Portworx announces its most significant new release of PX-Enterprise to-date
Portworx has announced the preview of PX-Enterprise 1.4, which is the most significant new release of the solution so far. PX-Enterprise is used by organizations to run stateful containers in production. The company has added 3DSnap, which allows organizations to group and snapshot their data as a single unit. This allows them to maintain an … continue reading
Juniper Networks is enabling end-to-end multicloud policy and control with new offering
Juniper Networks has announced it is expanding Contrail Enterprise Multicloud to enable end-to-end policy and control capabilities. It will support any workload in multi-vendor networking environments, as well as most cloud server deployments. According to the company, most organizations need at least two controllers to manage all of their overlay, underlay, and network devices. With … continue reading
Puppet is on a mission to help their customers fully embrace automation
Puppet has announced the addition of several new products to its portfolio, with the overall goal of helping customers accelerate their journey to automation. It has also revealed new additions to its partner ecosystem to help with this mission. “In order to harness the potential of the latest technologies, CIOs must execute on a roadmap … continue reading
Heptio Gimbal provides a robust load balancing platform built on Kubernetes
Heptio has announced the open source initiative Heptio Gimbal, which is a load balancer built on Kubernetes. Heptio Gimbal enables the unification and merging of Internet traffic into hybrid cloud environments. The project was created as a joint effort between Heptio and Actapio, a subsidiary of Yahoo Japan, as a way to modernize Yahoo Japan’s … continue reading
Microsoft introduces Azure Sphere for secure, Internet-connected microcontroller powered devices
Microsoft announced the preview of Microsoft Azure Sphere at the RSA 2018 security conference this week in San Francisco this week. Microsoft Azure Sphere is a new tool designed for creating secure, Internet-connected microcontroller (MCU) powered devices. According to the company, a MCU is a tiny chip that acts as the brain of intelligent devices … continue reading
LogicMonitor integrates with Atlassian’s Stride for more effective ChatOps
LogicMonitor has announced a new integration with Atlassian’s communication tool Stride. With this integration, IT Ops teams can now view, acknowledge, and respond to IT performance issues directly inside Stride. In addition, teams will have the ability to receive monitoring alerts, schedule downtime directly from Stride rooms, and communicate alert information between team members. They … continue reading
ONAP celebrates one year with strong developer participation
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) is celebrating its one year anniversary this month. ONAP is a platform for the automation of physical and virtual network functions. Over the course of its first year, the ONAP project has reached many milestones including a strong participation from the developer community. It issued its first code release, … continue reading
Software asset management is the key to protecting against bad software vendor practices
The push to move to the cloud has been resulting in some bad behavior by software vendors who want to get their customers to switch to cloud versions of their products. Martin Thompson is the founder of the ‘Campaign for Clear Licensing’ and founder and editor of the ITAM Review. According to Thompson, the ITAM … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.10 now available
Following its graduation from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the CNCF has announced the release of Kubernetes 1.10. The release focuses on three areas: storage, security and networking. “As the Kubernetes community has grown, our release process represents an amazing demonstration of collaboration in open source software development. Kubernetes continues to gain new users at a … continue reading
DxEnterprise 17.5 adds support for SQL Server 2017
DH2i is announcing DxEnterprise 17.5 tomorrow. DxEnterprise is a Windows and Linux Smart Availability solution for databases, Docker containers, Availability Groups, and application services. It will add support for SQL Server 2017, making it the first solution in the industry to do so. According to the company, there is not currently any other solution on … continue reading
Rust lays out its roadmap for the next major release
The Rust team will be delivering Rust 2018 this year, which marks the first major edition of Rust since 1.0 was released in 2015. Rust is a Mozilla-backed systems programming language designed to prevent segfaults and guarantee thread safety. Stack Overflow’s annual Developer Survey Results recently found the language to be the most-loved programming language … continue reading
OneLogin releases new single Identity-as-a-Service solution
OneLogin has released an Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) solution called OneLogin Access. The solution is designed to enable companies to manage access for on-premises and cloud-based applications from a single console. Gartner Research predicts that by 2020, the typical enterprise’s Identity and Access Management program will have one million people, 10 million things, and billions of relationships. … continue reading
