IREN Ltd, a provider of cloud infrastructure services, today revealed its intent to acquire Mirantis , a provider of open source OpenStack and Kubernetes software that is deployed in both cloud computing and on-premises IT environments. Under terms of the agreement valued at $625 million, Mirantis will operate as an independent subsidiary of IREN, a former provider of bitcoin mining services that now specializes in hosting artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Dominic Wilde, senior vice president of marketing for Mirantis, said that while Mirantis will continue to engage with the more than 1,500 IT organizations it supports directly, the combined entity will reduce friction as IT teams move to deploy AI workloads that require deeper levels of infrastructure integration. That level of alignment will benefit IT organizations that are customers of both companies, he added. Privately held, Mirantis has long provided a distribution of OpenStack and more recently has been curating a dis...
Incredibuild this week developed a sandbox, dubbed Islo , that makes it possible to safely run artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents. Company CEO Shimon Hason said Islo provides an isolated execution environment that enables DevOps teams to limit access to sensitive data, codebases, resources and services. Each AI coding agent is then provided with its own dedicated, isolated environment that operates independently and can be centrally managed by a DevOps team. DevOps teams can deploy Islo independently of the Incredibuild platform or, alternatively, use the Incredibuild software development lifecycle (SDLC) management platform to apply policy controls, manage agent identities, enforce guardrails, enable observability, ensure performance and, most importantly, control costs, said Hason. Collectively, these capabilities provide the added benefit of also making it simpler to assign long-running tasks to an AI agent that can be governed and managed without an application develope...