VMware Cloud Flex Storage now in public preview
VMware has announced a public preview of its cloud storage and data management service Cloud Flex Storage. Cloud Flex Storage is a fully managed service, and offers a scalable and flexible storage solution. For example, in just a few clicks a customer could scale their storage environment and adjust their storage capacity up or down. … continue reading
NVIDIA announces a number of updates at GTC conference
NVIDIA has announced a number of new solutions and updates at its GTC conference. One main highlight is its announcement of Spectrum-4. Spectrum-4 is the next generation of the company’s Ethernet platform. According to the company, this latest version will enable the robust performance and security that is necessary to run data center infrastructure at … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Karmada
Karmada is an open-source project that provides orchestration capabilities for Kubernetes. It consists of three main parts: an API server, a controller, and scheduler. The API server offers a REST endpoint for resource templates and policies. Controller creates Kubernetes resource by watching resources in the API server and then communicating with the underlying clusters. And … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: CoreDNS
CoreDNS is an open-source DNS server that offers chaining of plugins. Individual plugins are used for tasks like Kubernetes service discovery, Prometheus metrics, rewriting queries, or serving from zone files. Other key capabilities include signing zone data on-the-fly, load balancing, enabling zone transfers, caching DNS responses, and serving as a proxy to forward queries to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Argo
Earlier this month, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the Argo project had seen 115% year-over-year growth, according to the results of its annual survey. In addition to this growth, the CNCF explained that Argo is one of the highest velocity projects in the organization. Argo provides a set of tools for running … continue reading
Forward Enterprise update provides prediction capabilities for network monitoring
Monitoring company Forward Networks has announced new features to its Forward Enterprise platform, giving customers a full 360-degree view of physical and virtual environments. The solution creates a digital twin of the environment, which teams can then use to troubleshoot, verify intent, and predict behavior by calculating possible traffic paths. Other key features of the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Cloudflare acquires Area 1 Security; Sumo Logic Cloud SOAR updates; Zenoss monitoring updates for Kubernetes
Cloudflare has announced that it is acquiring the cloud-native security company Area 1 Security in order to bolster email security capabilities. Cloudflare had previously released its first email security product last year with Email Security DNS Wizard, which targets email spoofing and phishing. “Area 1 has spent years training their machine learning models with email … continue reading
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
