Amazon has announced the availability of its Route 53 Application Recovery Controller which monitors an application’s ability to recover from failures. It also controls application recovery across various AWS Zones and Regions and in on-premises environments. According to Amazon, some industries have higher uptime requirements than the standard 99.999% where recovery time objectives (RTO) are … continue reading
Aqua Security has unveiled its new Aqua Platform. It includes a new unified console, reduces administrative burden, and allows teams to get started with scanning and cloud security posture management (CSPM) capabilities and then allow them to add in more advanced features like sandboxing and workload protection down the road as needed. Other new features … continue reading
The default security capabilities of containers are being overestimated by those working with them. In a survey conducted by Aqua Security, only three percent of respondents recognized that a container by itself is not a security boundary. “The results of the survey showcase a staggering knowledge gap that leads to an underinvestment in a critical … continue reading
Vectra AI has announced that it has been working with Microsoft to deliver Zero Trust capabilities. The Vectra Cognito Platform uses AI to find and prioritize attacks inside Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, cloud, data center, IoT, and enterprise networks. The platform adheres to the Zero Trust framework’s three guiding principles, which are verify explicitly, … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks just announced an expansion to its partnership with Google Cloud to help make cloud adoption more secure. Together they are releasing Cloud IDS, which is a threat detection service. “Businesses are betting on the cloud for their most important initiatives, and one of the most fundamental factors to their success will be … continue reading
Pure Storage has announced expansions to its as-a-service offerings. It launched FlashStack as-a-Service, which is a data infrastructure that integrates on-premise and multi-cloud infrastructures. Another new offering is Portworx Cloud Consumption, which provides greater flexibility to Portworx consumption to better match what their application needs. Instead of purchasing a license that is tied to a … continue reading
Otomi is intended to act as an extension of Kubernetes to turn it into a “full blown container platform.” It provides an advanced ingress architecture, a suite of integrated pre-configured applications, multi-tenancy, and governance and security policies. One of the goals of the project is to support common DevOps use cases. It strongly relies on … continue reading
NS1 is providing IT teams with more information into their application traffic with the release of Traffic Analysis Dashboards within Pulsar Active Traffic Steering. The dashboards give metrics on availability, latency, and traffic distribution. This makes it easier for teams to monitor and optimize their application delivery and performance. According to NS1, latencies in performance-driven … continue reading
Platform9 has announced the release of its Managed KubeVirt (PMK) platform. PMK will provide a unified platform for running virtual machines together with containers. Out-of-the-box capabilities include cloud-managed upgrades, automated monitoring for VMs, SR-IOV and OVS-DPDK support, user-friendly SaaS console, bare metal performance, 99.9% update SLA, and more. “Traditional virtualization solutions are expensive and managing … continue reading
Integration platform TriggerMesh has announced that it received a $5 million investment from Cisco Investments. It will use the funding to increase marketing, sales, and product delivery initiatives. “We are excited to collaborate with Cisco to bring integration into the cloud-native era,” said Mark R. Hinkle, CEO and co-founder of TriggerMesh. “Cisco has a footprint … continue reading
CFEngine is a configuration management system that can be used to automate and ensure availability, security, and compliance of applications and services. Key features include the ability to define configuration of an IT system, system maintenance, checking of system states, compliance, and real-time modifications or updates to the system. Machines with CFEngine installed will run … continue reading
AWS has announced security group rule IDs, which are unique identifiers for security group rules. This simplifies CLI commands and allows security group rules to be tagged like other AWS resources. According to AWS, tags can be used to quickly identify a set of rules across multiple security groups. This new capability is now available … continue reading