The top 10 stories on ITOps Times in 2021
It’s not always easy to read every new article on trends in IT throughout the year. Our holiday gift to you is this list of our top 10 trending stories of the year, in case there were any you missed out on. Happy reading! Report: IT jobs expected to get harder in hybrid work model … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Datto launches Log4j mitigation tool; Harvester 1.0.0 released; ServiceMax announces Spark 360
In an effort to help managed service providers (MSPs) mitigate the Log4j vulnerability, Datto has released a free tool. The Endpoint Assessment Tool can enumerate vulnerable systems, detect intrusion attempts, and protect Windows systems against attacks. “During this critical time, I am pleased to see there has been some great information sharing and that we … continue reading
Self-service IT helps eliminate many operations bottlenecks
Running the IT operations of a company is no easy job. Not only do operations teams have to maintain all of the company’s systems, they also have to ensure positive user experiences, resolve incidents quickly, and help keep developers productive. Luckily, there are ways to ease the burden on IT teams. In a webinar on … continue reading
Report: 74% of companies not achieving true observability despite massive investments
If you need any more proof that you need observability in your systems, look no further than last week’s large AWS outage. It took down many large websites, and was a great reminder that you need to know what your systems are doing at all times in order to be able to properly respond when … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Second Log4j vulnerability detected; IBM and Samsung make new semiconductor breakthrough; Linux Foundation announces new IT course
A second vulnerability has been detected in Log4j that renders previous mitigations for versions 2.7.0 to 2.14.1 potentially useless, according to LunaSec. The security company explained that your systems may be vulnerable if you only enabled the “formatMsgNoLookups” flag or set “%m{nolookups} when setting attacker controlled data in ThreadContext. It recommends updating to at least … continue reading
The tradeoffs of moving to the cloud can be alleviated with a hybrid approach
Cloud adoption is at an all-time high, but massive outages, such as last week’s AWS outage have highlighted that there are indeed some tradeoffs that occur when moving to the cloud, such as their applications being unavailable when their cloud provider experiences an outage. Even though systems are designed for reliability — especially at the … continue reading
Log4j vulnerability is “absolutely brutal”
A major vulnerability was discovered Thursday in the technology Log4j, which is a popular logging package in Java. According to Ashan Dabirsiaghi, co-founder and chief scientist at Contrast Security, Log4j is the most popular logging framework for Java. Essentially any Java application that logs data uses it, and it is used by millions of applications. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Teleport 8; Dazz raises $60 million; IBM SevOne NPM
Teleport has announced the latest version of its Access Plane solution, Teleport 8. Teleport 8 enables passwordless access to Windows desktop and Windows Server. Customers can also now use it to implement zero-trust connectivity to their infrastructure. According to the company, Teleport 8 allows a company’s open network footprint to be reduced down to a … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat Ansible Automation on Microsoft Azure; Cloudflare’s new partnerships; and HCL Technologies and KloudGin partner up
Red Hat announced that its Ansible Automation Platform is now available on Microsoft Azure. Red Hat believes this addition will give customers greater return on investment for automation by being able to leverage Azure services, such as compute, network, and storage. “By integrating open source automation technologies, such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.23 introduces general availability of IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack networking
The latest version of Kubernetes is now available. Kubernetes 1.23 includes 47 enhancements, 11 of which are stable, 17 of which are in beta, and 19 of which are in alpha. In addition, the release team deprecated a feature in this release. The deprecated feature is FlexVolume, which was used to write volumes into Kubernetes. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Equinix Metal updates; AgileBlue raises $2.25 million; HP releases patches for printer vulnerabilities
Equinix has announced new updates to Equinix Metal that will allow organizations to build and scale their SaaS offerings, modernize infrastructure, and facilitate hybrid multicloud architectures. New features include the availability of next gen processors like 3rd Gen AMD EPYC, Ampere Altra, and 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors; workload optimized servers; Nutanix Cloud Platform … continue reading
Gartner predicts top I&O trends for 2022
The IT world is changing faster than it ever has before, and IT professionals and decision-makers need to stay on top of these changes in order to respond accordingly for their organizations. In a talk at Gartner’s IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference, Jeffrey Hewitt, VP analyst at Gartner, shared predictions on the top … continue reading
