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
ITOps Times news digest: Solo.io funding, TrueNAS and Futurex integration, and Kentik funding
Solo.io has announced it raised $135 million in a Series C funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to-date to $171.5 million and its valuation up to $1 billion. According to the company, this is a 10x increase since its last funding round in October of last year. The Series C was led by Altimeter … continue reading
Nirmata releases policy management solution to ensure compliance of Kubernetes workloads
Policy-based security and automation company Nirmata has announced the release of its Cloud Native Policy Management solution, which helps teams ensure security, compliance, and readiness of Kubernetes workloads. According to Nirmata, automating the creation, deployment, and management of policy-based guardrails allows customers to get insights, alerts, and reports. It also allows for better collaboration across … continue reading
Rookout introduces new Kubernetes debugging capabilities
Observability platform Rookout has announced the release of new debugging capabilities for Kubernetes. According to Rookout, debugging complex, cloud-native applications can be difficult even for experienced engineers due to their distributed nature. Rookout has attempted to solve this by creating a new UI that groups cloud resources by namespace, pod, and cluster, and highlighting components … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: LogDNA variable retention, Cloudian announces Red Hat OpenShift support, and Esper raises $60 million in Series C
LogDNA has announced an early access release of its new variable retention feature. Variable retention allows users to save logs in LogDNA’s UI only while they’re relevant, which allows them to ingest new types of data and keep costs down. Users can set rules by defining a LogDNA search syntax that will match logs and … continue reading
Report: IT teams should make more investments in end-user experience
In order to deliver the technology experiences employees need in order to stay productive, IT teams need to invest not just in tools, but in end-user experience. According to a new report from Forrester titled “Build the Foundation of Proactive Technology Support,” many operations teams are transforming the way they service internal customers. They are … continue reading
