ITOps Times news digest: DataBank acquires LightBound, Cohesity SmartFiles, and Continuum Fortify for MSPs
Data center provider DataBank has completed its acquisition of LightBound, which provides colocation, Internet, voice, network, and cloud services. This expands DataBank’s portfolio of edge data centers, with two new enterprise-class facilities totaling over 56,000 square feet of colocation space. The data centers are located in the Indy Telecom Center, located in Indianapolis. “Our investment … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Alamofire
This week’s open source project is Alamofire, which is an HTTP networking library that is written in Swift. The library includes features like chainable requests and response methods; URL, JSON, and plist parameter encoding; authentication with URLCredential, HTTP response validation, and the ability to dynamically adapt and retry requests. In addition to the core Alamofire … continue reading
Io-Tahoe: IT organizations have a real FOMO problem
Social media, with its insidious hold on our attention, has turned the fear of missing out, or FOMO, into a major force in our lives. FOMO is the phenomenon in which a person is always worried that something interesting is happening somewhere and they’re not there to experience it. But FOMO doesn’t just happen because … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: PagerDuty’s machine learning capabilities, Stateless’ software-defined interconnect platform, and hybrid IT monitoring solution Checkmk 1.6
PagerDuty is adding new machine learning capabilities to its platform in order to help IT teams reduce costs and impact from slow downs and outages. According to the company, it takes an average of 80 minutes for teams to respond to an issue. The company’s new solution works to reduce that time to as little … continue reading
Report: IT organizations aren’t taking the proper measures to avoid downtime
Even though organizations face costly financial repercussions following a brownout or outage, IT organizations aren’t taking the proper measures to avoid downtime. According to a survey released today by LogicMonitor, 51 percent of outages and 53 percent of brownouts are avoidable. LogicMonitor explained that there are six major costs associated with outages: lost revenue, lost … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Harbor
This week’s open-source project of the week, Harbor, is aiming to make working with containers more secure. Harbor is a cloud-native container image registry that stores, signs, and scans container images for potential vulnerabilities. Key security features of the project include security and vulnerability analysis, and content signing and validation. On the management side of … continue reading
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 is now available
The latest version of Red Hat’s infrastructure as a service solution is now available. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 introduces improvements to performance and cloud security, as well as expanding the ecosystem of supported hardware. According to the company, IT organizations will now be able to “more quickly and more securely support demanding production workloads.” … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: New Relic’s new capabilities, 128 Technology’s Series D, and Datadog’s IPO
At its FutureStack conference in New York, New Relic unveiled new capabilities for its platform, including New Relic Logs, New Relic Traces, New Relic Metrics, and New Relic AI. The company believes these new solutions will help “empower teams with the data they need to move faster and build better digital experiences.” 128 Technology raises … continue reading
Zscaler B2B reduces attack surface of customer-facing Internet applications
Zscaler has announced a new B2B solution that helps reduce the attack surface of customer-facing applications exposed to the Internet. According to the company, Zscaler B2B allows customers to view applications without exposing them to the Internet where they could potentially be attacked. The solution supports multiple identity provider (IDP) configurations, forcing customers to first … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.16 now available
The latest release of the container orchestration platform Kubernetes is now available. Kubernetes 1.16 is the third release of the project this year, and it includes 31 enhancements. According to the Kubernetes release team, the main themes of this release are custom resources, overhauled metrics, and volume extension. The team has made custom resource definitions … continue reading
Oracle OpenWorld: Oracle’s Microsoft Teams integration, Eclipse Che 7, and Toad for Oracle 13.2
Oracle OpenWorld kicked off yesterday in San Francisco. Oracle used the event to reveal some of its latest offerings, such as Autonomous Linux and Java 13, but a number of other companies are also using the event to announce new products. Oracle expands partnership with Microsoft Oracle also announced an expansion of its partnership with … continue reading
Five teams from Sigfox’s Hacking House to grow into startups
Hackathons, boot camps, and other education-focused coding events can help developers learn new things and improve their skills. Sometimes the work produced at these events can even lead to new companies. Such is the case with IoT company Sigfox’s three-month Hacking House program. Throughout the program, developers work to solve real world problems. It recently … continue reading
