Microsoft acquires CloudKnox Security for privileged access capabilities
Microsoft announced that it acquired the cloud Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) provider CloudKnox Security to offer unified privileged access and cloud entitlement management. “The company’s solution helps organizations right-size permissions and consistently enforce least-privilege principles to reduce risk, and it employs continuous analytics to help prevent security breaches and ensure compliance. This strengthens our … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: MicroK8s
MicroK8s allows for low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes for devs, cloud, clusters, workstations, edge and IoT. It is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) certified upstream Kubernetes deployment that runs entirely on your workstation or edge device. The project automatically chooses the best nodes for the Kubernetes datastore, and when a cluster database is lost, another … continue reading
IBM adds enhanced data protection to FlashSystem
IBM announced that it is bringing advanced data protection capabilities to the IBM FlashSystem family of all flash arrays to help companies plan for and recover quickly from ransomware and cyberattacks. IBM Safeguarded Copy, which automatically creates data copies in “immutable snapshots,” will now be integrated into the IBM FlashSystem family. In the event of … continue reading
Pixie Auto Telemetry now available in New Relic One
Pixie Auto Telemetry, an observability tool that provides visibility into Kubernetes applications, is now available as part of New Relic One. Pixie automatically captures application profiles with function-level granularity, full-body requests, system metrics and the Kubernetes-specific state of pods and services. “The ever-changing, dynamic nature of Kubernetes environments results in blind spots, and alternative Kubernetes … continue reading
Google Cloud now indicates which regions have the lowest carbon impact
Google Cloud now indicates the regions with the lowest carbon impact inside Cloud Console location selectors for Cloud Run and Datastream. Regions that have a CFE percentage of at least 75% will be featured as a “Lowest CO2” region or a grid carbon intensity of no more than 200 gCO2eq/kWh.During pre-release tests, users were 19% … continue reading
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.3 released
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes offers tighter integration with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform that fuses modern management capabilities with traditional and hybrid IT environments. The integration is designed to accelerate the automation and cohesion between cloud-native clusters, VMs and traditional infrastructure with streamlined tooling and coordination. RELATED TOPICS: Red Hat to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Eclipse Fog05
Eclipse fog05 provides a virtualized infrastructure that allows for distributed computing, storage, control and networking functions closer to users along a cloud-to-thing continuum. Fog05 offers a set of abstractions to unify the compute, storage and communication fabric from end to end that enables this. It provides the same abstraction of an elastic compute but in … continue reading
Google joins O-RAN ALLIANCE
Google announced that it joined the O-RAN ALLIANCE, a worldwide community of mobile network operators, vendors, and research and academic institutions operating in the Radio Access Network (RAN) industry to help transform the telecommunications industry. RAN reduces the cost of ownership, scale, and overall complexity when it comes to mobile networks. The alliance works to … continue reading
Report: 85% of companies have yet to achieve full Kubernetes and cloud native adoption
Although companies have been adopting cloud native technologies at higher rates than ever before, 85% of companies have yet to fully cross the chasm to adoption when it comes to Kubernetes and cloud native. However, they are quickly moving in that direction. Nearly 78% of companies in Canonical’s Kubernetes and Cloud Native Operations Report had … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cluster API
Cluster API is a Kubernetes sub-project focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters. The project was started by the Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) Cluster Lifecycle to automate cluster lifecycle management for platform operators. At first, the SIG working group started kubeadm to address a set … continue reading
Google Cloud launches new virtual machine family Tau VMs
Google Cloud announced a new virtual machine family, Tau VMs, that delivers price-performance for scale-out workloads. The first instance type in the Tau VM family, T2D, is based on Gen AMD EPYC processors and it enables the VMs to scale out workloads of any public cloud provider available today. According to Google, Tau VMs offer … continue reading
Report: Cloud application monitoring remains the biggest challenge for SREs
Just over half of SREs (53%) said that the number one cloud application monitoring challenge is unified visibility across the stack. Organizations are looking toward AI and machine learning to solve these problems, but adoption of AIOps is slow. This is according to the 2021 SRE Report that was conducted by the digital experience monitoring … continue reading
