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CERN joins OpenSearch foundation as associate member

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CERN brings decade-long OpenSearch experience to foundation as it tests Kubernetes management and AI uses across 130 clusters.
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GitLab 18.11 adds AI agents for security & pipelines

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GitLab 18.11 rolls out AI agents for security remediation, pipeline setup and delivery analytics, plus new spending caps on GitLab Credits.
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Rubrik survey warns of AI agents outpacing security

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Survey finds AI agents are spreading faster than security teams can track them, with most firms lacking visibility, rollback controls and identity governance.
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OpenSearch 3.6 debuts with new observability stack

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OpenSearch 3.6 lands as first LTS release with new observability stack, APM and agent tools for search, tracing and relevance tuning.
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OpenSearch foundation launches long-term support programme

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OpenSearch set out its first enterprise support framework as new long-term releases promise 18-month cover, faster CVE fixes and certified vendors.
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ControlUp tops USD $100 million ARR & becomes unicorn

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ControlUp crosses USD $100 million ARR as enterprise demand, channel growth and AI-driven endpoint management push the London firm into unicorn territory.
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AI code still needs production debugging, report finds

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Lightrun report finds 43% of AI-generated code still needs manual debugging in production, with SRE and DevOps leaders citing major visibility gaps.
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AI shifts IT roles towards orchestration, SolarWinds says

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SolarWinds research finds AI is pushing IT staff into more strategic oversight, as governance and trust become key to using new tools effectively.
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Cloudflare Mesh links AI agents to private networks

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Cloudflare launches Mesh to give AI agents secure access to private networks across clouds, data centres and internal systems.
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AI code needs production debugging, Lightrun report finds

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Lightrun says 43% of AI-generated code still needs production debugging, with leaders warning that limited runtime visibility is slowing adoption.
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Commvault launches AI tools to secure enterprise data

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Commvault unveils AI tools to help enterprises govern agents, prepare approved datasets and recover full-stack systems after automated changes.
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Blackpepper deploys Fastly WAF to protect eCommerce

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Blackpepper turns to Fastly's Next-Gen WAF as online retail traffic surges and attack threats rise across its AWS-driven eCommerce sites.
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Adeptia Automate 5.2 adds AI access to integrations

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Adeptia 5.2 lets AI assistants probe live integration workflows as the software maker adds a Model Context Protocol server for real-time monitoring.
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Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents in public beta

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Anthropic's public beta gives developers cloud-hosted AI agents with built-in execution, tracing and governance, as rivals race to simplify deployment.
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AI agents expose major API security gap, Salt warns

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Salt warns AI agents are widening the API security gap, with 92% of organisations still short of advanced defences and 47% delaying releases.
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Katalon launches AI testing platform for software quality

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Katalon unveils True Platform to help enterprises govern AI-written code with auditable testing, human approvals and unified quality controls.
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Dynatrace to buy Bindplane in telemetry pipeline push

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Dynatrace agrees to buy Bindplane to expand telemetry pipelines, aiming to cut ingest costs and give customers greater control over observability data.
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CloudBolt finds trust gap in Kubernetes automation

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CloudBolt survey finds only 17% of Kubernetes practitioners let autonomous right-sizing run in production, as most demand human review for live changes.
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Neara adopts ClickHouse ClickStack for observability

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Neara turns to ClickHouse's ClickStack as engineers cut incident response times by more than half and track seven terabytes of data monthly.
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NeuBird AI launches ops agent, raises USD $19.3 million

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NeuBird AI expands beyond incident response with a production ops agent and Falcon engine as it secures USD $19.3 million in new funding.