PagerDuty has announced the release of new capabilities to its platform to help customers automate more incident response processes. The new Event Orchestration capability allows teams to create custom logic for controlling routing based on event conditions. Other new features include a fully managed cloud version of Rundeck, new service standards, and new change events … continue reading
Amazon has announced the AWS Resilience Hub, which allows IT teams to define, track, and manage the resilience of applications. It lets teams define Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for applications, assesses whether the application’s configuration meets requirements, and provides a resilience score and recommendations. The AWS Resilience Hub can be … continue reading
Red Hat has announced the latest version of its enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.5 adds new features that will make it easier for businesses to scale from datacenters and the cloud to edge environments. Updates include an expansion of Red Hat Insights, improvements to existing container management capabilities, and an easier … continue reading
Grafana Labs has announced new updates to its observability platform, such as Grafana OnCall and Grafana Enterprise Traces. Grafana OnCall is an on-call management tool that came about because of the company’s acquisition of Amixr. It can be used to easily create and manage on-call schedules. It is designed to allow for faster resolution times … continue reading
LogDNA has announced Log Data Restoration, a new capability that will allow users to pull historical logs out of archived storage and into LogDNA for analysis. According to LogDNA, it can be costly to keep logs in hot storage, which is why many get archived. “True observability requires that data consumers can find insights they … continue reading
Emissary-ingress is an open-source ingress controller and API gateway. It is built on Envoy Proxy and supports a number of ingress use cases like load balancing, authentication, and observability. Key features of the project include: The ability to easily manage changes to routing using a policy engine Authentication, rate limiting and TLS to secure microservices … continue reading
Disaster recovery company SIOS has announced the release of SIOS Protection Suite for Linux version 9.6, which enables data integrity protection in Azure and allows for up to a 5x decrease in recovery time for SAP HANA databases. The new SIOS Azure fencing mechanism allows protection against an issue called split brain, which can occur … continue reading
Kyndryl, a provider of managed services for infrastructure that was spun off from IBM, has announced that it both successfully completed its separation from IBM and is now trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a publicly-traded company. It currently has over 4,000 customers internationally being served by over 90,000 technology professionals. According to … continue reading
The beta for the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now available. RHEL 9 Beta features many new enhancements, but according to Red Hat, there are fewer changes that will require IT operations professionals to learn new methods of doing things. “Familiar with RHEL 8? Then RHEL 9 Beta will help you … continue reading
Taos, an IBM company that focuses on multi-cloud and DevOps, announced the launch of a new consulting service: Cloud Cost Optimization Advisory Service. It looks at a company’s cloud deployment, process organization, and governance models to identify potential areas for cost reduction. According to Taos, this service could reduce cloud spend by up to 30%. … continue reading
Network automation company Gluware has revealed it raised $43 million in funding. It will use the new funds to scale its sales and marketing efforts and continue to build its network automation platform out. This round was led by Bain Capital, with participation from Acadia Woods Partners and other existing investors. “Modern IT environments are … continue reading
BMC has announced new updates across its BMC Helix and Control-M products that will enable companies to gain more value from their data. This will allow them to better serve customers while also increasing their own agility and resiliency. Control-M Workflow Insights is a new feature that provides observability into application and data workflows that … continue reading