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
Octopus Deploy updates multi-tenancy capabilities
With the new features, Octopus Deploy is able to better help organizations deploy software to thousands of tenants. According to Octopus Deploy, it is common for organizations today to have multi-tenant deployments, where each location has its own unique requirements, such as different time zones, outage windows, or technology. “If you deploy SaaS applications or … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Carina
Carina is a local storage solution for Kubernetes. It was accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in December 2022 as a sandbox project, and as of the time of this writing it was still at the sandbox level. Features include disk management, device registration, PVC resizing, scheduling based on capacity, volume topology, PVC … continue reading
Cisco unveils updated product portfolio built for connected world
At its annual network and security event, Cisco LIVE 2023, Cisco announced a number of new capabilities and products throughout its portfolio. According to a recent report conducted by the company, 85% of IT workers value simplicity in IT systems, and with the new innovations Cisco aims to provide that simplicity to its customers. “We’re … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: RISE
The Linux Foundation Europe recently announced the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project. RISE will bring together leaders from across the industry to drive the development and adoption of processors that use the RISC-V architecture. “It’s an exciting time to be part of the RISC-V community, with continued popularity of the platform as well as strong … continue reading
Red Hat Summit: Ansible Lightspeed, Event-Driven Ansible, and Red Hat Insights updates
The Red Hat Summit is happening this week in Boston, MA. During the event, Red Hat is making a number of announcements related to its product suite. Here are the highlights: Ansible Lightspeed This is a generative AI service for adding automation to Ansible. It uses domain-specific AI, meaning that it has a core understanding … continue reading
New Relic releases new infrastructure monitoring solution with competitive pricing model
The observability platform New Relic has just launched a new solution for infrastructure monitoring. Customers will be able to view key metrics like CPU and memory for hosts, containers, and virtual machines. They can then use this information to identify which applications have under-provisioned resources and make adjustments accordingly. They will be shown an at-a-glance … continue reading
Catchpoint unveils lots of new features to make Internet performance monitoring better
Catchpoint has announced a number of new enhancements to its Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform. Internet Weather shows the status of Internet services around the world, so that teams can be aware of outages in their third-party dependencies. It includes popular CDN, DNS, IaaS/PaaS, ISP, and SaaS providers. Traceroute Enhancement is an enhancement to Network … continue reading
Report: IT executives growing concerned over cloud spending
These IT leaders will be trying to find ways to reduce their cloud infrastructure, application, and tools costs. According to a survey by Vega Cloud, 100% of the 100 executives they surveyed say that cloud is important to their business. 91% currently spend at least $1 million per year on cloud infrastructure. Despite the critical … continue reading
