Low-code tools are the key to eliminating shadow IT
Halloween is coming up, but thanks to the rise in popularity of low-code tools, IT teams will have one less scary thing to worry about this time of year: shadow IT. If you haven’t heard the term before, shadow IT is what happens when there are applications running in an organization that the IT department … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Wind River’s support for Intel SoC processors; IBM and Cisco collaboration; SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1
Wind River has announced support for certain Intel industrial system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors. Supported processors include Intel Atom x6000 Series, Intel Pentium and Celeron N and J series, and 11th Gen Intel Core and Intel Celeron processors. Wind River’s real-time operating system (RTOS) VxWorks can be deployed to Intel processors to support platforms that have higher … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cilium
This week’s highlighted project is one of the newest additions to the CNCF. Last week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021, the foundation announced that its Technical Oversight Committee had voted to accept Cilium as an incubating project. Cilium provides networking, security, and observability for cloud native environments. It also provides load balancing between application workloads. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Honeycomb’s Series C; LogDNA Agent 3.3; Graylog Security
The observability company Honeycomb has announced that it closed a $50 million Series C funding round. The round was led by Insight Partners with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Headline, Storm Ventures, Industry Ventures, and NextWorld Capital. It will use the new funding to work on delivering more features, launching customer programs and outreach programs, … continue reading
ServiceNow introduces new messaging service for end-to-end issue resolution
With the introduction of a new messaging service, powered by Twilio’s platform, ServiceNow hopes to better connect organizations. “COVID reinforced the importance of putting the customer first, which is why today’s organizations must deliver digital experiences that are seamless and effortless for customers,” said John Ball, SVP and GM of customer workflows at ServiceNow. “With … continue reading
HashiConf Global: What’s on the roadmap for Terraform
HashiCorp’s annual conference HashiConf Global started today, and after a keynote where new and upcoming products that developers and operators could get excited about were discussed, the company’s vice president of engineering, Paul Hinze, joined the stage to share some recent developments for the company’s flagship product Terraform, as well as new features on the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Splunk updates; JumpCloud Series F; vFunction Series A
Splunk has announced several updates to its observability portfolio, spanning the products Splunk APM, Splunk RUM, Splunk Synthetic Monitoring, Splunk Log Observer, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, and Splunk IT Service Intelligence. According to the company, these updates will help provide increased visibility, thus leading to improved performance, productivity, and innovation. “Observability at its core is a … continue reading
Report: Biometric authentication perceived as most secure login method
The FIDO Alliance has released its Online Authentication Barometer in order to provide the industry with insights into the state of online authentication, and it revealed that biometric authentication is the second most popular authentication method behind passwords. Biometric authentication means that a person uses something like their fingerprints or a scan of their face … continue reading
CSNF aims to solve challenges of consuming alerts from multiple cloud providers
Technologists from a number of different companies have come together to develop a solution for creating multi-cloud security notifications. The result is the Cloud Security Notification Framework (CSNF) Decorator, the first public demo of which will take place at ONUG Fall ‘21 next week. According to a document released by the ONUG Collaborative Automated Cloud … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Dell’s edge innovations; CAST AI Series A; Oracle joins ONUG Collaborative
Dell has announced a number of innovations across its edge infrastructure portfolio. Updates encompass Dell EMC VxRail satellite nodes, the Litmus Industrial IoT edge platform, Dell EMC Edge Gateway, Dell EMC Streaming Data Platform, and Latitude 5430 Rugged and Latitude 7330 Rugged Extreme. “The edge is technology’s next great frontier, and it’s all around us, … continue reading
Google Cloud Next ‘21: Google Distributed Cloud, Google Cloud Cortex Framework, and Vertex AI Workbench
Google Cloud Next ‘21 kicked off today, and Google utilized the event to announce a number of updates to its cloud offerings. One new addition to the Google Cloud portfolio is Google Distributed Cloud, which includes software and hardware to extend the Google Cloud infrastructure to the edge and data centers. It is intended for … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: IBM and Apptio partnership, NS1 Cloud-Managed DDI, and Cribl LogStream Cloud Enterprise Edition
IBM and Apptio have announced a new collaboration to help drive adoption of IBM’s open hybrid cloud. The companies will provide customers with optimization and migration capabilities to IBM Cloud through Red Hat OpenShift in Apptio’s financial decision engine. In addition, IBM Global Business Services will advise clients using strategy, design, road mapping, and architectural … continue reading
