From Monoliths to Microservices to AI-Native: The Next Evolution of Distributed Systems
The architectural patterns that powered the microservices revolution are showing their age. When my peers and I began designing distributed systems for companies like Cisco, Amazon, and Palo Alto Networks, we optimized for stateless, horizontally scalable services with predictable resource consumption. AI workloads follow a different set of rules. Transformer architectures demand frequent synchronization of …
Lightrun Launches AI SRE With Live Dynamic Runtime Context
The reliability of software has grown as an issue with the massive adoption of AI agents and code assistants, moving developers from coding to issue remediation and the development bottleneck to runtime. Lightrun, a leader in software reliability, today announced a real-time AI SRE built on live runtime context, allowing AI agents and engineering teams …
Reimagining Artifact Management for DevSecOps: Harness Artifact Registry GA
Harness today is announcing the general availability of Artifact Registry, representing a deliberate shift in how artifact management should work in secure software delivery. For years, teams have accepted a strange reality: you build in one system, deploy in another, and manage artifacts somewhere else entirely. CI/CD pipelines run in one place, artifacts live in …
Crusoe Launches Unified Operations Platform for High-Performance AI Workloads
Crusoe today announced the launch of Command Center, a unified operations platform that provides a data foundation for massive AI workloads and increases the resilience of the AI stack. Command Center creates a single source of truth that provides deep observability into AI workloads for monitoring, diagnosing and optimizing AI workloads, the company said in …
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Why Legacy Modernization is the Mandatory Prerequisite for AI
AI adoption is accelerating across industries, but most organizations are failing to realize its full potential. According to Lucid’s AI Readiness Report, only 26% of organizations that have implemented AI agents rate them as completely successful. The difference between companies with successful AI implementation and those that struggle lies in the foundation upon which it’s built. …
The Modern PC Refresh Mandate: Replace Strategically, Repurpose Selectively
For years, IT leaders treated the PC refresh cycle as a fixed rule. Every three to five years, endpoints were replaced wholesale and the cycle reset. That approach worked when component pricing was predictable and supply chains were stable. Today’s market looks very different, and it demands a more intentional strategy. Rising memory costs, inconsistent …
NetBox Labs announces GA of NetBox Copilot to enhance IT automation
NetBox Labs, the commercial steward of the open-source NetBox project, has built a comprehensive platform around NetBox for network and infrastructure management. Today, the company is announcing the general availability of NetBox Copilot, an AI agent that sits inside the NetBox platform and enables organizations to interact with the NetBox data in natural language and …
The Case Against Single-Pane Management in Hybrid IT
As an IT leader, you are constantly balancing the need for operational efficiency with the demand for innovation. You likely look at your organization and see a fragmented landscape. On one side, you have the network operations team managing the physical backbone of your enterprise; the routers, switches, and firewalls that form the foundation of …
De-Risking AI Means New Infrastructure Security Patterns
Anthropic’s October research showing an AI model reproducing a real intrusion drew mixed reactions. Some questioned the framing and others questioned the intent, but most platform teams did not find the result surprising. Many are already expecting a significant security adjustment as AI workloads grow. AI systems are scaling faster than the security properties of …
Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 is now available
Red Hat is releasing the latest version of OpenShift, which is based on Kubernetes 1.34 and CRI-O 1.34. OpenShift 4.21’s new capabilities revolve around enabling companies to run AI training jobs, containerized microservices, and virtualized applications on the same infrastructure and with the same operational model. The company gave the example of a financial company …
Overcoming IT and OT integration challenges with Penguin Solutions fault-tolerant computing
While there are numerous benefits to bringing IT and OT together, achieving success requires thoughtfully addressing a number of challenges. Running virtual machines (VMs) in OT environments alongside containers in IT environments allows companies to combine the isolation and stability of VMs with the agility of containerized applications. However, both have different requirements that must …
Site reliability is becoming more about resilience, report finds
