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Elastic adds Prometheus ingestion & PromQL in Kibana
Virtualisation

Elastic adds Prometheus ingestion & PromQL in Kibana

Elastic brings native Prometheus ingestion and PromQL to Kibana in technical preview, aiming to simplify incident response for SREs.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Last week
Komodor to host AI SRE summit on ops & reliability
Virtualisation

Komodor to host AI SRE summit on ops & reliability

Komodor set to host AI SRE summit as cloud teams weigh practical gains from automation against added risk, cost and operational complexity.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week
Datadog launches GPU Monitoring to curb AI cloud costs
DevOps

Datadog launches GPU Monitoring to curb AI cloud costs

Datadog rolls out GPU Monitoring worldwide as AI teams face mounting pressure to pinpoint idle chips, slow models and rising cloud spend.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last week
Gigamon launches AI tools as observability market grows
Virtualisation

Gigamon launches AI tools as observability market grows

Gigamon rolls out AI traffic intelligence and agentic observability software as IDC sees the network monitoring market reaching USD $4.39 billion by 2029.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week
Datadog launches GPU Monitoring to cut AI compute costs
Software-as-a-Service

Datadog launches GPU Monitoring to cut AI compute costs

Datadog rolls out GPU Monitoring worldwide as AI teams race to rein in soaring compute bills and spot idle capacity across model workloads.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last week
Google unveils Virgo Network for next-gen AI workloads
Hyperscale

Google unveils Virgo Network for next-gen AI workloads

Google launches Virgo Network to link 134,000 TPU 8t chips, promising faster AI training and lower latency across its data centres.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Last week
Google unveils separate TPU chips for training & inference
Virtualisation

Google unveils separate TPU chips for training & inference

Google splits its latest AI silicon into dedicated training and serving chips, promising faster model building and cheaper inference for agents.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week
Exclusive: Grafana Lab's Jen Villa on targeting the AI observability gap
Unified Communications

Exclusive: Grafana Lab's Jen Villa on targeting the AI observability gap

Grafana Labs unveils new AI observability and CLI tools as enterprises grapple with monitoring and controlling production AI systems at GrafanaCON 2026.

By Jake MacAndrew • 4 min read • Last week
Appdome adds backend Risk Intelligence APIs for IDAnchor
Cloud Security

Appdome adds backend Risk Intelligence APIs for IDAnchor

Appdome expands IDAnchor with Risk Intelligence APIs to feed backend fraud systems mobile threat history, identity data and AI risk scoring.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • This month
Artemis announces $70 million in seed funding for AI security
Firewalls

Artemis announces $70 million in seed funding for AI security

Artemis lands $70 million as investors back AI-driven cyber defence platform for real-time threat detection and response.

By Catherine Knowles • 5 min read • This month
AI code needs production debugging, Lightrun report finds
DevOps

AI code needs production debugging, Lightrun report finds

Lightrun says 43% of AI-generated code still needs production debugging, with leaders warning that limited runtime visibility is slowing adoption.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • This month
Dynatrace to buy Bindplane in telemetry pipeline push
DevOps

Dynatrace to buy Bindplane in telemetry pipeline push

Dynatrace agrees to buy Bindplane to expand telemetry pipelines, aiming to cut ingest costs and give customers greater control over observability data.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • This month
NeuBird AI launches ops agent, raises USD $19.3 million
DevOps

NeuBird AI launches ops agent, raises USD $19.3 million

NeuBird AI expands beyond incident response with a production ops agent and Falcon engine as it secures USD $19.3 million in new funding.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • This month
Cloudflare, WatchGuard warn cloud security assumptions fail
Firewalls

Cloudflare, WatchGuard warn cloud security assumptions fail

Cloudflare and WatchGuard urge organisations to rethink cloud defences as rising identity attacks, AI risks and quantum threats expose weak spots.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 5 min read • This month
Gigamon leads deep observability market as AI traffic surges
Firewalls

Gigamon leads deep observability market as AI traffic surges

Gigamon takes 51% of deep observability market as AI traffic drives 18% growth and pushes the segment towards USD $2.1 billion by 2030.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • This month
Fenix24 launches Argos99 as standalone resilience software
Software-as-a-Service

Fenix24 launches Argos99 as standalone resilience software

Fenix24 has turned Argos99 into a standalone SaaS platform, giving customers continuous asset visibility and dependency mapping to speed ransomware recovery.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Last month
F5 & Forcepoint join to secure enterprise AI systems
Firewalls

F5 & Forcepoint join to secure enterprise AI systems

F5 and Forcepoint have teamed up to link data governance with live runtime controls, closing security gaps across enterprise AI lifecycles.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Last month
Cork Cyber launches AI tool to catch MSP blind spots
Disaster Recovery

Cork Cyber launches AI tool to catch MSP blind spots

Cork Cyber adds AI-powered asset analysis to help MSPs spot security gaps, zombie records and wasted licences across crowded tool stacks.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Last month
Omnissa study finds AI surge & endpoint security gaps
Data Protection

Omnissa study finds AI surge & endpoint security gaps

Omnissa warns AI tools are surging across workplace devices while patching, encryption and stability gaps widen, especially in regulated sectors.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Last month