BigPanda adds new machine learning capabilities for IT Ops teams
BigPanda has introduced new capabilities to its cloud platform for IT Operations. It is adding two new product components to the Autonomous Digital Operations solution: Open Box Machine Learning and Unified Analytics. “Machine learning can significantly improve operations for IT organizations struggling with data and alert overload,” said Nancy Gohring, senior analyst at 451 Research. … continue reading
Atlassian releases auto-scaling tool for Kubernetes
Atlassian has released an open-source Kubernetes autoscaler that is optimized for batch workloads. The project, Escalator, attempts to solve many of the issues associated with autoscaling. According to the company, it found that clusters either weren’t scaling up or scaling down fast enough. “Initially with our Kubernetes platform, we were pleasantly surprised by how quickly … continue reading
FixStream’s latest AIOps platform aims to predict issues before they occur
FixStream has announced an advanced version of its predictive IT operations solution designed to predict issues in business apps before they occur. The new AIOps platform uses machine learning algorithms to identify issues that would significantly impact business in a matter of minutes instead of hours, the company explained. In addition, it uses pattern detection … continue reading
MuleSoft announces Titan with new runtime, advanced security and monitoring capabilities
MuleSoft has announced the latest release of Anypoint Platform, referred to as Titan. Titan comes new capabilities designed to make it easy to deploy, secure, and monitor composite applications across cloud environments. According to the company, the release of Titan will help accelerate digital transformation by providing increased security, visibility, and flexibility. It will drive … continue reading
Mesosphere raises $125 million for digital transformation efforts
Mesosphere has announced that it has closed a $125 million Series D funding round. According to the company, this is a major milestone and represents its work being done in the hybrid cloud and digital transformation space. The round was co-led by funds and accounts from T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and Koch Disruptive Technologies. … continue reading
NetApp adds new integrations with Google Cloud Platform
NetApp has announced NetApp Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud Platform. The solution is a fully-managed, cloud-native file storage service integrated with GCP. According to NetApp, this release marks the first step of a partnership that combines NetApp’s data services with Google Cloud’s leadership in application development, analytics, and machine learning. “Companies are on different paths … continue reading
Datadog reveals new way to monitor and debug containers
Datadog has announced a new method for monitoring and debugging containers in real time. The company introduced the container map view, which aims to provide a global overview of the environment to allow users to group, filter, and explore containers. “In the past few years we have seen enormous growth in the adoption of Docker … continue reading
Confluent Operator brings Apache Kafka to Kubernetes
Confluent has announced the Confluent Operator, a new enterprise solution for provisioning and managing Apache Kafka on Kubernetes. The solution will allow organizations to deploy and manage large-scale streaming platforms using Apache Kafka on Kubernetes and simplifies operations on Kafka clusters, according to the company. Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform. The Confluent … continue reading
Google announces Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring for more comprehensive observability of Kubernetes
Google has announced a beta release for Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring, designed to enable users to observe Kubernetes in a more comprehensive way. According to the company, in order to observe complex Kubernetes environments users need to use multiple tools and deal with data coming from a variety of different sources. This results in a siloed … continue reading
Kontena Pharos reaches 1.0 with a mix of security, modularity and the power of Kubernetes
Kontena has released version 1.0 of its certified Kubernetes distribution, Kontena Pharos. According to the company, it delivers a robust foundation at scale and provides a perfect mix of simplicity, security, and modularity. “We are heavily focusing on making Kubernetes safe for any environment. For example, we are blocking unauthenticated ports, using TLS authentication wherever … continue reading
CoreOS aims to break the barrier to entry for Kubernetes apps with the Operator Framework
CoreOS, which is now a part of Red Hat, has announced the Operator Framework, a new open-source toolkit for managing Kubernetes native applications “in a more effective, automated, and scalable way.” According to the company, an Operator is a method for packaging, deploying, and managing Kubernetes applications. Operators take human operational knowledge and translate it … continue reading
Splunk Insights for Infrastructure provides IT teams with a new approach to monitoring
Splunk has announced the general availability of Splunk Insights for Infrastructure, which is designed to be a low-cost solution for automatically correlating metrics and logs to monitor IT. It was created with system administrators and DevOps teams in mind. “At Splunk, we believe infrastructure monitoring should be seamless, inexpensive, and easy to administer and use. … continue reading
