Microsoft Inspire 2019: Azure Lighthouse, Azure Migration Program, and more
Microsoft is making a number of updates and announcements surrounding its cloud platform Azure at Microsoft Inspire in Las Vegas this week. The annual event is an opportunity for the company to share their direction for the upcoming year. Announcements included: Microsoft Azure Lighthouse Microsoft has announced the release of Azure Lighthouse. With Azure Lighthouse, … continue reading
BitTitan’s Voleer to provide automation for IT service providers
Automation company BitTitan is empowering IT service providers (ITSPs) with a new IT automation platform, Voleer. The solution was launched this morning at Microsoft Inspire 2019, currently taking place in Las Vegas, NV. With Voleer, the company explained IT professionals will be able to more easily package and sell solutions. This in turn will help … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Ansible
As more businesses are feeling the pressure to move faster, automation across all areas of the business is becoming a necessity. For IT operations professionals, there is a simple tool for enabling automation: Ansible. The solution automates tasks like cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and intra-service orchestration. “Ansible makes complex changes like zero-downtime rolling … continue reading
AWS Summit New York: Cloud Development Kit, EventBridge, and Alluxio 2.0
AWS Summit New York is taking place today, bringing together the cloud community to collaborate and learn about AWS. Amazon and other companies are also using the event as an opportunity to launch and showcase new products. Here are a few highlights from AWS Summit New York: AWS Cloud Development Kit Amazon has announced the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Linkerd 2.4, Barracuda’s Cloud Security Garden, and Juniper’s Juke
A new version of the Kubernetes service mesh Linkerd is now available. Linkerd 2.4 adds features such as traffic splitting, support for the Kubernetes Service Mesh Interface, and high-availability support. Traffic splitting enables users to control the percentage of traffic that goes to a service. This can be useful in implementing rollout strategies such as … continue reading
Marriott fined $124 million for 2018 data breach
When the GDPR went into effect last May, many in the industry questioned how strict enforcement would be. As of February this year, the EU had only issued 91 fines across 59,000 data breaches. At the beginning of the year, Lev Lesokhin, EVP strategy and analytics at Cast Software, predicted that how the EU handles … continue reading
Google Cloud to acquire Elastifile for its file storage capabilities
Google Cloud is bolstering its file storage capabilities with a new acquisition. The tech giant has officially entered into an agreement to acquire Elastifile for its file storage capabilities. Google Cloud believes that file storage is crucial to infrastructure. Therefore, file storage should be a priority for customers who are looking to accelerate their digital … continue reading
The Cloudflare outage shouldn’t have happened in this era of automation
Last week, Cloudflare suffered a major outage, bringing down a significant portion of the Internet. Users of websites that have implemented Cloudflare’s services were greeted with a 502 error for about 30 minutes last Tuesday morning. According to Cloudflare, the outage was caused by a rule misconfiguration in the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) during … continue reading
Microsoft and ServiceNow announce new partnership
Microsoft and ServiceNow have announced a new partnership that will enable enterprise and government customers to accelerate digital transformation, while driving new levels of insight and innovation. The two companies also hope that by partnering up, they can optimize each others’ products, platforms, and cloud capabilities. “There is an enormous opportunity for customers — including … continue reading
HashiCorp Consul 1.6 will feature Layer 7 traffic management and a new service mesh gateway
Today at HashiConf EU, HashiCorp announced two new features for its networking solution Consul. Now available in beta, HashiCorp Consul 1.6 will be generally available later in the summer. Layer 7 traffic management was one of the new features announced today. It will allow for dynamic routing at the application layer, which will support various … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Amazon Elasticsearch Service increases snapshot frequency, ManageEngine’s ADManager Plus gets new features, and BitTitan introduces Microsoft Teams migration capabilities
Amazon Elasticsearch Service will now provide snapshots on an hourly basis, where previously it only did daily snapshots. Amazon believes that this change will provide more granular recovery points for organizations. Hourly snapshots will be automatically enabled on Elasticsearch version 5.3 or higher and the snapshots will be retained for 14 days. ManageEngine adds new … continue reading
Three questions to ask to ensure hybrid cloud compliance
As we continue to try to exist in a world where data breaches are commonplace occurrences, organizations have to ask more questions when it comes to storing data. This is especially true when data is being stored with a third party. Companies need to comply, not only with their own internal rules, but with external … continue reading
