ITOps Times news digest: Dell’s new communications infrastructure solutions; Styra’s new Declarative Authorization Service; Liquidware’s ProfileUnity now supports Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022
Dell Technologies has announced new solutions for communications providers that will help them with their transformation to cloud-native networks. Dell Telecom Multi-Cloud Foundation is a new network infrastructure solution for building and deploying cloud-native networks at lower cost. The company is also adding new Bare Metal Orchestrator Modules that can be used to manage the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Orca Systems’ SoC solution for IoT; Lenovo partners with Blue Yonder; Celebrating 115% year-over-year growth in the Argo project
Semiconductor company Orca Systems has announced a wireless system-on-chip (SoC) solution for satellite IoT. It was designed for IoT company Totum. The SoC, ORC3990, is a cost-effective device that includes Orca Systems’ third-gen Live Wireless RF and digital radio subsystem, a low noise amplifier, digital power amplifier, a Totum satellite modem, power management unit subsystem, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Amazon EFS performance improvements; Nutanix simplifies portfolio; and Bugcrowd Security Knowledge Platform updates
Amazon has announced updates to its Elastic File System (EFS) service, improving latency. Previously latency was in the low single-digit milliseconds, and new updates have brought it to around 600 microseconds for the majority of operations. These latency improvements can be experienced on existing or new EFS General Purpose file systems. Nutanix simplifies its product … continue reading
Abstracting complexity from Kubernetes breaks down barrier to entry
Kubernetes is a massive project in the cloud-native space, having grown to 52,000 contributors since its inception, as of a 2020 Cloud Native Computing Foundation report. While interest in Kubernetes continues to grow, one main barrier to its adoption is its complexity. In that same study, complexity was tied with culture changes at 41% as … continue reading
Report: Kubernetes is “crossing the chasm” into mainstream adoption
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has deemed 2021 as the year Kubernetes “crossed the chasm” into mainstream adoption. This is based on insights from its 2021 Annual Survey, such as the finding that 96% of organizations are using or evaluating Kubernetes. Kubernetes has seen particularly high growth over the past year, and now has … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kuma
Kuma is an open-source control plane for service mesh that is built on top of Envoy, which is an open-source service proxy. It features an out-of-the-box L4 and L7 policy architecture, allowing users to quickly set it up and enable zero trust security, observability, discovery, routing, and traffic reliability. Other features include multi-zone deployment for … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Palo Alto Networks’ new firewalls; Dynatrace’s updated security features; Tigera integrates zero trust into Calico Cloud
Security company Palo Alto Networks has announced new firewalls powered by machine learning technology. The new models, PA-3400 and PA-5400 Series provide three times improved security over previous models offered by the company, according to Palo Alto Networks. When compared to the previous models, the PA-5400 has seven times more content inspection per core, with … continue reading
Fastly adds edge deployment option for its WAF offering
Edge network provider Fastly has announced the availability of an edge deployment option for its Next-Gen WAF solution, which is powered by Signal Sciences, the security company that Fastly acquired in October 2020. According to Fastly, this firewall provides protection for applications and APIs no matter where they are located. It can be deployed across … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: InterVision Ransomware Protection as a Service; Wipro and Intel collaboration, and new Aryaka leadership
InterVision has announced its new Ransomware Protection as a Service (RPaaS) solution, which includes access to a team of security experts, strategy for recovery after an attack, and a dedicated virtual CISO. “Ransomware continues to threaten the IT landscape, requiring companies to evolve from traditional, disconnected cybersecurity tools to a comprehensive managed platform,” says John … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Turris Omnia
Turris Omnia is an open source router that features a distributed firewall that adapts to the threats coming into a network to provide more robust security. This firewall works by sending a fingerprint of suspicious traffic that it detects to the Turris headquarters and then evaluating it against other data from other Turris routers. Then, … continue reading
Aqua Security adds new features for assessing security risk
Cloud-native security company Aqua Security is introducing new features that will help companies address their security risk to its Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). According to Aqua Security, users can choose whether to go with a quick assessment of workload risk, or they can actively protect those workloads from attacks in runtime. They can … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: JumpCloud Patch Management; SentinelOne and MimeCast integration; SoftIron and SUSE Rancher partnership
JumpCloud has added new patch management capabilities to its cloud directory platform to give organizations more insight into potential vulnerabilities in their systems and enable them to deploy automated patches. Users will be able to create schedules, report on system patches and versions, and see patch versions across their organization. “We all know that users … continue reading
