Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon Q, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data.
Puppet by Perforce is introducing Admin as a Service for all Puppet Enterprise and Open-Source Puppet users.
Admin as a Service provides organizations with the ongoing long-term support of our certified Puppet Professionals to monitor, update, and remediate issues with their Puppet server.
“The persistent talent shortage we’re facing is a challenge that isn’t going away. Our teams are dedicated to relentlessly identifying new avenues to empower organizations to maximize the full potential of Puppet. Admin as a Service helps ensure IT Teams have the necessary resources to effectively prioritize critical business goals,” said Kapil Tandon, Vice President of Product Management at Puppet by Perforce.”
“We are seeing the trend firsthand, where organizations using Puppet or Open-Source Puppet are facing challenges due to limited internal resources. To address this, we have assembled a world-class team of experienced and knowledgeable Certified Puppet administrators dedicated to ensuring every customer's success.” said Beth Weinberger, VP of Professional Services at Puppet by Perforce.
As part of the larger set of Professional Services, the goal of this offering is to provide support to all Puppet Users even in situations when they are unable to hire or train new team members helping ensure the business continuity of critical IT operation functions.
Industry News
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4, the latest version of the enterprise Linux platform.
ActiveState unveiled Get Current, Stay Current (GCSC) – a continuous code refactoring service that deals with breaking changes so enterprises can stay current with the pace of open source.
Lineaje released Open-Source Manager (OSM), a solution to bring transparency to open-source software components in applications and proactively manage and mitigate associated risks.
Synopsys announced the availability of Polaris Assist, an AI-powered application security assistant on the Synopsys Polaris Software Integrity Platform®.
Backslash Security announced the findings of its GPT-4 developer simulation exercise, designed and conducted by the Backslash Research Team, to identify security issues associated with LLM-generated code. The Backslash platform offers several core capabilities that address growing security concerns around AI-generated code, including open source code reachability analysis and phantom package visibility capabilities.
Azul announced that Azul Intelligence Cloud, Azul’s cloud analytics solution -- which provides actionable intelligence from production Java runtime data to dramatically boost developer productivity -- now supports Oracle JDK and any OpenJDK-based JVM (Java Virtual Machine) from any vendor or distribution.
F5 announced new security offerings: F5 Distributed Cloud Services Web Application Scanning, BIG-IP Next Web Application Firewall (WAF), and NGINX App Protect for open source deployments.
Code Intelligence announced a new feature to CI Sense, a scalable fuzzing platform for continuous testing.
WSO2 is adding new capabilities for WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes (WSO2 APK), and WSO2 Micro Integrator.
OpenText™ announced a solution to long-standing open source intake challenges, OpenText Debricked Open Source Select.
ThreatX has extended its Runtime API and Application Protection (RAAP) offering to provide always-active API security from development to runtime, spanning vulnerability detection at Dev phase to protection at SecOps phase of the software lifecycle.
Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, codenamed “Noble Numbat.”
JFrog announced a new machine learning (ML) lifecycle integration between JFrog Artifactory and MLflow, an open source software platform originally developed by Databricks.
Copado announced the general availability of Test Copilot, the AI-powered test creation assistant.