ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Easegress
Easegress, formerly known as EaseGateway, is an open-source traffic orchestration system. Key benefits, according to the project’s GitHub page, include high availability, traffic orchestration, high performance, observability, extensibility, and integration. Easegress was built around three principles: It must be traffic-specific It aims to be an extensible-development platform It is designed to be cloud-native It is … continue reading
Zero Trust is crucial for secure remote work
Microsoft believes companies should be utilizing Zero Trust in order to keep their systems secure. Zero Trust is a security model in which a company always assumes there is a breach and provides the least privileged access necessary. Remote work, and now hybrid work, have shown the need for employees to securely access applications from … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Opengear Lighthouse Enterprise: Automation Edition, Unisys acquires Unify Square, and Sumo Logic acquires Sensu
Opengear has announced the release of Lighthouse Enterprise: Automation Edition. Lighthouse Enterprise provides users with visibility and management capabilities across their networks. This new Automation Edition offers automation capabilities and secure provisioning. “We’re committed to offering industry-first, automation capabilities that provide customers with always-on access to their networks,” said David Fiore, senior software product manager … continue reading
StarlingX 5.0 now available with edgeworker nodes
Open-source edge computing platform StarlingX has announced its 5.0 release. StarlingX combines technologies like Ceph, OpenStack, and Kubernetes to provide a software stack that gives everything enterprises need to deploy an edge cloud, according to the company. StarlingX 5.0 adds support for edgeworker nodes, which are usually deployed at or close to the edge device … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Retrospect Backup 18, Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM, and AlmaLinux 8.4
Retrospect Backup 18 and Retrospect Virtual 2021 are now available. Retrospect Backup 18 features new ransomware protections, an improved new first launch experience, better reporting, and cloud data protection across the major cloud providers. Retrospect Virtual 2021 adds faster backups, improved backup server performance, increased security, deeper data integrity, and broader platform support. “Retrospect Backup … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Splice Machine’s Livewire Pulsar, IOTech’s Edge Builder, and env0’s intelligent cloud cost automation
Splice Machine has announced the release of Livewire Pulsar, which is the latest version of its operational AI platform Livewire. Livewire Pulsar uses an updated Kubernetes architecture, which reduces costs, adds new AI features, and provides a simplified and updated user interface. “Industrial enterprises have struggled to fully optimize their investments in AI. Our new … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Wind River Studio updates, Linux Foundation’s WebAssembly course, Immuta raises $90 million in Series D
Wind River has added new security enhancements to Wind River Studio. New features in Wind River Titanium Linux include secure boot, anti-tamper protections, and simpler mandatory access control (MAC) policy creation. The security controls also meet IoT guidelines like NIST initiatives, OWASP IoT security projects, IoT Security Foundation protocols, and guides from the European Union … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Styra Series B, JumpCloud Protect, and AWS Application Migration Service
Styra has announced that it raised $40 million in Series B funding. This funding round was led by Battery Ventures with participation from A. Capital, Unusual Ventures, Accel, Capital One Ventures, and Citi Ventures. The company plans to use this new funding to double its current team by the end of the year, focusing on … continue reading
Cohesity backup-as-a-service solution adds Microsoft 365 support
Backup company Cohesity has announced new support for Microsoft 365 in its backup-as-a-service offering. Microsoft 365 solutions included in the extended support include Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Teams. According to the company, this new offering can be used in a variety of ways, depending on customer needs. For example it can be used … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud Armor, Moogsoft updates, and AWS Incident Manager
Google Cloud has announced the general availability of Cloud Armor. Cloud Armor is a DDoS protection and Web-Application Firewall (WAF) service for Google Cloud. It absorbs network- and protocol-based attacks and mitigates OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. Cloud Armor Managed Protection Plus is a managed service that bundles DDoS protection, WAF capabilities, Adaptive Protection, efficient pricing, … continue reading
OpsRamp Spring 2021 release offers rapid onboarding
The OpsRamp Spring 2021 release is now available, and it includes faster onboarding, observability improvements, data-driven insights, and more. To help with onboarding, OpsRamp offers a hybrid cloud wizard that provides a guide for discovering and monitoring cloud native infrastructure. Once IT teams provide OpsRamp with information on their infrastructure, the platform will automatically be … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Eclipse ioFog 2.0, ServiceNow updates Field Service Management solution, and Fugue adds support for AWS CloudFormation in Regula
The Eclipse Foundation’s Edge Native Working Group has announced the release of Eclipse ioFog 2.0. Eclipse ioFog is an open source project for deploying and orchestrating containerized applications to the edge. According to the Eclipse Foundation, the major focus for this release was providing a robust set of features for production-grade deployments. It collaborated with … continue reading
