Sumo Logic expands into South Korea
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Sumo Logic announced its expansion into South Korea through a new AWS Availability Zone in Seoul. This will enable organizations and existing customers in the region to fuel DevSecOps through log analytics. In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the new deployment will support the region's data compliance requirements and customers' growing need for da...
Cybersecurity performance optimization updates from Logpoint
Friday, February 2, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Logpoint is releasing new capabilities to its Converged SIEM platform, enhancing threat detection and security operations and streamlining case management. Organizations can focus on essential security matters with the new capabilities by reducing workload, simplifying automation, and freeing up resources.
The new release delivers increased system stability and ...
Cybersecurity AI trends in 2024 according to Edgio
Thursday, December 21, 2023 by Richard Harris
Looking ahead to 2024 and beyond, it is clear that the cybersecurity skills gap will only continue to widen. However, by leveraging AI tools and investing in the development of skilled cybersecurity professionals who can work effectively with these tools, organizations can better protect their networks and data from cyber threats and ensure they remain resilient in an i...
AI performance monitoring from Datadog and Vertex AI
Thursday, November 16, 2023 by Richard Harris
Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, announced an expanded strategic partnership with Google Cloud, which enables Google Cloud customers to proactively observe and secure their cloud-native and hybrid applications within Datadog’s unified platform. As part of the expanded partnership and integrations, Datadog is one of the fi...
Kubernetes data collection feature released from Sumo Logic
Friday, November 10, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Sumo Logic, the SaaS log analytics platform, announced the availability of its HELM Chart V4 feature to fully unify data collection as part of its continued commitment to OpenTelemetry (OTel). Organizations can now package, configure, and deploy applications and services on Kubernetes clusters with OpenTelemetry as a default to simplify the collection of metrics, events...
OneSignal to delete inactive app users by October 31st unless you pay
Thursday, October 12, 2023 by Richard Harris
OneSignal, a company that provides a push notification service for mobile and web applications, just announced they are going to start deleting subscribers that are in-active for over 18 months unless you choose a paid subscription plan.
In an email to developers, they said: "If you'd like to retain all your push subscriptions (players), you can upgrade...
PCI DSS JavaScript compliance tool free from Jscrambler
Thursday, June 29, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Jscrambler announced the launch and immediate availability of its free PCI DSS JavaScript Compliance Tool to ensure granular and flexible capacity to meet the stringent new requirements introduced by version 4.0 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS v4.0). This free assessment tool provides organizations of all sizes with clarity and si...
Using blockchain to grow your business
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 by Mark Kaley
By now, almost everyone who spends time in the tech space knows that blockchain technology is having a moment. It is a digital technology that has gained prominence in recent years, especially concerning the cryptocurrency industry.
How you could be using blockchain to grow your business
Blockchain technology is not just for tech-savvy bitcoin traders, however. Th...
Change Data Capture adapter launches
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Push Technology has announced the launch of a new Change Data Capture (CDC) Adapter. The adapter is particularly appropriate for event-driven use cases in IoT transportation data, global equity/derivative exchange market data, and retail and eCommerce.
The Diffusion Platform-Gateway has an array of adapters to capture all forms of data feeds, the latest addition to i...
EraCloud launches from Era Software
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 by Richard Harris
Era Software, the company that helps enterprises observe cloud services and infrastructures, has announced the general availability of EraCloud, a software as a service (SaaS)-based offering that includes the EraSearch observability and analytics platform optimized for real-time, low-cost log management. In addition to EraSearch, EraCloud features administrative functio...
Kubernetes operations platform gets more funding
Thursday, September 2, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Rafay helps platform teams move beyond traditional Kubernetes cluster management to streamlined Kubernetes operations for modern applications.
Rafay Systems Kubernetes operations platform gets $25M in funding
Rafay Systems, the platform for Kubernetes Operations, has announced a $25 million Series B funding round led by ForgePoint Capital, with participation from ...
Increase developer productivity with webhooks from CircleCI
Thursday, September 2, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
CircleCI, the continuous integration, and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform have announced CircleCI webhooks, a feature that provides software engineering teams the ability to build integrations that react to CircleCI job and workflow status notifications.
How to increase developer productivity with webhooks from CircleCI
Research shows that the performance lev...
