complexity rep

  Boasting a broader contributor base, including Microsoft, and with service mesh on the verge of going fully mainstream, Istio advocates look to shake the project's early image.

• September 21, 2023 21 Sep'23

  IT pros react to blockbuster $28B Cisco-Splunk deal

  Cisco goes through with its long-rumored acquisition of Splunk for security and observability. But the two aren't necessarily a perfect fit, according to some industry observers.

• September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23

  Linux Foundation ups ante on HashiCorp, hosts Terraform fork

  All eyes are on HashiCorp's response now that a community-driven fork of its Terraform infrastructure as code tool has been officially relaunched as a Linux Foundation project.

• September 14, 2023 14 Sep'23

  CloudBees scales its Jenkins CI, previews SaaS platform

  About a year after acquiring ReleaseIQ, CloudBees prepares the fruits of its integration for launch and adds long-awaited scale-out to its commercial version of Jenkins.

• September 14, 2023 14 Sep'23

  Generative AI emerges for DevSecOps, with some qualms

  New and developing tools use natural language processing to assist DevSecOps workflows, but concerns linger among developers about security risks as well.

• September 13, 2023 13 Sep'23

  Meet MLSecOps: Industry calls for new measures to secure AI

  Open source security, already in the software supply chain spotlight, must expand to include AI models, according to the OpenSSF and DevSecOps vendor JFrog.

• September 12, 2023 12 Sep'23

  Cisco Full-Stack Observability draws on channel clout

  Cisco's latest tie-in between app security and observability doesn't break new ground, but the vendor can use its network security cachet and partners to woo enterprise buyers.

• September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

  Server-side WebAssembly takes shape, but faces challenges

  Server-side Wasm's release next quarter will provide a cleaner way to connect apps, followed by further improvements in early 2024. Will it be enough to convince skeptics?

• August 25, 2023 25 Aug'23

  OpenTF begins HashiCorp Terraform fork, pledges donation

  The vendor-led group says it wants to donate a fork based on the latest open source version of the infrastructure as code tool to a foundation, ideally the Linux Foundation or CNCF.

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  VMware, Cisco prep generative AI for SecOps

  Generative AI has the potential to go beyond identifying anomalies in known data to create new information, such as incident summaries or security policies -- as well as new risks.

• August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

  VMware Tanzu portfolio reshuffled ahead of Broadcom close

  VMware Tanzu incorporates Aria AIOps and FinOps products as a $69 billion acquisition by Broadcom looms, putting the product line's future in question.

• August 17, 2023 17 Aug'23

  Vendor-led group vows to fork HashiCorp Terraform

  HashiCorp Terraform is a flashpoint of contention in the wake of the vendor's move to a Business Source License, including allegations that it ignored open source contributions.

• August 14, 2023 14 Aug'23

  Confusion mounts amid HashiCorp open source change

  Ripple effects from HashiCorp's switch to BSL spread through the industry, raising questions among enterprise users and trepidation about the future of corporate open source.

• August 11, 2023 11 Aug'23

  HashiCorp open source change targets competitors

  HashiCorp moves to a Business Source License for all its future product releases that prohibits use for commercial purposes, renewing questions about open core business models.

• August 03, 2023 03 Aug'23

  IT pros mull observability tools, devx and generative AI

  Observability as a common language for both developers and operations teams still has plenty of room for improvement in the era of platform engineering, according to experts.

• August 01, 2023 01 Aug'23

  Experts expect Sumo Logic match post-New Relic acquisition

  New Relic and Sumo Logic were both taken private by the same firm, as consolidation -- and attrition -- continues among observability tools.

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  Enterprises rework log analytics to cut observability costs

  Organizations such as Netflix could be a harbinger of an observability cost crisis, where monitoring cloud-native apps comprises an untenable portion of operational costs.

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  Industry tackles observability's data management problems

  Enterprises and the vendors they buy from have begun to fundamentally rethink data management for observability, including a new startup with close ties to Cisco.

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Dell Moogsoft AIOps buy could start filling gaps post-VMware

  Dell's purchase of Moogsoft this week could help it regain some enterprise software appeal it lost when it spun out VMware. But the future is unclear for Moogsoft users.

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Chainguard automates SBOMs, but has Images-based agenda

  Container images, that is. Chainguard Enforce now automates SBOMs, but execs and an early customer say they aren't the ultimate answer to software supply chain security.

• July 18, 2023 18 Jul'23

  Splunk AI update adds specialized models for SecOps tasks

  Splunk AI updates this week included specialized models for SecOps that detect and automatically respond to common issues such as DNS exfiltration and suspicious processes.

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  Cued by breach postmortems, fintech refines zero trust

  In a quest to continuously improve, Mercury's security leader takes inspiration from other companies' lessons learned, then updates tools and practices accordingly.

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Banks dump Terraform for Crossplane infrastructure as code

  Two EU banks favor Crossplane's reconciliation approach over Terraform's dependency graph, saying the former hastens deployments -- with a few migration caveats.

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  HashiCorp Vault to expand in DevSecOps with BluBracket buy

  HashiCorp expands Vault's focus to include DevSecOps with the acquisition of a secrets scanning startup, setting the stage for a potential showdown with Microsoft and GitHub.

• June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23

  Chef founder's new venture: IT infrastructure digital twins

  System Initiative, out in private beta this week, visualizes complex IT environments in digital simulations where users can test updates before real-world deployments.

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  United Airlines clears CI/CD pipelines for takeoff

  In an industry heavily affected by pandemic disruptions, United Airlines brought in a new orchestration tool to navigate fluctuating software delivery requirements.

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  CISA SBOM standards efforts stymied by confusion, inertia

  Efforts to establish SBOM standards and guidance have progressed, but unanswered questions persist -- including how the federal government plans to enforce its own requirements.

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  HashiCorp Vault trims SaaS; Boundary hooks up Enterprise

  HashiCorp Vault's appeal to a broader field of users gets a boost from a new entry-level cloud service, while a new Boundary Enterprise targets the high end of the market.

• June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23

  AWS shuffles DevSecOps deck with CodeGuru Security SAST

  A new DevSecOps service links AWS security code scanning to third-party pipeline tools, potentially a shot at GitHub Copilot that increases overlap with AWS SAST partners.

• June 08, 2023 08 Jun'23

  Sysdig CNAPP runtime threat detection wins over BigCommerce

  Sysdig's fast, comprehensive data collection, now part of a larger CNAPP product, sealed the deal with the e-commerce company. Next, it might replace vulnerability management tools.

• June 05, 2023 05 Jun'23

  Atlassian cloud preps threat tool as security boss departs

  Atlassian Beacon shores up cloud security as it adds transparency around security issues, but the chief trust officer role at the company is also changing hands.