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
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
