The Ansible open-source project was conceived at Red Hat Inc. a decade ago to reenvision the automation of IT operations and, eventually, drive the popularity of infrastructure as code. Coming off the COVID-induced hiatus for physical events, this year’s “AnsibleFest” was both a celebration of that 10-year milestone and, more importantly, a revelation of the ...

Initial public offerings in the technology space have slowed down of late. Thus, companies are feeling added pressure to deliver new value areas for their users to maintain revenue growth projections and attract fresh VC investment. Enterprise data intelligence company Alation Inc. is thriving on the value delivery front and, therefore, has been able to attract ...

Open source is where it’s at right now, with a lot of the segment’s technologies influencing the general direction of enterprise computing. Kubernetes, Ansible and TensorFlow are well-known names, but Konveyor — and its K8s migration ethos —  is now grabbing the spotlight. “It is one of the open-source modernization toolsets that are available right now,” ...

Time series databases evolved to replace relational databases due to their profound speed and efficiency advantages. It’s now become the de-facto database standard for today’s enterprises as they manage unprecedented swathes of free-flowing data across disparate infrastructures. But we’re at an inflection point, one that demands the innovation of existing TSDB technology to support new ...

Cyber resilience has risen in importance as a competitive differentiator for enterprises. With ransomware strikes on the rapid rise, organizations caught unaware stand to lose in multiple ways: from the financial to the reputational. So, how prepared are businesses to face this threat? And does the enterprise’s confidence match the realities that are present at ...

Companies, especially those reliant on cloud operations, often struggle with resource optimization and configuration. One of these examples is the automatic scaling of Kubernetes, a pain point that StormForge, which focuses on automated Kubernetes resource management, is working hard to alleviate for its customers. “We started out running our machine learning workloads and moving them into ...

Operations and infrastructure teams are demanding more of their observability solutions to stay ahead of the ongoing data sprawl. In response, Chronosphere Inc. has made key improvements to its cloud-native observability platform through feature additions — in the areas of efficacy, scalability and end-user simplicity. “Our product announcement this time is a pretty big refresh of ...

All of today’s popular software gained its vitalness by solving one or more crucial problems, and continuously evolving that solution. As we trudge into the operations-as-code era, Ansible might have the key to solving the organizational problem of scaling automation. “You’re seeing new things like sign-in code, making sure it’s trusted and verified,” said John Furrier (pictured, right), ...

Recent times already had companies accommodating the idea of automating processes wherever possible for efficiency. But, as economic downturns and cash crunches continue to strain corporate coffers, automation is needed more than ever for organizations to do more with less. “We’ve got exponential data growth and more architectural complexity than ever before,” said Daniel Newman (pictured), principal ...

As the open-source computing tide rose, Ansible — which exists under the Red Hat Inc. umbrella — was one of the prominent boats lifted. Now, as the project notches its 10-year milestone, it has made several announcements toward better integration into the existing cloud-native paradigm. “I think you’re gonna see a lot more of this ...