ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tabby
Tabby is a terminal emulator that can be used on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It can also be used for SSH or as a serial terminal. It offers support for PowerShell, WSL, Git-Bash, Cygwin, MSYS2, Cmder, and CMD. It also includes an integrated encrypted container for SSH secrets and configuration. The project maintainers say that … continue reading
Styra Load offers better method for authorization
Styra Load is a new Open Policy Agent (OPA)-based decision engine for authorizing cloud native applications that contain large data sets. According to Styra, a challenge many companies face is that data-heavy authorization workloads can lead to high operations costs. But Styra Load uses 10x less memory and has 40% more CPU throughput when compared … continue reading
Quali updates its infrastructure automation platform with risk reduction features
Quali has updated its infrastructure automation platform Torque with new features intended to help organizations reduce risk and increase value. Torque now automatically does a security scan and health check before allowing infrastructure to be deployed. According to Quali this cuts down on potential issues from misconfigurations. Integration with Open Policy Agent (OPA) allows policies … continue reading
Canonical unveils support for real-time compute in Ubuntu
Canonical today unveiled support for real-time compute in Ubuntu in the release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. According to the company, real-time Ubuntu provides deterministic responses to external events, which cuts down on response times. This makes it ideal for use cases where there are low-latency requirements, like automotive, telecommunications, and aerospace and defense. “The real-time … continue reading
Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform is now available in the Google Cloud Marketplace
Red Hat has made the announcement that the Ansible Automation Platform can now be accessed through Google Cloud Marketplace. According to Red Hat, this new availability provides users with easier access to the platform, which will allow them to get started with automation more quickly and scale it up more efficiently. Users will get access … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: osTicket
OsTicket is an open-source ticketing system for IT teams to track their support requests. It pulls requests from email, phone, and web forms into a simple interface that enables teams to manage, organize, and archive support requests and responses. Users simply have to submit a request through one of the above methods and then IT … continue reading
Venafi has a new tool for securely managing machine identities in Kubernetes environments
The machine identity management company Venafi is working to make it easier for companies to manage their cloud-native machine identities in Kubernetes environments. Today they released TLS Protect for Kubernetes within the Venafi Control Plane. The new tool provides observability features that enable teams to identify security issues and be proactive in fixing those gaps. … continue reading
CES 2023: NVIDIA unveils new GPUs, Lenovo adds new sustainability-focused laptops, Intel introduces next gen mobile processors
The annual Consumer Electronic Show (CES) officially kicks off today and will run through Sunday, January 8th. CES is a major event where the largest technology manufacturers come together to show off their latest innovations. Already a number of companies have been previewing their latest offerings that they will be showcasing at the event. Here … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Wireshark
Wireshark is an open-source network protocol analyzer. It is used to enable companies to go deeper into what’s happening in their networks. Key features include live capture and offline analysis, standard three-pane packet browser, and VoIP analysis. Live data can be read from sources like Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, and more. Data … continue reading
Forrester: Public cloud market to reach $1 trillion by 2026
Forrester predicts that by 2026, the global public cloud market will surpass $1 trillion. However, this growth won’t be without its challenges. Potential challenges include intense competition among large cloud providers, regulatory and political tensions fragmenting the market, and edge computing vendors stealing some of the share of IT spending away from cloud. Another finding … continue reading
Report: IT teams need to step up to play their part in sustainability initiatives
A number of companies are making commitments to sustainability, with 78% of respondents to a recent survey saying it is a priority. But in order to meet those goals, IT will play a key role. This is according to the report “Drivers of Change: Pure Storage IT Sustainability Impact Survey 2022.” It surveyed 1,000 sustainability … continue reading
Argo graduates from CNCF Incubator following massive community growth
Just a week after it announced the graduation of the Flux project, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed that another of its incubating projects is graduating: Argo. Argo is a set of Kubernetes-native tools for deploying and running applications using GitOps. It was first created at Applatix, which was later acquired by Intuit. The … continue reading
