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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
Version 2 of the edge router Traefik is now available. Traefik 2.0 adds TCP support with SNI routing and multi-protocol ports, middleware, a new dashboard and WebUI, and Service Load Balancers that support canary deployments and mirroring. “More than anything, this release shows the importance of the community. Every feature that has been discussed today … continue reading
Today, at its Pure//Accelerate conference in Austin, Pure Storage announced a number of new updates. First, it announced a variety of new AI solutions that will help customers on their AI journeys. It is launching AI Data Hub, which is an end-to-end AI pipeline that was created in collaboration with NVIDIA. According to Pure Storage, … continue reading
Earlier this week, Kong announced that it was releasing a new open-source service mesh, Kuma. Kuma is based on the Envoy proxy, which is an open-source edge and service proxy. “It’s been amazing to see how quickly Envoy has been adopted by the tech community, and I’m super excited by Kong’s new ‘Kuma’ project,” said … continue reading
Sumo Logic wants to help companies stay competitive with the announcement of its new capabilities. Today, the company revealed new features such as dashboard visualization, data enrichment for log, and metric transformation rules. The dashboard visualization feature will give users rich analytics of their metrics and log data. Users will also be able to get … continue reading