DH2i has announced that DxEnterprise now supports Microsoft Azure shared disks and Azure Disk Storage enhancements. This will help customers eliminate complexity and achieve high availability for SQL Server deployments in Azure. This added support also helps reduce costs and planned downtime, the company explained. “With DxEnterprise, organizations get all of the advantages of intelligent, … continue reading
Google has made a number of new additions to its Anthos platform for running Kubernetes clusters in cloud and on-premises environments. It added Speech-to-Text On-Prem, which leverages Google’s speech recognition models and provides full control over speech data to comply with data residency requirements It also introduced Anthos attached clusters, which let admins manage Kubernetes … continue reading
The latest release of Kubernetes is now available. Kubernetes 1.19 is the second Kubernetes release of the year. According to the team, the gap between Kubernetes 1.18 and 1.19 was the largest of any two Kubernetes releases, at 20 weeks. “The 1.19 release was quite different from a regular release due to COVID-19, George Floyd … continue reading
UnifyID has announced the release of a new biometric authentication solution, GaitAuth. GaitAuth can authenticate users based on the way they walk. According to the company, the solution only needs to capture a few steps from a person to perform the authentication. UnifyID believes that a person’s gait is very unique, as it is a … continue reading
Backup and recovery company BackupAssist has announced that its new solution BackupAssist ER is now generally available. BackupAssist ER is a fully automated disk to disk to cloud backup solution for Windows Servers. The solution will allow users to quickly recover data and systems, both locally and in the cloud. Other features of the solution … continue reading
IBM has revealed its IBM POWER10 processors. This new CPU provides three times the energy efficiency, workload capacity, and container density compared to IBM POWER9. Features of IBM POWER10 include support for multi-petabyte memory clusters, new hardware-enabled security capabilities, and new processor core architectures. “Enterprise-grade hybrid clouds require a robust on-premises and off-site architecture inclusive … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU is continuing through tomorrow. Here are a few more highlights from the event: Datadog updates Live Containers Datadog Live Containers is a solution that provides visibility into containers across an environment. It now provides curated views for Kubernetes applications, which allows users to look at performance data and surface critical information … continue reading
VMware has announced several new updates across its vRealize Cloud Management portfolio. New enhancements include self-driving operations and modern infrastructure automation. The updates are spread across VMware vRealize Automation 8.2, VMware vRealize Automation Cloud, VMware vRealize Log Insight 8.2, VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud, VMware vRealize Operations 8.2, VMware vRealize Operations Cloud, and VMware vRealize … continue reading
The virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU kicked off yesterday, and a number of cloud-native companies announced new offerings and updates to existing products. Here are a few highlights: Carbon Relay launches free, self-service version of Red Sky Ops Red Sky Ops is an AIOps platform that automatically configures and optimizes containerized applications. By making it … continue reading
Networking company Apstra has announced the release of Apstra AOS 3.3. The latest version introduces Intent-Based Network (IBN) capabilities to Juniper Networks, along with other operational and open-networking enhancements. According to Apstra, this version will significantly increase the speed and reliability of networks in data centers. “The monitoring and managing of Data Center operations continue … continue reading
TeamViewer has added a new web monitoring module that lets admins monitor and remotely manage servers, as well as check websites for accessibility and functionality. According to TeamViewer, this will help minimize downtime and missed revenue. “With the TeamViewer Web Monitoring module as part of the ‘Remote Monitoring and Management’ solution, we offer an integrated … continue reading
Infrastructure as Code platform Pulumi has announced new Kubernetes capabilities. The new features include an in-cluster Kubernetes Operator, support for authoring Open Policy Agent (OPA)-based policies, a crd2pulumi tool for creating strongly-typed APIs for Kubernetes CRDs, and a tool for converting YAML manifests to Pulumi Python, TypeScript, Go, or .NET. The new Kubernetes Operator provides … continue reading