Linux Foundations shows progress with its LF edge and LF networking umbrella organizations
The Linux Foundation umbrella projects LF Edge and LF Networking have reached new milestones that highlight trends that set the stage for next-generation technology. “Indicative of what’s coming next, our communities are laying the groundwork for markets like cloud native, 5G, and edge to explode in terms of open deployments,” said Arpit Joshipura, the general … continue reading
Red Hat releases OpenShift Container Storage 4.5
The key features of Red Hat’s newly released OpenShift Container Storage 4.5 include external mode support for shared storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage, support for VMs and applications on OpenShift, and more. By enabling deterministic performance for data workloads such as archives, data lakes, and databases like PostgreSQL, Data Warehouses, and IBM Db2 Warehouse, … continue reading
FireMon announces new agile network security policy management platform
FireMon’s new agile network security policy management platform offers security capabilities to enable cloud and digital transformation initiatives. “Our customers have told us that traditional approaches to managing network security policy are too cumbersome for their dynamic cloud and hybrid environments,” said Satin H. Mirchandani, the president and CEO of FireMon. “Our agile approach to … continue reading
Pure Storage is acquiring Portworx to create Kubernetes data services platform
Pure Storage’s acquisition of Portworx for $370 million in cash will create a Kubernetes data services platform for cloud-native applications. Portworx is a platform that provides persistent storage, high availability, data protection, data security, and cloud mobility for containers deployed in hybrid cloud architectures. “By combining Portworx container data services with Pure’s industry-leading data platforms … continue reading
SentinelOne announces Automated Application Control Engine to secure cloud and containerized workloads
SentinelOne has released a new automated application control engine that is designed to secure cloud and containerized workloads without human intervention. The automated engine eliminates the need to manually maintain allow-lists, which preserves cloud and container workload’s immutable states while also defending against malware, cryptojacking, and zero-day threats. “It is critical to defend cloud and … continue reading
Silicon Labs launches Secure Vault to improve IoT security
Silicon Labs announced that its hardware and software technologies dedicated to securing IoT devices against growing and evolving threats have earned third-party IoT security certifications from both PSA Certified and the ioXt Alliance. Secure Vault is a new suite of state-of-the-art security features that are designed to help connected device manufacturers address escalating IoT security … continue reading
Micro Focus releases Hybrid Cloud Management X to improve user experiences
Micro Focus’s HCMX provides cloud service consumption in a single view with analytics-based recommendations for discount management. It also modernizes the user experience with embedded AI and drives down operational costs with unified and accelerated service delivery. “The complexity of multiple tools and catalogs used to create a service, provision and manage its lifecycle and … continue reading
Report: More than half of IT teams need improved technology to support remote work
A little more than half of IT teams need improved technology to support a remote workforce and learning environments, according to the new 2020 Pulse report. The areas that need more improvement include better end-user portals for managing inquiries, improved tools for managing remote teams, and increased insight to manage work and resource allocations. When … continue reading
ITOps Open Source Project of the Week: Gemini
The open source project Gemini aims to solve a problem that has frustrated developers since Kubernetes was introduced: the inability to run databases or persistent storage in Kubernetes. To fix this, Kubernetes enablement company Fairwinds built Gemini on the VolumeSnapshot API. The new solution creaties a more robust and user-friendly interface that allows for automated … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe: Red Hat announces Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, OpenShift 4.5, and a partnership with Intuit on Argo CD
Red Hat made a number of announcements in the cluster management and Kubernetes space at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Europe today. Top announcements included: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes released Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes is designed to help organizations scale Red Hat OpenShift with enterprise-grade management capabilities across hybrid … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: EventNative
EventNative is an open source, event collection service that captures all events that an application generates and then streams them to the preferred data warehouse. Users don’t need to modify their existing tracking features when they’re using a drop-in segment and Google Analytics backend. The project currently has support for RedShift and BigQuery and PostgreSQL, … continue reading
Nutanix now available on AWS
Nutanix announced that its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software is now available on AWS, enabling application migration and unified operations across clouds to help businesses accelerate their cloud journey. Nutanix offers a single stack that integrates compute and storage, provides unified operations across private and public clouds, integrated networking with AWS, and license portability from private … continue reading
