ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Istio Ambient Mesh
Cloud-native company Solo.io yesterday announced a new open-source project aimed at accelerating adoption of the service mesh Istio. The project, Istio Ambient Mesh, provides a new architecture for Istio that offers greater flexibility, security, and performance. “Istio is the future of service mesh, and Ambient Mesh brings a whole new level of flexibility for companies … continue reading
Bitwarden secures $100 million in funding
The password manager Bitwarden has announced $100 million in new funding from the equity firm PSG, with participation from existing investor Battery Ventures. It will use the money to accelerate product and company growth to meet the growing needs of its customers. According to Bitwarden, the switch to remote work and therefore the further mixing … continue reading
Pluralsight offering free access to popular cloud computing certification programs
The upskilling platform Pluralsight has announced a new free offering aimed at closing the cloud skills gap. According to the company’s State of Upskilling Report, 40% of tech leaders said that cloud computing was their top skill concern. There is currently a high demand for workers with these skills. Through the end of 2022, video … continue reading
IBM and VMware partner to support modernization initiatives in highly regulated industries
IBM and VMware have announced a new partnership that will help their joint customers modernize mission-critical workloads and improve their hybrid cloud environments. They believe that this partnership will be especially beneficial to customers in highly regulated industries like financial services, healthcare, and public sector. Companies in those industries wish to modernize their infrastructure but … continue reading
Workato launches tool to help cut down on unnecessary IT costs
The automation platform Workato has announced its Software License Optimization Accelerator to help companies reduce unnecessary IT spending. It does this by analyzing application usage, identifying underutilized licenses, and initiating optimization processes. According to Workato, the current economic situation has been a concern on leaders’ minds, causing them to start thinking about areas where costs … continue reading
What to expect in Kubernetes 1.25
The next version of Kubernetes, 1.25, is expected to be released in a few weeks (UPDATE: 1.25 is now available). In advance of that, Sysdig, creator of Falco, an open-source project for securing Kubernetes, has shared details of what to expect in the release. Sysdig often gives an advance look into upcoming releases of Kubernetes. … continue reading
Report: Over half of organizations have a Zero Trust Initiative in place
The number of organizations that have some sort of Zero Trust initiative in place has more than doubled in the last year. This finding comes from the security company, Okta, which has announced the results of its fourth annual State of Zero Trust Security Report. The survey looked at 700 security leaders and revealed that … continue reading
ObservIQ releases open-source observability pipeline, BindPlane OP
Telemetry company observIQ has announced the general availability of its observability pipeline BindPlane OP. It is an open-source offering and was built specifically for use with OpenTelemetry. Enterprises can use BindPlane OP to control their observability costs, simplify telemetry agent management, and avoid vendor lock-in. According to observIQ, the solution was built to address the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Chain-bench
Chain-bench is an open source tool created by Aqua Security for auditing software security supply chains. It is based on the CIS Software Suppy Chain benchmark and is part of the Trivy family of solutions. It audits the entire software development life cycle to look for risks from coding to production. According to Aqua Security, … continue reading
Report: IT workers are spending majority of their time on tasks that don’t contribute to key business outcomes
Sixty-eight percent of IT teams’ time is spent working on tasks that do not actually contribute to key business outcomes. This is according to Digital Enterprise Journal’s latest report, “24 Key Areas Shaping IT Performance Markets in 2022.” The report contains responses from over 3,300 companies. The top performing 20% of survey respondents say their … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Paladin Cloud
Paladin Cloud is a new open-source security platform aimed at helping teams find the gaps in their cloud security. According to the company behind the project, 95% of cloud services are misconfigured, and those misconfigurations have the potential to lead to a breach. Paladin Cloud’s Policy Management Plane offers visibility into cloud assets through a … continue reading
Canonical releases Ubuntu image for Google Cloud’s Tau T2A VMs
Google Cloud and Canonical, the company that releases Ubuntu, have announced that they have released a new Ubuntu image to be used for the preview of Google Cloud’s Tau T2A virtual machines (VMs). Tau T2A is Google Cloud’s VM for running on Arm architectures. “With the launch of T2A VMs on Google Cloud and corresponding … continue reading
