Observability

Anyscale Teams Up With NVIDIA to Scale Generative AI Models Into Production

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Monday, March 18, 2024

Anyscale’s integration with NVIDIA AI Enterprise will enhance the scalability of AI workloads, enabling training and deployment of larger and more complex models and support the optimization of smaller models for specific tasks.

Key Points: 
  • Anyscale’s integration with NVIDIA AI Enterprise will enhance the scalability of AI workloads, enabling training and deployment of larger and more complex models and support the optimization of smaller models for specific tasks.
  • “This enhanced integration with NVIDIA AI Enterprise makes it simpler than ever for customers to get access to cutting-edge infrastructure software and top-of-the-line compute resources to accelerate the production of generative AI models,” said Robert Nishihara, CEO of Anyscale.
  • "Enterprises need full stack computing to deliver low latency, high performance generative AI," said Justin Boitano, vice president, Enterprise Products at NVIDIA.
  • "The integration of NVIDIA NIM microservices with Anyscale's platform simplifies and accelerates generative AI development and deployment, bringing more efficiency to production AI."

Evolutio and Nobl9 Form a Strategic Partnership to Further Empower Cisco’s Full-Stack Observability Ecosystem Vision

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Two of Cisco’s leading partners in Full-Stack Observability, Nobl9 and Evolutio , announced today that they had formed a strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of the Cisco Observability Platform by bringing cutting-edge functionality to the Cisco ecosystem faster.

Key Points: 
  • Two of Cisco’s leading partners in Full-Stack Observability, Nobl9 and Evolutio , announced today that they had formed a strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of the Cisco Observability Platform by bringing cutting-edge functionality to the Cisco ecosystem faster.
  • Evolutio has demonstrated its expertise in the Cisco Observability Platform with custom-built modules that provide business process views.
  • By leveraging Cisco Observability Platform’s unique extensibility, Evolutio has built modules targeting revenue-impacting business flows for fintech, insurance, eCommerce, and manufacturing clients.
  • We’re thrilled to be working together and are confident this partnership helps Cisco Full-Stack Observability customers manage their environments.”
    To learn more about Evolutio, Nobl9 or their partnership, visit www.evolutiops.com and www.nobl9.com

Five9 Launches GenAI Studio, the First Enterprise-Ready Solution Offering Click-and-Customize Generative AI for the Contact Center

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Monday, March 25, 2024

GenAI Studio is a simple-to-use interface that will power all Five9 applications that use Generative AI models, starting with Agent Assist AI Summaries .

Key Points: 
  • GenAI Studio is a simple-to-use interface that will power all Five9 applications that use Generative AI models, starting with Agent Assist AI Summaries .
  • GenAI Studio also addresses organizational concerns around responsible AI with its ability to control the data that Generative AI can access and share.
  • Testing, Monitoring, and Observability: GenAI Studio provides Quality Management for Generative AI models in the contact center for more controlled outputs.
  • Powering all Five9 GenAI Applications: GenAI Studio will power all AI applications within Five9, starting with Agent Assist AI Summaries .

Riverbed Earns 5-Star Rating in 2024 CRN® Partner Program Guide

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Monday, March 25, 2024

Key Points: 
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240325385099/en/
    Riverbed channel program again earns a 5-star rating in 2024 CRN Partner Program Guide.
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    LinkedIn: Riverbed earns 5-Star rating in 2024 CRN Partner Program Guide: https://rvbd.ly/3TJAn8P
    The breadth and depth of support and resources technology vendors offer through their partner programs is a critical consideration for solution providers assessing which IT vendors, service providers, and distributors to team with in building world-class technology solutions.
  • For the 2024 Partner Program Guide, CRN evaluated vendors based on program requirements and offerings such as partner training and education, pre- and post-sales support, marketing programs and resources, technical support, and communication.
  • With CRN’s 2024 Partner Program Guide, solution providers can access deep insights into the unique strengths of each partner program and vendors who demonstrate dedication to their partner community.”

Grafana Labs Announces Updates to Kubernetes Monitoring Solution, Open Source Innovations, and Findings from 2024 Observability Survey

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

The company also released the findings from its second annual Observability Survey which provides insight into the evolving observability market.

Key Points: 
  • The company also released the findings from its second annual Observability Survey which provides insight into the evolving observability market.
  • With the new Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart, it’s easier to send metrics, logs, events, traces, and cost metrics to Grafana Cloud.
  • Kubernetes support in Beyla : Grafana Labs’ 2024 Observability Survey found that eBPF is one of the technologies respondents are most excited about.
  • Grafana Operator migration : Grafana Operator, the open source Kubernetes operator that helps you manage your Grafana instances within and outside of Kubernetes, will now officially be managed by Grafana Labs.