Improving cloud security practices for DevOps teams
Thursday, August 26, 2021 by Richard Harris
Technology integration allows customers to securely leverage existing keys, secrets, tokens, and certificates into declarative CI/CD pipelines and ease the management of HashiCorp Vault infrastructure and security practices.
Opsera and HashiCorp partner with plans on improving cloud security practices for DevOps teams
Opsera, the Continuous Orchestration platform ...
Sumo Logic launches new capabilities
Thursday, July 29, 2021 by Richard Harris
Sumo Logic has announced new capabilities that augment analytics-powered use cases and capture the end-user experience as part of its Observability solution. As the requirements for modern application Observability push past the limits of traditional, siloed APM, monitoring, and logging tools, Sumo Logic is continuously investing to address the evolving needs of custome...
env0 updates infrastructure automation platform
Monday, May 3, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
env0 has announced updates to its Infrastructure Automation Platform, some of which include Bitbucket Server integration for continuous deployment and plan on pull requests and integration with Module Registry, allowing users to save all of their modules in a single location so they can be quickly recalled for other deployments. One of the more significant enhancements ...
LinearB secures $16 million in Series A funding
Thursday, March 11, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
LinearB announced $16 million in Series A funding to fundamentally change the way dev teams operate. The new investment was led by Battery Ventures, and includes existing investors 83North and Ariel Maislos, and new investor TechAviv Founder Partners. The investment brings LinearB’s total funding to $21 million.
Launched in 2019, LinearB offers a new approach t...
Siren platform can now be deployed on top of elastic cloud service
Monday, March 8, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Siren announced the release of Siren 11.1. The latest version of Siren focuses on ease of use and control, with new functionality simplifying many day-to-day tasks for the analyst and business user. Usability has been addressed with the addition of a new Search UI which is also compatible with mobile devices. In terms of organizational control, a new deep audit fea...
LinearB and Clubhouse partner to help software project delivery
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 by Richard Harris
LinearB and Clubhouse announced a partnership to help software development teams continuously improve project delivery by providing a complete picture of product and engineering lifecycles. Technical integration between the products will offer dev teams detailed project visibility and team-based metrics by correlating data across projects, code, Git activity and release...
Game development and Live Ops are evolving
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 by Richard Harris
We recently caught up with Carbonated and AWS Game Tech to discuss how Carbonated’s custom-built, live ops platform Carbyne enables game developers to bring fresh content to players in real-time, without engineering support or an office-based workforce.
While Carbonated is a relatively small gaming studio, they have the tools to become a major player among the ...
Opsera launches continuous orchestration approach to devops
Thursday, October 15, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Opsera launched a new approach for software delivery that combines choice of any CI/CD tools with no-code automation across the DevOps lifecycle. By orchestrating tools, pipelines and insights through a single platform, Opsera speeds time to deployment, helps optimize resources and provides a holistic cross-functional perspective with KPIs that better correlate technica...
Instaclustr adds Kafka Connect to Managed Open Source Data Solutions
Monday, June 15, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Instaclustr announced the general availability of Instaclustr Managed Kafka Connect. This newest addition to the Instaclustr Managed Platform enables seamless data movement between Apache Kafka and other data systems at scale. Kafka Connect joins Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, and Elasticsearch as another fast, proven, resilient, and highly flexible open ...
Humio joins IBM Edge Ecosystem
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Already a member of IBM’s Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management ecosystem, Humio is pleased to announce it is now part of the IBM Edge Application Manager Ecosystem, a platform designed to remove the complexity of the scale and variability of edge deployments, an initiative designed to help enterprises capture the opportunities of edge computing with a variety...
Self-learning technology for conversational AI from Boost ai
Thursday, March 26, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Boost.ai has released a self-learning technology for conversational AI. Developed and offered exclusively by boost.ai, self-learning AI overcomes the ‘cold start’ challenges of building and managing virtual agents with an automated system that intelligently analyzes and recommends both new conversational dialogs, as well as suggestions to improve existi...
