Gremlin adds custom test suites, reliability scores
The chaos engineering company Gremlin has updated its reliability testing suite with new features like custom test suites, reliability scores, and enterprise-wide dashboards. The new enhancements are designed to provide site reliability engineers with ways to customize their reliability standards and measure progress on those standards. Admins can now create their own test suites to … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks updates Prisma SASE with enhancements to Zero Trust, user experience
Palo Alto Networks is introducing new updates to its platform that will help companies achieve Zero Trust security with its Prisma SASE application. Prisma SASE is a cloud-native architecture that integrates SD-WAN and security. “The strong force of distributed resources is shaping today’s organizations – workers are hybrid and applications are increasingly moving to the … continue reading
Report: 97% of consumers are bracing for cyberattacks to continue getting worse in 2024
Nearly all consumers are feeling like the number of cyberattacks that happen isn’t going down in the next year. Ninety-seven percent of respondents to a survey conducted by ThreatX said cyberattacks will either increase or remain the same in 2024, and 94% say that cyberattacks will be more difficult to defend against. In addition, 69% … continue reading
LogicMonitor brings generative AI to IT operations teams with new Co-Pilot
The observability platform LogicMonitor is releasing a new generative AI solution, LM Co-Pilot, that can be utilized by IT operations teams. According to a recent survey conducted by the company, over a quarter of IT leaders responded that they had deferred troubleshooting an incident to a development team. LM Co-Pilot was designed to enable IT … continue reading
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 released, RHEL 8.9 out in a few weeks
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 coming in the next few weeks. These releases include updates designed to support containers, including an expansion of the Podman integration already present in RHEL. Podman is a tool for deploying, running, building, and sharing Linux … continue reading
IBM and VMware partner to facilitate on-prem deployments of watsonx
IBM and VMware have expanded their partnership in an effort to help more customers utilize watsonx, which is IBM’s AI solution that is designed to enable companies to implement AI into their applications and services. The companies’ mission is to let companies deploy AI on-prem in the same location as their mission-critical operations. According to … continue reading
KubeCon Day 2: NGINX Gateway Fabric Version 1.0, Chronosphere Lens, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America began yesterday in Chicago, IL. Like always, the event results in a number of different Kubernetes vendors making announcements about updates to their offerings. Yesterday resulted in a number of announcements, which you can read about here, and here are a few highlights of what was announced today: NGINX Gateway … continue reading
KubeCon: GKE Enterprise gets release date, Mezmo adds data profiling feature, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America just kicked off this morning in Chicago, IL. Like always, the event results in a number of different Kubernetes vendors making announcements about updates to their offerings. Here are a few highlights: GKE Enterprise will be available November 15 GKE Enterprise is the premium version of Google Cloud’s Kubernetes service. … continue reading
Solo.io’s Gloo Mesh Core offers ability to use service mesh without the complexity
The cloud-native networking company Solo.io is introducing a new product called Gloo Mesh Core that was created to increase service mesh adoption by alleviating some of the complexities of working with the technology. “Service mesh does have a bit of a reputation for complexity,” Tom Callway, vice president of marketing for Solo.io, told ITOps Times. … continue reading
Why Nokia Bell Labs created UNEXT to transform networking and communications
Earlier this month, Nokia Bell Labs announced an evolution of UNIX that promises to transform networking. Unified Networking Experience, or UNEXT, aims to reduce the complexity that communications systems have today. “The situation that we have in networking basically is today we have seen the network becoming more and more complex, because with the advent … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Katran
Katran is an open-source layer 4 network load balancer (L4LB) developed by Meta. L4LBs are load balancers that operate on packets, not application level requests, Meta explained. According to Meta, typically, L4LBs are important in managing latency and scaling the number of backend servers in an environment. The company says that the key benefits of … continue reading
AWS launches separate cloud for EU customers to help with data sovereignty
AWS is launching a new solution aimed at companies operating in the European Union (EU). The new AWS European Sovereign Cloud is separated from the existing AWS Regions in the area and includes more options for deployment. The company launched this new cloud in an effort to help companies meet “data residency, operational autonomy, and … continue reading
