ITOps Times news digest: New Chef releases, Jumio funding, and DataStax partners with IBM
Progress has announced its first releases of Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) and Chef Infra Client since acquiring the company in October. The latest version of EAS include Chef Infra Compliance Phase, which allows users to automatically perform compliance audits during Chef Infra Client runs; Chef Infras State Management Dashboards, which allow users to view … continue reading
VMware announces intent to acquire Mesh7
VMware has announced its intention to acquire cloud native API security mesh Mesh7, which will enable it to bring visibility, discovery, and better security to APIs. According to VMware, its customers are engaged in app modernization efforts, and modern apps require reliable connectivity, dynamic service discovery, and the ability to automate changes. In addition, security … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: StackPulse Free, Logz.io’s Prometheus-as-a-Service, and IFS Cloud
StackPulse has announced a free version of its reliability platform, giving developers, DevOps, and SRE teams a more cost effective way to respond to software outages, automate operations, and provide more reliable software. StackPulse Free includes code-based playbooks for automation, and integration into existing monitoring, observability, and communications tools. The other paid version, StackPulse Enterprise, … continue reading
Transposit launches over 200 new integrations to bridge the gap between DevOps and IT Ops
DevOps orchestration company Transposit has announced new pre-built integrations with over 200 services and tools, such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, and GitHub. The company believes that these integrations will help save organizations time and money by eliminating the need for them to build and maintain custom integrations to these services on their own. Teams … continue reading
VMware updates its vRealize Cloud Management portfolio
VMware has announced updates to its portfolio designed to give its customers more capabilities for monitoring, securing, optimizing, and automating their VMware cloud and public cloud services. VMware vRealize Automation 8.4 introduces enhanced public cloud provisioning support, vRealize Automation SaltStack Config integration, network automation with NSX-T migration support, and self-service automation for VMware cloud on … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Dynatrace expands Microsoft partnership, ServiceMax Engage, and IP Infusion updates
Dynatrace has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft to make its observability platform available through the Azure Marketplace. This will make it easier for Microsoft customers to implement Dynatrace’s solution in their Azure and hybrid cloud environments. According to Dynatrace, this partnership also includes joint go-to-market benefits, like the ability for Azure customers to use committed … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Automation Anywhere Automation 360, Linkerd 2.10, and NetApp Astra
Automation Anywhere has announced the release of its new Automation 360 solution. The new tool will enable companies to discover user activities, document business processes, and analyze process variances; automate more processes; digitize by extracting information from business documents, emails and other unstructured data; and generate business and operational insights on bot performance. “The leaders … continue reading
Checkmk 2.0 released with new and updated plugins
Tribe29 has announced the release of Checkmk 2.0. Checkmk is an IT monitoring solution, and this latest release adds new features to help IT teams easily establish monitoring across applications, networks, services, and servers. Checkmk 2.0 adds new and updated plugins for services such as Kubernetes, Proxmox, Nutanix, Jenkins, Jira, Graylog, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, RabbitMQ, Redis, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Dell Hybrid Client, VMware updates, and CrowdStrike acquires Humio
Dell has announced the release of Dell Hybrid Client, which is a centrally managed solution that can be deployed onto Dell mobile and desktop devices. It can be used to grant access to applications and data no matter where an employee lives. It provides endpoint security, simplified workflows, optimized productivity, consistent experiences, cloud provider flexibility, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Pure Storage on Equinix Metal, IBM Cloud Satellite, and Cloudera Data Platform Operational Database
Pure Storage and Equinix have announced the release of Pure Storage on Equinix Metal, which is a Bare Metal as a Service offering. According to the companies, this new solution provisions physical, dedicated, single tenant servers and storage to customers in a fast and easy way. It can eliminate upfront investments in hardware and the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: RHEL 8.1 achieves Common Criteria Certification, Silverfort’s IAM solution for Azure Active Directory, and Spectro Cloud updates
Red Hat has announced that RHEL 8.1 has achieved the Common Criteria Certification. This is the first major security certification RHEL 8 has gotten. “From bare metal servers to expansive hybrid cloud deployments, the operating system is the foundation for modern IT, making platform security even more important when it comes to sensitive environments,” said … continue reading
Veeam Backup & Replication v11 now available
Veeam has announced the latest version of its data protection solution. Veeam Backup & Replication v11 includes over 200 new features and improvements, according to the company. “Veeam released V10 with more than 150 new enhancements just 12 months ago, and now has more than 700,000 downloads. Being able to launch the next version — … continue reading
