Malwarebytes expands ThreatDown with new feature for blocking unwanted apps from launching
Malwarebytes has announced the introduction of a new feature that stops applications from launching into its endpoint security solution ThreatDown. The new feature, called Application Block, prevents unauthorized, unwanted, or malicious apps from launching. IT teams can specify particular apps that they don’t want opened either, such as apps they deem to hinder productivity. According … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Litmus
This week’s highlighted open-source project is Litmus, which is a platform for conducting chaos engineering tests, which identify weaknesses in infrastructure so that they can be addressed before they become real issues. The project is made up of a control plane called chaos-center, which allows you to construct, schedule, and visualize chaos workflows, and an … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Capsule
Capsule is an open-source framework for implementing multi-tenant and policy-based environments in Kubernetes clusters. It was created to solve the challenge of cluster sprawl, which is when the number of clusters in an organization grows to a number that is difficult to manage. Normally, one could use the Namespace object to create partitions of a … continue reading
Report: Kubernetes responsible for increasing cloud spend
Companies are spending more and more on cloud services thanks to Kubernetes. A recent microsurvey from the CNCF revealed that for 49% of companies, Kubernetes was responsible for increased cloud spend. The microsurvey was designed by the CNCF and OpenCost team and responses were gathered between June and November 2023, with just over 100 respondents … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Zulip
Zulip is an open-source team chat alternative to tools like Slack or Teams. In Zulip, conversations are organized into streams (think channels in Slack) and streams contain topics, which hold conversations around a specific idea. For example, a team organizing a conference may have a stream called “annual summit,” which is divided into topics like … continue reading
Quest Software releases Foglight Cloud for better management of IT infrastructure
Quest Software has released a new solution that is designed to help companies manage, monitor, and control their data and IT infrastructure. Foglight Cloud is built on top of Quest’s Foglight offering, which is a performance monitoring tool for databases. This new offering expands that functionality to infrastructure. According to Foglight, with all the different … continue reading
Canonical and Intel partner to bring confidential computing to Ubuntu
Canonical and Intel have announced that they are collaborating to enable customers to take advantage of Confidential Computing, which is a practice that protects data that is in use. To support this practice, Intel recently introduced Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX), which is a hardware-based trusted execution environment (TEE) that allows hardware-isolated virtual machines, or … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.29 released with 11 new stable features, many more in alpha/beta
The Kubernetes release team has announced the release of Kubernetes 1.29, which includes nearly 50 improvements. The theme of this release is Mandala, which the release team explains “reflects our community’s interconnectedness—a vibrant tapestry woven by enthusiasts and experts alike. Each contributor is a crucial part, adding their unique energy, much like the diverse patterns … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Eclipse Dataspace Working Group
The Eclipse Foundation recently announced the formation of the Eclipse Dataspace Working Group, a new subgroup within the organization that will foster the creation of new dataspaces using open source technologies. According to the Eclipse Foundation, dataspaces are “federated networks of trusted connections for sharing data to foster information sharing for mutual benefit.” It will … continue reading
Logz.io brings APM to its observability platform with release of App 360
Logz.io, which produces the Open 360 observability platform, has announced the release of a new product called App 360. App 360 improves the Open 360 portfolio by providing functionality for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) use cases in the observability platform, at a lower cost that most APM solutions, Logz.io explained. “App 360 takes everything that’s … continue reading
IBM releases new app-centric connectivity solution
IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh, which IBM announced earlier this year, is now officially available. The new solution is a SaaS product for connecting applications to the network in a secure, easy, app-centric way. “Just as cloud can provide a virtual platform to consume underlying resources like compute and storage, app-centric connectivity offers a new network … continue reading
Gartner: 3 actions I&O leaders can take to deal with reduced or stagnant budgets
Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) leaders are struggling with funding that “only keeps pace with inflation at best.” According to a new survey from Gartner, 41% of I&O leaders said their budgets increased in 2023 to account for inflation, while 37% had their budgets cut or did not increase enough to keep pace with current inflation. … continue reading