Site reliability is no longer proven by uptime alone, according to the results of The SRE Report 2026 issued by LogicMonitor through its recent acquisition of Catchpoint, which has run this report for eight years. “Reliability is becoming this idea of resilience. It’s about moving from uptime to performance to experience, from reliability to resilience,” …
12 new security vulnerabilities detected in OpenSSL using AI-driven discovery
Security researchers from AISLE have identified 12 new security vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, the widely adopted open-source library that underpins encryption, authentication and secure communications across the internet. The vulnerabilities are addressed in a coordinated OpenSSL security release published today, with patches now available to users and downstream software maintainers. According to its blog, the AISLE had …
AI Governance is the Next IT Battleground
AI has moved decisively from experimentation to execution. It now sits at the core of enterprise transformation strategies, reshaping how organizations think about performance, resilience, risk, and accountability. As AI becomes operational rather than exploratory, governance has emerged as the defining priority for IT and cloud infrastructure leaders tasked with running the digital backbone of …
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Virtual Machines and Containers: Better Together | Live Webinar
LIVE: WED, SEP 24 | In the rapidly evolving landscape of Edge Computing, organizations face challenges including connectivity issues, limited on-site IT capabilities, and the need for secure and scalable solutions. Join us for this webinar, as we explore how the combination of Stratus’ ztC Edge platform and a Kubernetes management solution provides a comprehensive, …
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NetOps with Broadcom – Microwebinar Series
In this microwebinar series with Broadcom, Jeremy Rossbach, Chief Technical Evangelist for NetOps, provides essential insights and actionable strategies for network operations and explores practical strategies to enhance network resilience and accountability, achieve advanced visibility across hybrid environments, and transition from basic monitoring to comprehensive network observability for optimized performance. …
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AI’s Impact on Network Engineering and Operations – Microwebinar Series
AI’s Impact on Network Engineering and Operations Join Phil Gervasi from Kentik for this insightful 15-minute microwebinar where we will dive straight into the essential aspects of AI and uncover the practical realities of its application in network engineering, netops, and network architecture. …
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AI meets Network: Now what?
There’s a lot of buzz about AI in networking, but it can’t be real…right? Join our webinar where we’ll explore both the potential and the limitations of AI, providing a balanced view on its practical applications. By the end of this webinar, you’ll have a clear understanding of where AI can genuinely add value and …
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4 Requirements for a Single Pane of Glass in IT Operations
AVAILABLE NOW | For years, technology vendors have promoted the ‘single pane of glass’ as a silver bullet for service-oriented management. The promise was simple: buy this mega-suite of tools and get a single view of your IT environment. Unfortunately, the promise of a single pane of glass for IT operations and management has resulted …
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ITOps Times Live! Microwebinar Series – Internet Resilience
WATCH THE FULL SERIES Every business today relies on the Internet for critical business operations, and IT professionals must ensure Internet Resilience for their company’s customers and workforce. But what does that mean and how can they monitor everything in the digital delivery chain when so much is out of their control? The answer: Internet Performance …
ITOps Times Newswire
- Abstract Launches AI-GEN Composable SIEM, Redefining the Future of Security Operations
- BlueCat introduces BlueCat Horizon, a SaaS-first Intelligent NetOps platform for cross-domain network operations
- Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of CyberArk to Secure the AI Era
- Palo Alto Networks Completes Chronosphere Acquisition, Unifying Observability and Security for the AI Era
- Userful’s Infinity Platform Achieves Breakthroughs in Security, Operational Awareness, and Response
- BMC Advances Business-Driven Automation and Mainframe Transformation with AI-Powered Innovations
- Harness introduces Human-Aware Change Agent for its AI SRE unified response system.
- Battery Data Alliance Project Announces The Battery Data Format (BDF): A New Open Standard for Battery Data Interoperability
- Coralogix Announces U.S. Department of Education Sponsorship for FedRAMP Authorization
- BellSoft’s Hardened Images Set New Standard for Container Security
- Opsera announces partnership with Koantek to accelerate Databricks adoption
- Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Chronosphere, Next-Gen Observability Leader, for the AI Era