LogicMonitor acquires Unomaly
Thursday, January 16, 2020 by Austin Harris
LogicMonitor has acquired Unomaly. The acquisition accelerates LogicMonitor’s AIOps roadmap and will help ITOps teams quickly gain the intelligent insights needed to determine when and how to embrace automation to resolve IT infrastructure issues before they disrupt the business. Additionally, this will help DevOps teams access insights derived from unexpecte...
MuleSoft announces new tools
Monday, November 25, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
MuleSoft, the provider of the platform for building application networks, has announced new tools, pre-packaged connectors, and learning modules to empower anyone to compose connected customer experiences, without writing a single line of code. Now anyone can become an Integration Trailblazer and easily connect data sources – wherever that data resides; accel...
Instana announces new capabilities
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 by Austin Harris
Instana announced new capabilities that make it the only application management solution that can jump right into a log analysis tool with all context of the application and component under investigation.
“IT teams responsible for deploying and maintaining today’s mission critical applications must react quickly, especially when attacking service issues,&...
Splunk acquires software company Omnition
Friday, September 6, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Splunk, a stealth-mode SaaS company that works in distributed tracing and improving monitoring across microservices applications recently acquired SignalFx, and now they have acquired the software company Omnition.
"Today, we’re happy to announce that Splunk has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Omnition, a stealth-mo...
Homeis raises $12M to help immigrants across the world
Thursday, August 22, 2019 by Richard Harris
Homeis, the first digital platform for immigrant communities around the world, today announced its $12 million Series A funding round led by Canaan and Spark Capital. Since its founding in 2017, Homeis has served hundreds of thousands of immigrants in its launched communities and will expand to serve all immigrant communities in the U.S. and across the globe, starting w...
Elastic Stack 7.3 brings maps and more
Monday, August 5, 2019 by Austin Harris
Elastic has delivered Elastic Stack 7.3, which includes some very cool new features such as data frames, anomaly detection, elastic maps, and more. Check out all the highlights of the latest release below.
Elastic Stack 7.3 highlights
Data frames: a new feature that allows users to pivot their Elasticsearch data on the fly to create live entity-centric in...
MongoDB launches new version of core at MongoDB World 2019
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 by Richard Harris
MongoDB, Inc. announced the latest version of its core database at MongoDB World this year, MongoDB 4.2. Key features such as distributed transactions, field level encryption and an updated Kubernetes Operator raise MongoDB’s established reputation for supporting a wide variety of use cases for thousands of customers, which range from innovative cloud-native start...
Software flight recorder tech expands to U.S.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 by Richard Harris
Every year, trillions of dollars are lost due to software failures ($1.7 trillion in 2017 alone), and large, publicly traded companies lose billions in shareholder value on the first day that a failure is made public. Gartner estimates that network downtime alone can cost up to $5,600 per minute. With increasing complexity in software development, rapid testing and prod...
Running applications directly from Cohesity now possible
Monday, March 4, 2019 by Richard Harris
Cohesity announced new capabilities that empower enterprises to run applications from Cohesity as well as third parties directly on the Cohesity DataPlatform. This milestone is a big step forward in empowering enterprises to derive insights from their most valuable business asset, their data.
This is the first time that enterprises are able to run applications ...
Data science and the currency of the future
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 by Richard Harris
A recent study performed by IDC and Seagate forecasted that by 2025, global data will grow to 163 zettabytes. For scale, that’s approximately 1 trillion gigabytes per zettabyte. As the amount of available data grows, businesses are clamoring for larger and larger pieces of the pie. However, when it comes to leveraging data, success doesn’t rest on the quanti...
Kong Brain and Kong Immunity launches powered by AI and ML
Thursday, January 17, 2019 by Austin Harris
Kong Inc. has launched Kong Brain and Kong Immunity for its Kong Enterprise API platform. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the new, advanced features will help automate the entire API and service development lifecycle from pre-production to post-production to provide organizations with an intelligent, end-to-end API solution. By automating p...
What does the Kubernetes privilege escalation flaw mean
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 by Richard Harris
Bringing together powerful applications into containerized services that are open source can have their drawbacks, as recently discovered by the RedHat issued a critical Security Advisory and patches for CVE-2018-1002105, a privilege escalation flaw impacting Kubernetes.
Sumo Logic CSO, George Gerchow weighs in: "The Kubernetes vulnerability is a huge deal, even...