ITOps Times news digest: Sumo Logic’s Cloud SIEM solution, TeamViewer’s free IoT solution, and Infoblox and Nutanix announce partnership
Sumo Logic has announced the release of a new Cloud SIEM Enterprise offering. According to Sumo Logic, this solution will include a number of capabilities that will ease the burden placed on SOC personnel. Highlights of the solution include improved analyst productivity, focused and guided workflows, 360-degree visibility, and elastic scalability. “We believe organizations will … continue reading
SolarWinds improves application troubleshooting in latest AppOptics release
IT management software provider SolarWinds has announced updates to its infrastructure and APM solution, AppOptics. With this latest update, AppOptics will make “application troubleshooting simpler, faster, and more accurate.” This release introduces service- and trace-level root causes analysis, helping to lower the complexity of APM and lower the barrier to entry. This new functionality will … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: NEW Veeam Availability Suite v10, OpenSSH 8.2, and Snowflake on Google Cloud
The latest version of Veeam’s backup and recovery solution is now available. NEW Veeam Availability Suite v10 features data protection for Networked Attached Storage (NAS), Multi-VM Instant Recovery for automating disaster recovery, and enhanced ransomware protection. “v10 is the biggest release in the history of Veeam, and the enhancements we’ve made take data protection to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: GXF
LF Energy, a branch of the Linux Foundation focused on accelerating decarbonization goals of the energy and electricity sectors, has announced the release of a new open-source project. Grid eXchange Fabric (GXF) is an IoT platform that enables grid operators to “securely collect data and monitor, control, and manage smart devices on the grid.” The … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Nutanix Karbon 2.0, SaltStack Enterprise 6.2, and InsightEdge on Google Cloud Platform
Nutanix Karbon 2.0 is now available. Karbon is used to simplify the configuration, deployment, and life cycle management of Kubernetes clusters. The new version features a number of upgrades, including integration with Nutanix Prism, support for air-gapped environments, and push-button Kubernetes upgrades. More information is available here. New versions of SaltStack Enterprise, SaltStack Protect, and … continue reading
Report finds companies turn to automation to support digital transformation efforts
As more companies accelerate their digital transformations, many are turning to automation and shifting the responsibility for app services onto IT teams, according to F5’s 2020 State of Application Services Report. According to F5, there are four key areas being automated: app infrastructure, app services, network, and security. Thirty-seven percent of respondents claimed that they … continue reading
Transitioning to SRE
Over the years, there have been a lot of new methodologies that aim to help an organization manage their technology more efficiently, whether that means making programmers more efficient or the operators who manage a company’s technology infrastructure. DevOps, which sought to bring developers and operators together, is one such example of this, and one … continue reading
Report: IT transformation efforts blamed for outages/brownouts
LogicMonitor believes that the move to the cloud comes at a price. Gartner predicts that 40% of workloads will be in the public cloud by 2025, but according to LogicMonitor’s IT Downtime Detection and Mitigation Report, there are unknown costs, such as underestimating costs and a shortage of IT professionals. Many companies also believe that … continue reading
Eclipse Foundation launches Sparkplug Working Group
The Eclipse Foundation has announced it is launching the Sparkplug Working Group. This group will help drive the evolution and adoption of the Eclipse Sparkplug Specification, which enables the creation of open and interoperable IIoT solutions using the messaging protocol MQTT. Founding members of the group include Chevron, Canary Labs, Cirrus Link Solutions, HiveMQ, Inductive … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Astro
Fairwinds just open-sourced its Astro project, which provides an API for understanding and managing Datadog monitors. Astro’s GitHub page states that it is an “operator that emits Datadog monitors based on Kubernetes states. The operator responds to changes of resources in your kubernetes cluster and will manage Datadog monitors based on the configured state.” Related … continue reading
OpsRamp raises $37.5 million to grow its AIOps platform
AIOps company OpsRamp has announced that it has closed a $37.5 million funding round. The company explained it will use this new funding to scale its discovery, monitoring, and automation platform. “The business opportunity for OpsRamp is tremendous,” said Varma Kunaparaju, co-founder and CEO of OpsRamp. “Modernizing legacy IT operations management, technology debt, and supporting … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: NGINX Controller 3.0, ServiceNow acquires Passage AI, and Nuweba announces seed funding
F5 Networks has announced the release of NGINX Controller 3.0. NGINX Controller is a tool used for load balancing, API management, analytics, and service mesh. Version 3.0 is the first major release of the tool since F5 acquired NGINX. “This is our first major product introduction since we joined forces with F5 in May, and … continue reading
