Kubernetes 1.26 released with storage improvements
Kubernetes 1.26 includes a total of 37 enhancements. The Kubernetes maintainers also announced that twelve features are being deprecated or removed. One major change is that this is the first release published in the new registry.k8s.io image registry. The container registry was changed in the previous release. The new version has many storage improvements including … continue reading
Micro Focus announces HCMX FinOps Express to help companies optimize cloud spend
Micro Focus announced the release of Hybrid Cloud Management X (HCMX) FinOps Express, which is a SaaS service designed to help companies reduce their cloud spend by providing management of cloud investments. “Among many reasons that organizations move workloads to the cloud is to reduce data center costs, but many organizations do not realize the … continue reading
Flux graduates from the CNCF Incubator
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the Flux project, which is a set of continuous and progressive delivery solutions for Kubernetes, graduated from the CNCF Incubator. Graduating from the Incubator is an important milestone for any project, as it signifies that the project is now part of the CNCF-hosted projects and is officially … continue reading
Logz.io 360 released to help with better Kubernetes observability
Logz.io revealed its Open 360 Platform at AWS re:Invent 2022 to deliver to help observability teams focus on, and pay for, only the most critical data. Users will gain centralized, cross-stack Kubernetes observability to an expanded data collection agent. Open 360 includes Logz.io Kubernetes 360 to deliver unified observability for Kubernetes environments, Logz.io Telemetry Collector … continue reading
Rafay launches cost management tool for Kubernetes
Rafay launched its Cost Management Service that is integrated into its Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP), enabling cloud cost optimization across clusters located in public clouds and on-premise data centers. The launch comes as a way to help companies who struggle with Kubernetes resource consumption and reporting how spend is allocated across internal departments. With the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Project Sylva
The Linux Foundation in Europe announced the formation of Project Sylva, a common cloud software framework and adjacent Reference Implementation to reduce fragmentation of the cloud infrastructure layer for telecommunication and edge services. The intention for the project is to create a new, open-source, production-grade Telco Cloud Stack to reduce the complexity and accelerate cloudification … continue reading
Alluxio 2.9 adds scaling for tenant-level isolation and simplified DevOps for Kubernetes
Alluxio announced Data Orchestration Platform 2.9 which adds support for a scale-out, multi-tenant architecture with a new cross-environment synchronization feature and enhanced tooling and guidelines for deploying Alluxio on Kubernetes. The company aims for the platform to be a key layer between compute engines and storage systems with the enhancements. The new cross-environment synchronization feature … continue reading
Canonical announces new Ubuntu images for Intel IoT platforms
Canonical announced the availability of new enterprise-grade Ubuntu images available for both Desktop and Server Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS and are designed for next-generation Intel platforms. As part of the new release, Intel and Canonical will jointly provide enterprise-class hardware and software support, ensuring product longevity. The production-ready Ubuntu releases are specially designed … continue reading
Cohesity announces DataHawk, new Data Security Alliance
Cohesity announced DataHawk, a data security SaaS solution focused on helping companies recover from and prevent cyberattacks as well as a new Data Security Alliance. The alliance will combine solutions from cybersecurity and services companies such as BigID, Cisco, CrowdStrike, CyberArk, Okta, and more with Cohesity’s data security and management expertise. Partners will be able … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks announces partnership with Zoom to create solutions to help IT troubleshoot issues
Palo Alto announced an integration between its Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) which is part of Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Access and Zoom Quality of Service Subscription (QSS), which is an add-on to the video communication platform Zoom that provides details about network traffic. The integration is part of a commitment to create joint solutions. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Nushell
Nushell is an open-source project that aims to bring a rich programming language and a full-featured shell into one package. The project is inspired by Plan 9’s rc shell and aims to provide a more modern shell experience. It also takes design cues from traditional shells like bash, PowerShell, gradually typed languages like TypeScript, functional … continue reading
Economic uncertainty, cloud-native technology, and demands for data sovereignty will reshape the cloud in 2023
Economic uncertainty, cloud-native technology, and demands for data sovereignty will reshape the cloud in 2023, according to the Predictions 2023: Cloud Computing report by Forrester. Despite the economic uncertainty that lies ahead, cloud-native is projected to go mainstream as companies plan to freeze investment in legacy systems and invest more in technologies such as Kubernetes. … continue reading
