DXC Technology acquires IT transformation advisor Virtual Clarity
DXC Technology has announced that it is acquiring Virtual Clarity, which is a provider of IT-as-a-service transformation advisory services. This acquisition will also build on DXC’s acquisition of digital strategy company Luxoft earlier this year. According to DXC, this acquisition will strengthen the company’s ability to assess, design, and manage transformations to the cloud. “I … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenTitan
Google has just announced the release of a new open-source silicon root of trust (RoT) project, OpenTitan. According to Google, open sourcing the silicon chip design will help make it more transparent, trustworthy, and secure. The project is being managed by lowRISC CIC, a collaborative open silicon engineering organization, and supported by Google, ETH Zurich, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1, Logz.io releases Log Patterns, and VMware Tanzu
Red Hat has announced the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Version 8.1 is the first minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The release enhances the manageability, security, and performance of the operating system. It also adds System Roles, which streamlines the process of setting up subsystems for handling specific functions like … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Druva updates, Synopsys and AMD’s partnership, and Sysdig’s Falco + Fluent integration
Druva has announced an expansion to its platform that will help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud. The update includes support for Slack and Microsoft Teams, new advanced backup, recovery and global policy capabilities for AWS workloads, and integrations with ServiceNow, Splunk, and Okta. According to Druva, these latest updates will ensure greater control … continue reading
IDC’s top 10 IT predictions for 2020
We are in an age of massive technological innovation, and as such, the IT landscape is constantly and dramatically changing every year. As we close out 2019, IT analyst firm IDC has released its IT predictions for 2020 and the years that follow. “As more than half the global economy turns digital by 2023, a … continue reading
BigPanda announces major expansion to AIOps platform
BigPanda has announced a major expansion to its AIOps platform. The platform will now enable IT operations, network operations centers (NOC), and DevOps teams to quickly investigate and resolve issues. New features include root cause changes and a real-time topology mesh. The Root Cause Changes feature ingests change data and then uses machine learning to … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Rancher Labs project joins CNCF, Moogsoft Express released, and Kontena Lens 2.3
Rancher Labs has announced that the CNCF has accepted its Longhorn project into the CNCF Sandbox. Longhorn is a container storage solution that helps teams manage stateful workloads in Kubernetes. Longhorn is currently on version 0.6.2 and its key capabilities include enterprise-grade distributed block storage, volume snapshots, built-in backup and restore, live upgrades that don’t … continue reading
Sysdig: Half of containers live for less than five minutes
Container usage has grown in scale, complexity, and density year over year, according to Sysdig’s third annual Container Usage Report. The increase in container adoption highlights the need for companies to understand how to securely operate containers as well as how to prepare for expected growth. According to Sysdig, 50% of containers live for less … continue reading
Report: What is holding back digital transformation?
Traditional IT operations challenges, like conflicts between Dev and Ops, siloed teams, and reactive incident management, are roadblocks to success in a digital world. In a new report called “Adapt or Perish: The OpsRamp Report on Modern IT Operation in the Digital Age,” OpsRamp set out to determine what factors prevent IT teams from embracing … continue reading
CloudEvents moves to the CNCF Incubator
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced that the open source specification CloudEvents has reached version 1.0. The specification has been approved by the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee to move into the CNCF Incubator. CloudEvents is a specification for describing event data in a common form. It was first accepted to the CNCF as a … continue reading
Microsoft greatly expands capabilities for creating and deploying IoT solutions
Microsoft is hoping to make it easier for companies to create and deploy IoT solutions. The company announced new capabilities that will help them fulfill that goal. Microsoft will help customers embrace IoT as a strategy for driving better business outcomes, improving safety by predicting and preventing equipment failures, optimizing smart building for space utilization … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Mantis
In 2014, Netflix developed a platform that would help them get better operational insights in their increasingly complex environment. Today, Mantis helps Netflix engineers better understand the behavior of their applications, which in turn helps them provide a better user experience. Mantis is a platform on which real time stream processing applications can be built. … continue reading
