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
Secure Code Warrior’s new SCW Trust Score helps companies benchmark their security posture
The security learning company Secure Code Warrior is making it easier for organizations to assess the security posture of their development teams with the SCW Trust Score. The score utilizes 20 million data points from over 250,000 developers to provide a benchmark that teams can compare themselves to. Scores are given on a scale of … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Eraser
Eraser is an open source tool for cleaning up unused Kubernetes images in a cluster. “When deploying to Kubernetes, it’s common for pipelines to build and push images to a cluster, but it’s much less common for these images to be cleaned up. This can lead to accumulating bloat on the disk, and a host … continue reading
FCC votes to restore net neutrality
The FCC voted 3-2 today to restore net neutrality, a practice where internet service providers (ISPs) have to treat all communications services equally. In the U.S. net neutrality laws were first established by the Obama administration in 2015, but were repealed in 2018 by the Trump administration. Today’s ruling reclassifies broadband services as a Title … continue reading
Dropbox 2024 Spring release introduces end-to-end encryption for team folders and new Dropbox Replay features
The file storage and sharing company Dropbox just announced its 2024 Spring release which comes with a number of new features, including end-to-end encryption for team folders, additional Dropbox Replay features, new Microsoft integrations, and more. End-to-end encryption has been added to shared team folders, which is beneficial for teams who are working with highly … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Console Cartographer
Cloud Console Cartographer is an open-source project that allows IT teams to more easily read and understand cloud logs from AWS. “If you’ve spent any amount of time digging through logs trying to triage activity in an environment, you’ve probably been overwhelmed with the log data that comes from console activity,” explained Daniel Bohannon, principal … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.30 is now available
The Kubernetes release team has announced that Kubernetes 1.30 is now available. It includes 45 enhancements; 17 are Stable, 18 are in Beta, and 10 are in Alpha. One of the stable features in this release is that the volume manager has been updated to allow the kubelet to populate information about how existing volumes … continue reading
Report: Nearly half of all internet traffic is bots, a third is bad bots
The percentage of internet traffic that is bots continues to rise every year, and last year bots made up 49.6% of all internet traffic, which was a 2% increase from 2022. This is according to Imperva’s 2024 Bad Bot Report, which analyzed bot traffic across the internet. They found that the proportion of bots out … continue reading
Arm announces new NPU and IoT Reference Design Platform
Arm has announced a new neural processing unit (NPU) and a new IoT Reference Design Platform. The company believes these new advancements will help support edge AI applications. Arm Ethos-U85 improves performance by 4x compared to the previous version and also has 20% higher power efficiency. It also has 2048 MAC units, compared to the … continue reading
