ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Emissary-ingress
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
SIOS Protection Suite updates allow for data integrity protection in Azure
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
ITOps Times news digest: Kyndryl separates from IBM; Yotascale cost allocation for Azure; MemVerge announces Big Memory Cloud technology
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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Beta features more simplified automation capabilities
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
ITOps Times news digest: Taos’ Cloud Cost Optimization Advisory Service; CrowdStrike acquires SecureCircle; BlackBerry and Okta partnership
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
ITOps Times news digest: Gluware funding; Imperva Snapshot for Amazon RDS; Nylas completes new certifications
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’s latest innovations allow IT teams to gain more insights from their data
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
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
