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
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Baetyl
Baetyl is a platform for edge computing that offers a standardized runtime environment and API for building edge applications. It was initially created by Baidu as OpenEdge and is currently an LF Edge Stage 1 project, which indicates projects that “are, or have the potential to be, important to the ecosystem of Top-Level Projects or … continue reading
Report: IT teams feeling overwhelmed by too many tools
IT operations teams are feeling swarmed by the number of tools they use for monitoring. According to a new survey from OpsRamp, a vast majority of respondents (95%) indicated that they use at least five tools on a daily basis. Half of respondents said they used more than 10 tools. These numbers have the potential … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: AWS Proton, Verizon’s Advanced SASE, and new CompTIA Cloud+ Certification Exam
AWS has announced the general availability for AWS Proton, which is a managed delivery service for container and serverless applications. AWS Proton provides teams with management tools, governance, and visibility for providing consistent standards and best practices to manage their deployments. To coincide with the general availability, two new features are being added: support for … continue reading
Vapor IO announces Kinetic Grid and collaboration with VMware
Edge company Vapor IO has announced the launch of Kinetic Grid. Kinetic Grid provides support for applications that operate in edge environments in different locations. Kinetic Grid provides APIs to provide software-controlled infrastructure, telemetry and intelligence. It also supports deployment of public and private 5G networks, Vapor IO explained. “The Kinetic Grid provides the automated … continue reading
Report: Open-source crucial to IoT and edge deployments
Open source is increasingly becoming a crucial foundation of IoT and edge deployments. This is according to the Eclipse Foundation’s 2021 IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption Survey, which found that 74% of organizations use open source in their edge deployments, which is a 14% increase since the foundation’s same survey from 2019. “We recommend people … continue reading
