Latest version of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now available
Red Hat has announced the latest release of its Ansible Automation Platform. This release includes Ansible Tower 3.7, an automation services catalog, and updates to Automation Analytics. Ansible Tower 3.7 introduces new capabilities designed to help reduce bottlenecks in job processing, optimizations for common API query processing, and reworked user interface communication protocols. The automation … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Teradata DRaaS, Pepperdata autoscaling, and NEXCOM’s LAN bypass
Teradata has announced that its Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering is now available on Vantage on Amazon Web Services and Vantage on Microsoft Azure. Teradata DRaaS provides customers with a Teradata managed environment in the cloud that can be spun up quickly if their on-premise environment goes down. Teradata plans to add support … continue reading
ServiceNow acquires configuration data management company Sweagle
ServiceNow has announced that it is acquiring data management company Sweagle. According to ServiceNow, this acquisition will help the company bolster its DevOps and IT Operation Management capabilities. “With capabilities for configuration data management from Sweagle, we will empower DevOps teams to deliver application and infrastructure changes more rapidly while reducing risk,” said RJ Jainendra, … continue reading
HashiCorp to power automated infrastructure management in multi-cloud environments
HashiCorp has announced a new solution that will enable IT operators to automate infrastructure management in the cloud. HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) allows customers to provision, secure, connect, and run cloud-based infrastructure with little to no operational burden. “HashiCorp tools are used and operated by many community members and customers, but managing clusters and maintaining … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: AWS Snowcone, Intel’s new processors, and EfficientIP’s cloud management solution
Amazon has introduced a new device to its AWS Snow Family of edge computing devices. AWS Snowcone is the smallest device in the family, at 4.5 pounds. It offers 8 terabytes of usable storage. According to Amazon, AWS Snowcone is particularly well suited for tight spaces or scenarios where portability is important. It can be … continue reading
FortressIQ announces partnership with Blue Prism
FortressIQ has announced a new partnership with RPA company Blue Prism, bringing together the capabilities of the two companies, including business process discovery, intelligent automation, and operational analytics. According to FortressIQ, a major challenge to large-scale digital transformation is the lack of detailed knowledge on the current state of activities in an organization. “Most organizations … continue reading
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
