ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud’s predictive autoscaling, New Relic One + Azure Spring Cloud, and Taoglas acquires Smartsensor Technologies
Google Cloud has announced predictive autoscaling to automatically anticipate future infrastructure capacity needs. The new capability will create VMs when it predicts upcoming demand and provides enough time for applications to initialize in them. It makes these predictions based on an instance group’s CPU history. It also adjusts forecasts based on recurring load patterns. Customers … continue reading
Report: IT jobs expected to get harder in hybrid work model
Many people are excited about the new era of hybrid work, but a number of IT professionals have their concerns. While remote work has its benefits, workload complexity isn’t one of them; only 32% of IT professionals believe their jobs will get easier in a hybrid model. This is according to PagerDuty’s recently released The … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Verizon partners with IBM and Red Hat, HPE acquires Zerto, and Alluxio 2.6
Verizon has announced a new partnership with IBM and Red Hat. Together the companies will help Verizon deploy its 5G network on an open hybrid cloud platform. Verizon will be able to leverage the benefits of the open-source community while still retaining architectural control to speed the release of new features and offerings. “We all … continue reading
Weave GitOps aims to accelerate GitOps adoption
Weaveworks is trying to make it easier for companies to adopt GitOps. It launched Weave GitOps, which is an application delivery and operations platform for multi-cloud environments. GitOps is a concept originating from Weaveworks in which Git is used as the single source of truth for Kubernetes environments. Since its creation, companies like AWS, Codefresh, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: HPE announces new 5G management capabilities, IBM announces new 5G automation software, and Dell’s HPC innovations
HPE has announced new capabilities for 5G management. The new solution brings together a new 5G capability in HPE Service Director with HPE 5G Automated Assurance. Together these capabilities provide a closed-loop system for managing 5G networks that reduces deployment risks. “To fully seize the opportunity presented by 5G and network slicing, network operators need … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud’s Grafana plugin, NS1’s traffic automation platform, and Quantum and Supermicro collaboration
Google Cloud has announced updates to its Cloud Monitoring plugin for Grafana. It has added sample dashboards for Google Cloud services, a deeper link between Grafana and Google Cloud Monitoring, an improved query interface, and a new Monitoring Query Language (MQL) interface. “The observability of metrics is a key factor for a successful operations team, … continue reading
NVIDIA partners with Equinix on AI LaunchPad
NVIDIA is trying to make it easier for companies to access NVIDIA-powered infrastructure to run their AI workloads on with the release of the NVIDIA AI LaunchPad. The NVIDIA AI LaunchPad will be delivered in collaboration with various cloud providers, the first of which will be Equinix. Equinix customers will now be able to develop … continue reading
CNCF End User Technology Radar shares recommendations for multicluster management
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is trying to make it easier for companies to choose a multicluster management solution for their environments with the release of its fifth CNCF End User Technology Radar. The radar is a guide to emerging technologies that are chosen based on feedback from the CNCF End User Community. According … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: PagerDuty updates, AWS CloudFormation registry, and DH2i’s DxEnterprise for Containers
PagerDuty has announced new capabilities such as PagerDuty Service Graph and updates to AIOps Event Intelligence, including the addition of change correlation and outlier incidents. It also announced two new add-ons to its platform: Runbook Actions and a new plan for customer service operations. Runbook Actions provides diagnostic and remediation automation. This helps IT teams … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: BLADE Framework
The Business Logic Attack Definition (BLADE) Framework is a knowledge base for security professionals. It can help them better understand the techniques used by attackers to exploit weaknesses in the business logic of web facing systems and help prevent bot attacks, which are becoming more common. “As MITRE Corporation have demonstrated with their ATT&CK matrices, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Foundries.io Series A funding, StreamNative Platform, and USB 3.2 Gen 1 Aegis Padlock SSD
Foundries.io, a provider of solutions for securing IoT and edge devices, has raised $8 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by IQ Capital, with participation from Crane Venture Partners and Backed VC. It will use the funding to expand through talent recruitment and marketing initiatives. “The industry needs a new cloud … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Akamai edge updates, Red Hat’s migration toolkit, and Cisco DNA Center 2.2.2
Akamai has announced new edge capabilities to help customers create better user experiences. It is making EdgeWorkers more flexible with new resource tiers that enable customers to better fit their needs. The two tiers are Basic Compute, which is suitable for applications that require lower CPU and memory consumption, and Dynamic Compute, which is suitable … continue reading
