Akamai Technologies has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Linode, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform provider.

Loft Labs announced a Plugin System & SDK for its open-source project vcluster, enabling the project’s user community and other software providers in the cloud-native space to customize the synchronization logic of the vcluster “syncer” component.

Nebulon has developed the Red Hat Ansible collection for smartInfrastructure, which includes a set of modules that customers can use to integrate Nebulon infrastructure management into their Ansible automation playbooks.

Delinea announced enhancements to DevOps Secrets Vault that up-level secrets management in Kubernetes environments to support the use of custom namespaces and restrict cross-pod access.

Dynatrace enhanced its Application Security Module to provide real-time, automatic attack detection and blocking to protect against injection attacks that exploit critical vulnerabilities, such as Log4Shell.

Komodor, a troubleshooting platform dedicated to Kubernetes, released a new open source tool called Validkube.

Synopsys announced the general availability of Code Sight Standard Edition, a standalone version of the Code Sight plugin for integrated development environments (IDE) that enables developers to quickly find and fix security defects in source code, open source dependencies, infrastructure-as-code files, and more before they commit their code.

Sysdig announced a channel-first approach to doing business. The company has put a stake in the ground, stating sales outside of the Global 500 will transact through partners.

Panaya announced the introduction of new enhancements to its Panaya Test Dynamix end-to-end smart test management platform.

LeanIX launched LeanIX Academic Edition, which provides universities and teaching institutions free access to the company's Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) tool.

DBmaestro launched Source Control, a team collaboration solution for tracking and managing database code changes.

strongDM announced a major release, featuring deep integrations with Okta and Azure AD and the ability to create and enforce dynamic access rules.

ShiftLeft announced a new release of its ShiftLeft CORE platform, the Velocity Update, with a host of new features that enable application security and development teams to identify and remediate attackable vulnerabilities faster and earlier in the development process.

Transposit announced platform features that automate user provisioning with new actions and connectors for Atlassian, Azure DevOps and Slack while keeping humans in the loop and in control.