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Edera has created OpenPaX, an open source kernel patch that mitigates common memory safety errors in Linux. https://lnkd.in/eHT3GJiJ

The observability company Cloud Canaries Inc. has announced the launch of Observability Canaries, enabling teams to enhance their existing observability tools with OpenTelemetry. https://lnkd.in/eQKzTjTY

Kentik has released Cloud Latency Map, a free tool that provides insights into latency in over 100 different cloud regions around the world. https://lnkd.in/ecs3Guzw

Earlier this year, Lenovo and Cisco announced that they were collaborating to bring their customers workplace solutions that incorporate generative AI and improve enterprise productivity. Now, the two companies are revealing several new offerings that have come about through this partnership. https://lnkd.in/efath-4n

For organizations still struggling with security and IT alignment, communication silos and misaligned priorities present a lot more risk for business than failing to keep pace with modern technology shifts. We know that the ramifications of these two teams not working together can be detrimental at best and catastrophic at worst. Here are a few tips as you look to overcome communication barriers, align objectives, and streamline collaboration to drive the business forward.  https://lnkd.in/eh_XRsEY

Digital adoption platforms (DAPs) are emerging as a cornerstone of the ITSM employee experience. DAPs act as an overlay on top of enterprise applications to provide in-app training and contextual guidance to end users, like reminders, alerts, announcements, and information bubbles, delivered right when the end user encounters friction, within the app, and precisely at the point of need. In this article, we explore the idea that DAPs might be critical for supporting smoother IT change management processes. https://lnkd.in/en_eJQpP

It's Cybersecurity Awareness Month! To celebrate, in the latest episode of our podcast, we spoke with Jim McGann, vice president of strategic partnerships at Index Engines, a company that detects data corruption from ransomware. We discuss: ➡ What Cybersecurity Awareness Month is and why it's celebrated ➡ The biggest security threats IT teams are dealing with today ➡ How IT teams can stay up-to-date on the latest security threats

The average cost of IT outages has increased to $1.9 million per hour, with the median downtime for a high-impact outage being 77 hours. https://lnkd.in/dJ-qcNmk

Red Hat has announced the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), its platform for developing, testing, and running LLMs. Notable updates in RHEL AI 1.2 include: ▪ Support for hardware accelerators from Lenovo and AMD ▪ Periodic checkpointing ▪ The ability to use PyTorch Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) for multi-phase training https://lnkd.in/esYic5h3

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that KubeEdge has graduated 👩🎓 KubeEdge is a platform that brings the container orchestration and scheduling capabilities of Kubernetes to the edge. It was first open-sourced in 2018 by Huawei Cloud, joined the CNCF Sandbox in 2019, and became an incubating project in 2020. “KubeEdge started with a vision to extend cloud native technology to the edge and foster a robust edge-cloud computing ecosystem. Today, it has been adopted across numerous innovative and unforeseen fields. This achievement is a testament to the incredible creativity and dedication of our contributors, whose efforts have driven the project’s success,” said Kevin Wang and Yin Ding, KubeEdge TSC members, in the foundation’s announcement. “Graduation marks a new beginning, and we are excited to explore even greater possibilities for the entire cloud native ecosystem.” https://lnkd.in/d3Mdv2jV