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
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
