IT automation
As the Energy Industry Transforms, AI Automation is Its Next Opportunity
The global energy system is in transition – from renewable energy generation to electric vehicles – and this is leading to an increasingly diverse, integrated and electrified power network. ...Full Article
Red Hat Buys Container Startup CoreOS
Red Hat is expanding its push into the nascent micro-services and container orchestration sector with the acquisition of plucky startup CoreOS. The acquisition announced Tuesday (Jan. 30) is valued ...Full Article
Survey: Security Risks Soar Along With Cloud Workloads
The shift from traditional datacenters to cloud infrastructure is exponentially expanding server workloads, thereby increasing enterprises' "attackable surface area" and, with it, security risks, a new vendor survey warns. ...Full Article
Puppet Pulls Strings on Expansion Plans, Makeover
IT automation specialist Puppet Labs is expanding its operations, launching the latest version of its flagship platform and shortening its name: Puppet Labs is now known simply as Puppet. ...Full Article
Puppet Labs Secures Rainy Day Loan, Plans Expansion
Global economic turmoil is prompting some IT executives to hedge their bets in the new year as they monitor China's slowdown while trying to divine whether stock markets are ...Full Article
New Security, Automation Tools Emerge for Containers
New approaches to automating the management of open source software, especially emerging Linux-based application containers, are arriving at a steady pace from key open-source players and startups formed over ...Full Article
Red Hat Integrating Newly Acquired DevOps Tools
Less than a week after announcing its acquisition of IT automation tool and DevOps specialist Ansible, Red Hat said it has closed the transaction and begun integrating the startup's ...Full Article
Red Hat Acquires DevOps, Automation Startup Ansible
The growing emphasis on DevOps and IT automation as vendors seek to provide "frictionless IT" to ease the transition to hybrid cloud infrastructure has prompted open source leader Red ...Full Article
NSA Contributes Security Tools For Puppet
IT automation specialist Puppet Labs has announced a new partner: The U.S. National Security Agency. Puppet Labs said Friday (June 19) that NSA is releasing to the open source ...Full Article
