Veeam launches new backup storage solution
Veeam Software has announced the launch of a new cloud-based storage solution, Veeam Data Cloud Vault. The new solution will allow companies to store backup data in an immutable and encrypted format in the cloud. According to Veeam’s Ransomware Trends Report 2024, 85% of companies who were victims of a security breach last year have … continue reading
Protocol Buffers – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Protocol Buffers (also sometimes referred to as protobuf) is a cross-platform mechanism for serializing structured data. Its documentation compares it to formats like XML or JSON, but smaller, faster, and simpler. “You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read … continue reading
Lenovo and Cisco announce partnership to advance workplace productivity innovation
Lenovo has announced it is teaming up with Cisco to develop new solutions that will advance generative AI and other workplace productivity capabilities. According to the companies, this partnership will result in several solutions spanning the areas of digital workspace management, cloud networking, hybrid AI infrastructure services, and Lenovo managed services. By integrating the Cisco … continue reading
Hitachi Vantara adds block storage in latest release of its data platform
Hitachi Vantara has just unveiled new features across its hybrid cloud data platform, Virtual Storage Platform One. The main highlight of this release is the addition of block storage, which is a data storage technique where data is divided into blocks for easier and more efficient retrieval. According to Hitachi Vantara, using block storage can … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenDAC
Georgia Tech and Meta have teamed up to create an open dataset called OpenDAC that is designed to help improve direct air capture technology, which is a process that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air. According to Georgia Tech, one of the biggest challenges to direct air capture is that every environment and location … continue reading
PagerDuty Operations Cloud updates embrace AI and automation for incident resolution
PagerDuty has announced several updates to PagerDuty Operations Cloud, which is the company’s overarching platform that combines its AIOps, Process Automation, Incident Management, and Customer Service Ops offerings. First, the company announced PagerDuty Copilot, which is a generative AI assistant for the platform that is now in early access. Customers can chat with it to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: AFFiNE
This week’s highlighted open-source project is AFFiNE, which is a knowledge base intended as an alternative to tools like Notion, Miro, and Airtable. “There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use,” the … continue reading
Report: Occurrence of specialized app attacks quickly rising
In the past year, the number of specialized attacks, which target specific applications through means such as making malicious changes to the code, has sharply risen. According to Digital.ai’s 2024 Application Security Threat Report, the likelihood of an iOS app having maliciously modified code grew from 6% to 20% in the last year. Similarly, for … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Vineyard
Vineyard is an in-memory data manager designed specifically for data-heavy analytics. It uses shared memory to efficiently share data across different systems without needing to do serialization and deserialization. It employs a zero-copy method for sharing, which helps to avoid I/O overhead costs. According to the project maintainers, Vineyard is ideal for complex cloud-native environments, … continue reading
Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management 3.0 offers consolidation of asset vulnerability data
The security and compliance platform Qualys today announced new capabilities as part of CyberSecurity Asset Management 3.0 (CSAM) that provide customers with a real-time view of their attack surface. Qualys CSAM 3.0 consolidates asset and risk data into a single interface. For every asset, it provides data such as upcoming end-of-life and end-of-support data, missing … continue reading
Elastic’s Attack Discovery uses AI to surface and prioritize security alerts
Elastic is on a mission to modernize Security Operations Centers (SOCs) by eliminating manual processes and using AI to surface critical alerts faster. The company has just announced the launch of Attack Discovery, which triages hundreds of alerts and only returns the ones that matter, enabling security teams to respond faster and more efficiently. Attack … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kube-OVN
Kube-OVN is an open-source project attempting to bring the benefits of SDN to the cloud-native era. “If you miss the rich networking capabilities of the SDN age but are struggling to find them in the cloud-native age, Kube-OVN should be your best choice,” the project maintainers say. It has a number of key features, including … continue reading