Polar Signals Announces Strategic Milestones: Secures $10.8M in Funding, Expands Board, and Launches AI-Driven Performance Optimizations

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

This financial achievement reflects the strong confidence investors and, crucially, customers have in Polar Signals’ vision and mission.

Key Points: 
  • This financial achievement reflects the strong confidence investors and, crucially, customers have in Polar Signals’ vision and mission.
  • In addition to the financial boost, Polar Signals is announcing the strategic expansion of its board.
  • Polar Signals also shares that Vercel has chosen Polar Signals Cloud as their continuous profiling platform.
  • Lastly, a significant innovation from Polar Signals is the introduction of AI-driven Performance Optimizations.

Observability Adoption Remains Nascent With Only 10% of Orgs Using 'Full Observability' -- Logz.io Survey

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

PARIS, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Europe — Logz.io, provider of Open 360™, the industry's easiest-to-use, most cost-efficient observability platform, shared today the results of its annual Observability Pulse survey (formerly known as the DevOps Pulse survey). The 2024 Observability Pulse Report reveals that observability is still an emergent practice on the maturity curve: Only one out of 10 organizations are utilizing full observability, that is, observing the real-time status of every component of the entire technology stack.

Key Points: 
  • Respondents to sixth-annual Observability Pulse survey cite 'lack of knowledge among teams' as the biggest challenge to gaining observability into cloud-native environments.
  • PARIS, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Europe — Logz.io , provider of Open 360™, the industry's easiest-to-use, most cost-efficient observability platform, shared today the results of its annual Observability Pulse survey (formerly known as the DevOps Pulse survey).
  • In 2024, the biggest challenge to gaining observability into cloud-native environments — cited by 48% of respondents — is lack of knowledge among the team.
  • The 2024 Observability Pulse survey compiles data from 500 respondents from organizations across the globe.

wasmCloud 1.0 Brings the WebAssembly Component Model to Enterprise

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

`wash build` components in Python, Javascript, .NET, C++, and more

Key Points: 
  • `wash build` components in Python, Javascript, .NET, C++, and more
    PARIS, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, EU), Production-ready and components-first, wasmCloud 1.0 brings WASI 0.2 and the WebAssembly (Wasm) Component Model to production environments.
  • wasmCloud 1.0 comes with several standard interfaces; wasi:cli for environment, wasi:runtime for configuration and wasi:http but any 0.2 component will work perfectly in wasmCloud.
  • wasmCloud supports signing components with ed25519 keys, allowing for offline verification of component identity and issuer.
  • Adobe and BMW have been running wasmCloud in production for some time, with new industry projects emerging all the time.

Selector Combines Generative AI and Native Monitoring Capabilities to Transform IT Operations

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Selector AI, the leading provider of network-aware AIOps, observability, and multi-domain analytics, today announced its Spring 2024 release. Innovations include a GenAI-powered network-oriented LLM, native full-stack monitoring capabilities, and event correlation with root cause analysis.

Key Points: 
  • Innovations include a GenAI-powered network-oriented LLM, native full-stack monitoring capabilities, and event correlation with root cause analysis.
  • The industry's first and only unified monitoring, observability, and multi-domain AIOps platform – Selector, provides a single pane of glass with key functionality that historically required multiple tools.
  • With this release, Selector can not only act on top of existing tools, but can directly collect configuration, metric, event, and log telemetry with its native monitoring capabilities.
  • "Operations teams have long struggled with tool sprawl in their pursuit of actionable monitoring and observability," said Kannan Kothandaraman, CEO at Selector.

MinIO Introduces Enterprise Object Store with Advanced Features Designed For Exascale Data Infrastructure

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- MinIO, the leader in high-performance object storage for AI, today announced the MinIO Enterprise Object Store. This new product facilitates the creation and management of exabyte-scale data infrastructure for commercial customers. Building on MinIO's technical leadership in object storage, the MinIO Enterprise Object Store is expressly designed for the performance and scale challenges introduced by massive AI workloads.

Key Points: 
  • REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- MinIO , the leader in high-performance object storage for AI, today announced the MinIO Enterprise Object Store.
  • Building on MinIO's technical leadership in object storage, the MinIO Enterprise Object Store is expressly designed for the performance and scale challenges introduced by massive AI workloads.
  • The new features available in the MinIO Enterprise Object Store include:
    Catalog: The MinIO Enterprise Catalog feature solves the problem of object storage namespace and metadata search.
  • Key Management Server: The MinIO Enterprise Key Management Server is a highly available, operationally simple, KMS implementation optimized for massive data infrastructure.