Grafana Labs raises $24 million for composable observability platform
Grafana Labs just announced the completion of a Series A funding round of $24 million. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Lead Edge Capital. Grafana Labs is known for its open-source projects Grafana and Loki. Grafana allows teams to query, visualize, and alert on metrics and logs. Loki is a … continue reading
Stateless awarded patent for stateless network functionality
Networking company Stateless has announced that it has been awarded a patent (No 10,425,348) for its stateless network functionality. This technology allows for new levels of automation that simplify how businesses can access remote IT services. It also helps them more effectively use computing resources. The patented technology was created by the company’s co-founders, Eric … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: NVIDIA and Microsoft partnership, FogHorn’s low-code OT platform, and HPE joins the IoT Community
NVIDIA and Microsoft have announced a new technology collaboration that is focused on intelligent edge computing. Together the companies will work to help industries better manage and derive insights from data created by retail stores, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, connected buildings, urban infrastructure, and other environments, the companies explained. As part of the partnership, NVIDIA has … continue reading
ONUG Fall 2019: NetBeez’ monitoring solution and Gluware Automation v3.6
The yearly gathering of IT leaders, ONUG Fall 2019, kicked off yesterday in New York City. At the event, IT leaders c0me together to share best practices and insights. The event lasts two days and is stuffed with training workshops, IT executive roundtables, and keynotes. Several companies are also announcing new products or showcasing their … continue reading
Commvault launches SaaS data protection solution Metallic
Data management company Commvault is releasing a new software as a solution that protects on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid file and application data. The SaaS solution, Metallic, has been launched as a separate sub-brand and division from Commvault. It was introduced this week at Commvault GO 2019 in Denver. According to Commvault, Metallic is aimed at … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Dry
This week we’re highlighting an open-source project, Dry, that makes it easier to manage Docker and Docker Swarm. Dry is a terminal application that shows information about containers, images, and networks. For those running Swarm clusters, it also shows information about nodes, service, stacks, and other Swarm constructs. In addition to showing information, it can … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: OpsRamp Fall 2019 Release, Prometheus 2.13, and CloudBees’ Technical Alliance Partner Program
The OpsRamp Fall 2019 Release is now available. According to OpsRamp, this release includes enhancements to event management and intelligent correlation machine learning models. It also adds new multi-cloud infrastructure monitoring capabilities for AWS and GCP. “Our customers have told us that they’d like to have more visibility and control into how machine learning models … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ManageEngine’s ServiceDesk Plus updates, Moogsoft AIOps 7.3, and Syncsort’s event management support
ManageEngine has added enterprise service management (ESM) capabilities to its ITSM solution ServiceDesk Plus. Now, businesses will be able to create and deploy service desk instances to multiple departments. ESM will provide rapid-starts when creating service desk instances, a central ESM portal for end users, and an ESM directory to manage the organization’s users and … continue reading
ONUG and MEF team up to drive SD-WAN standards
In an effort to drive SD-WAN standards IT organization ONUG and international industry consortium MEF are teaming up on a new initiative. Their joint collaboration will help ensure that enterprises have SD-WAN services that are optimized for digital transformation in the hybrid cloud era. “As adoption of SD-WANs accelerates, enterprises will increasingly choose managed services … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Envoy
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is releasing its second Project Journey Report for the graduated project: Envoy, a network proxy that was designed by Lyft and released as open source in 2016. Its first Project Journey Report was for Kubernetes, which was also the first project to graduate from the CNCF. Envoy is typically … continue reading
Red Hat: Open-source adoption increases in IT
Open source seems to be the backbone of modern organizations. This is according to Red Hat’s State of Enterprise Open Source report. “The question today isn’t whether open source software is important to enterprises, especially in infrastructure roles. That’s a given,” the report stated. “The fact that these numbers will be unsurprising to many is … continue reading
Report: Organizations hope AIOps will provide more control over complex IT environments
IT environments are becoming increasingly more complex, but automation can help IT operators break through some of that complexity. BigPanda has released a survey, “The Future of Monitoring and AIOps,” that highlights some of the challenges with navigating such complex environments. “IT operations is at a crossroads, as constant changes to infrastructure and code due … continue reading
