Martin Schroeter to lead IBM’s managed infrastructure company NewCo
A few months after announcing its decision to spin off a new managed infrastructure company, IBM has revealed the new CEO for that company. IBM’s NewCo will be headed by Martin Schroeter, as of January 15th. Previously, Schroeter served as IBM’s senior vice president of global markets, where he oversaw global sales, client relationships and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: BackupAssist partners with Wasabi, Incident Xpress now available, and SentinelOne’s SUNBURST identification tool
BackupAssist has announced it is partnering with storage company Wasabi. This will provide a cheaper and faster solution for customers of both companies, BackupAssist explained. According to BackupAssist, Wasabi offers storage at a fifth of the cost of Amazon S3 and is faster than many competitors. It provides customers currently using a private cloud with … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Dell’s new offerings, Blue Prism and Azure, and IBM survey on IT preparedness
Dell Technologies has announced a number of new products and applications designed to help reimagine the way people work. New products include the Latitude 9420 PC, Dell 34 Curved Video Conferencing Monitors, Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved WUHD Monitor, Latitude 5000 series, Precision 3560, and more. In addition, the company has released updates to its Dell … continue reading
IT operations predictions for 2021
While it’s unlikely many people could have predicted how IT operations would transform in 2020, many thought leaders are looking forward to how the “new normal” will impact IT trends in 2021 and beyond. Many predictions for 2021 build off of the massive digital transformation that companies have already undergone this year. Here are a … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: SolarWinds fix, White Ops acquisition, and Service Workbench on AWS
SolarWinds has released an update related to the SuperNova malware, which is believed to have been used in a recent cyberattack on the United States government. There is a patch for all supported versions of the Orion Platform and a fix for customers on unsupported versions as well. It had initially released hotfixes for the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: IBM acquires Nordcloud, Sysdig achieves SOC Type II Compliance, and Palo Alto Networks helping mitigate SolarWinds vulnerability
IBM has announced it is acquiring European cloud company Nordcloud to further its cloud migration capabilities. Prior to the acquisition, Nordcloud provided its customers with cloud implementation, transformation, and managed services. “Our clients are increasingly taking a more holistic approach to application modernization that allows them to operate across a traditional IT environment, private cloud … continue reading
Google donates $3 million in cloud credits to CNCF to support Kubernetes
Google Cloud is continuing to help fund the Kubernetes project, which it initially created, by donating $3 million in cloud computing credits to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the organization that currently maintains the project. This grant is a continuation of the company’s behavior since 2018, when it started its commitment of investing $3 … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Lens
This week’s highlighted open-source project is Lens, which is an IDE for Kubernetes. It can be used to handle operations, monitoring, development, and debugging in Kubernetes environments. “Lens provides the full situational awareness for everything that runs in Kubernetes. It’s lowering the barrier of entry for people just getting started and radically improving productivity for … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Lynx acquires ITSourceTEK, JetStream DR, and Insyde’s Supervyse Memory/FP
Security company Lynx Technology Partners has announced it is acquiring ITSourceTEK, which is a provider of security threat detection and resolution solutions. The acquisition will enable Lynx Technology Partners to provide a “vertically integrated view of risk” from an organization’s security strategy through its operations. “ITSourceTEK’s security product technical knowledge will bolster our already robust … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes, Tufin supports Google Cloud Platform, and Trend Micro’s cloud-native file storage security
Mirantis has announced the release of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes. This is a part of the company’s planned series of Kubernetes enhancements to its Mirantis Cloud Native Platform. Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes provides an environment for hosting legacy and modern apps. Use cases include network functions virtualization, mobile network operations, and large-scale scientific computing. “Organizations … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: CrowdSec
This week’s highlighted open-source project is CrowdSec, which is a new tool that takes a crowdsourced approach to security automation. It uses a combination of local IP detection and an online community-based IP reputation system to protect networks. According to the team, the tool goes through logs to assess the behavior of IP addresses that … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: New Relic acquires Pixie Labs, Infosys Modernization Suite, and Element Unify
Application monitoring company New Relic has announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Pixie Labs. Pixie Labs is a provider of a Kubernetes observability platform that lets users set all of their applications’ metrics, events, logs, and traces from a single CLI command. New Relic also announced it will be offering a self-managed version … continue reading
