Cloud Native stories
Rushing to embrace AI, most firms are easing identity controls despite visibility gaps around powerful non-human and AI-linked accounts.
Chainguard launches a free Catalog Starter pack, giving developers five production-grade secure container images from its vast library.
Spacelift debuts an AI-powered natural-language layer to accelerate cloud infrastructure work while preserving existing IaC and GitOps flows.
1Password unveils Unified Access to secure AI agents and machine credentials, promising endpoint-to-agent visibility for security teams.
Cloud security startup Native launches from stealth with USD $42m to unify preventive, intent-based controls across major public clouds.
AI ambitions and cost pressures are reshaping observability, as teams centralise tools, embrace SaaS and double down on open standards.
Featherless launches Managed OpenClaw, a flat-fee managed runtime and model bundle aimed at taming the costs of always-on agentic AI.
Upwind integrates its runtime cloud security with Azure, offering unified protection and Sentinel tie-ins via the Microsoft Marketplace.
F5 expands its app security platform with AI risk tools, zero trust access and post-quantum crypto to protect modern hybrid workloads.
Edera debuts a vendor-neutral GPU control plane to boost secure multi-tenancy, speed start-up times and unify mixed-accelerator fleets.
CTERA launches Fusion Direct, unifying file and object storage in one global namespace to streamline AI, analytics and collaboration data use.
ActiveState appoints seasoned open source leader Abby Kearns as Chief Executive, sharpening its focus on managed open source security.
Tetrate launches Built on Envoy, an open source extension hub to speed enterprise adoption of Envoy, especially for AI-heavy workloads.
Datadog's new MCP Server pipes live telemetry into AI agents and dev tools, promising real-time debugging under existing governance controls.
Finastra launches OperatorAssist AI to cut banks' payment investigation work, promising 20-30% faster exception handling and reduced costs.
Meshcloud joins CNCF and The Linux Foundation to push open standards, cloud-native tooling and digital sovereignty for multi-cloud platforms.
Australian firms are easing digital identity checks to speed AI rollouts, even as doubts grow over governing non-human access and risk.
Commvault extends its cloud data protection platform to New Zealand, promising in-country sovereignty, faster recovery and unified resilience.
Rainforest Distribution turns to Manhattan's cloud-native planning tech to unify demand, forecasting and replenishment as it scales.
SUSE reshapes its European tech structure, adds senior leaders and new business units to sharpen its digital sovereignty and AI focus.
