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
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
