IT spending to drop by 15.5% this year, recent data shows
IT spending has dropped by 8% this year due to the effects of the coronavirus outbreak, and is expected to keep going down, according to data from investment company LearnBonds. Companies are expected to drastically cut down on their technology budgets to only essential IT costs. By the end of 2018, global spending on IT … continue reading
Cisco ACI 5.0 now available
Cisco has announced the general availability of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) 5.0. Cisco ACI 5.0 introduces new features for service providers, simplified multicloud deployments, Day 2 operations tools, and user experience improvements. “It is more important than ever to have a network that is automated and secure from the edge, to the data … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Cohesity’s subscription pricing, Microsoft’s new VMs, and Centrify’s ServiceNow plugin
Cohesity has announced a consumption-based subscription pricing plan. With the new pricing model, users will only be charged for the data management services used. Prior to this, customers would have to pre-purchase blocks of capacity. “More companies are embracing a consumption-based approach in order to reduce capital costs and to make adjustments on the fly … continue reading
StarlingX now a top-level OSF project
The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) has announced that StarlingX is now one of their top-level open infrastructure projects. StarlingX is an edge infrastructure platform that can be used to build edge clouds. It utilizes components from other open source projects like Ceph, Linux, KVM, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. The project was first created in May 2018 as … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Starboard
This week’s selected open-source project of the week is a Kubernetes toolkit from Aqua Security called Starboard. Starboard integrates Kubernetes tools into the Kubernetes experience in order to provide a unified security experience. “What if all the Kubernetes security tools spoke the same language that everyone knows and understands? Similar to the standardized and well-known … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Syntax CxHub, NinjaRMM 4.6, and 1Password and Rippling partnership
Syntax is releasing a Customer Experience Hub (CxHub) to give IT administrators better visibility into their IT resources, support tickets, and billing details. Customers will be able to handle a number of different tasks through CxHub, including monitoring servers, workstations, databases, network storage, etc.; starting and stopping servers; comparing line-item invoices; and filtering infrastructure resource … continue reading
Linkerd 2.8 introduces multi-cluster connectivity
The latest version of Linkerd is now available. Linkerd 2.8 adds a multi-cluster extension to the service mesh. This allows Kubernetes service to be connected across cluster boundaries in a secure way. Linkerd’s multi-cluster functionality aims to meet four goals: Provide a unified trust domain Separate failure domains Support heterogeneous networks Provide a unified model … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Menlo Security partners with Microsoft, VIAVI and 3Z announce new toolkit, and Harness releases Continuous Efficiency
Menlo Security has announced that it is partnering up with Microsoft through the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP). MAPP provides early access to vulnerability information to allow software providers to more quickly provide protections to their customers. “Menlo Security is pleased to partner with Microsoft to incorporate protections against newly discovered vulnerabilities before they are … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Adaptiva OneSite Cloud, Synopsys’ USB4 IP solution, and Renesas’ new I3C bus extension products
Adaptiva has announced the release of OneSite Cloud. Adaptiva OneSite Cloud allows end users to receive software updates remotely without overwhelming corporate VPNs or WAN/SD-WAN links. Features include software delivery everywhere, internet P2P content sharing capabilities, VPN offload, WAN offload, and BYOD support. Synopsys introduces USB4 IP solution The DesignWare USB4 IP solution includes controllers, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Rancher Labs Longhorn, VMware vSphere 7, and Cloudian releases HyperIQ
Rancher Labs has announced the release of Longhorn, a storage solution for containers. Longhorn provides “an enterprise-grade, vendor-neutral persistent storage solution that supports the easy development of stateful applications within Kubernetes,” Rancher explained. The GA version being released today includes features such as thin-provisioning, non-disruptive volume expansion, cross-cluster disaster recovery volume, live upgrades of Longhorn … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Go CDK
Go Cloud Development Kit (Go CDK) provides libraries and tools that improve the experience of using Go to develop for the cloud. Go CDK was first announced in July 2018. It was created because the Go team at Google began interviewing Go users, and a common theme among the responses was that there was a … continue reading
Report finds major disconnect between technical and business teams on modernization initiatives
A new report has found that nearly three quarters of modernization initiatives fail. The 2020 Mainframe Modernization Barometer report from Advanced suggests that a big obstacle to such projects is a disconnect between priorities of technical and leadership teams. According to Advanced, the primary motivation to pursue a modernization effort varies depending on who you … continue reading
