IBM and Cloudflare expand partnership to deal with bot-based attacks
The companies have been working together since 2018, when IBM released an application for configuring security solutions, which ran on Cloudflare, called IBM Cloud Internet Services (CIS). “As the threat landscape continues to grow, it’s more important than ever to evolve our offerings to better support our clients in their cyber resiliency journey,” said Nataraj … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: k0smotron
K0smotron is an open-source project for managing Kubernetes control planes. It was released earlier this week by the Kubernetes company Mirantis. The tool allows companies to rapidly provision Kubernetes control planes, and these control planes are also separated from worker nodes. According to Mirantis, this separation allows for provisioning of remote worker nodes, which supports … continue reading
Sysdig: Attackers are moving quickly and steathily in the cloud
A targeted attack can begin within five minutes of credential discovery, and by the time another five minutes have passed, the attackers have completed their goal. This is according to Sysdig’s 2023 Global Cloud Threat report, which looked into cloud-based attacks. “Using their worldwide honeynets, the Sysdig [Threat Research Team] shed light on an alarming … continue reading
CompTIA to add new certifications for data, cybersecurity, and cloud networking
The IT certification company CompTIA has revealed it is working on a new series of certifications around data, cybersecurity, and cloud networking. Three new certifications will be available through the CompTIA Xpert Series, and they will be released throughout 2024. The three certifications include CompTIA DataX, CompTIA CloudNetX, and CompTIA SecurityX. The DataX certification is … continue reading
Istio graduates from CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has revealed that the Istio service mesh has graduated, which is the highest maturity level and signifies the project is stable and production ready. It joins 20 other graduated projects, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, Linkerd, Open Policy Agent, and more. Istio was a pioneer of the service mesh concept, which … continue reading
Selector AI updates AIOps platform with new integrations, outlier detection, and more
The AIOps company Selector AI has announced a number of new capabilities in its summer release. The platform now includes over 500 integrations in areas like network, infrastructure, cloud, and applications. Integrations include BGP/BMP, SNMP, CloudWatch, Stackdriver, Postgres, and NGINX. The new release also added outlier detection to more easily identify devices and applications that … continue reading
Storware Backup & Recovery 6.0 adds OS agent support in Linux and Windows
The latest version of Storware’s backup and recovery solution is now available. In Storware Backup & Recovery 6.0, several features have been added, including OS agent support in Linux and Windows, enabling companies to now protect their data at the file level. Another addition in this release is tape support, now available in technical preview. … continue reading
Cognizant and ServiceNow partner to drive automation in IT
The IT consultancy company Cognizant and the IT software company ServiceNow have announced a new partnership aimed at helping drive adoption of AI-powered automation. The companies have been working together in other capacities for the past decade, but they believe this latest partnership will enable them to build a combined business worth US$1 billion. This … continue reading
Finout announces cost saving solution for AWS
The FinOps platform Finout has announced the release of its Cost Optimizer for AWS, which uses AI to reduce bills by up to 60%. To save customers money, it evaluates changes in usage patterns and then identifies the optimal Reserved Instance capacity that a customer needs to meet its targets. Then, if usage drops, Finout … continue reading
Google Cloud expands security offerings with new AI capabilities
The new capabilities were announced at the Google Cloud Security Summit, along with new partnerships across the industry. It announced Chronicle TDIR for Google Cloud, which enables customers to ingest telemetry data into Chronicle, which is a security operations platform provided by Google. Chronicle can then correlate telemetry data with threat intelligence to detect and … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Volcano
Volcano is an open-source project used for running high-performance workloads on Kubernetes. Kubernetes does not natively provide batch scheduling, which is something required by many workloads, such as machine learning and deep learning, bioinformatics, and other big data applications. This is where Volcano comes in. According to Volcano, often those types of workloads run on … continue reading
Pure Storage adds ransomware recovery to Evergreen//One SLA
This week, Pure Storage is hosting its annual conference, Pure//Accelerate, and has announced a number of new things at this event. First, it announced an SLA expansion to Evergreen//One, which is a Storage-as-a-Service offering. Customers can now purchase ransomware recovery as an add-on service, and will receive technical support and professional services to help recover … continue reading
