IT disaster recovery planning can no longer be ignored
Gartner claims that the average cost of network downtime is $5,600 per minute, which is $336,000 per hour. In order to prevent costly downtime, organizations should have a disaster recovery (DR) plan in place that lays out what to do in the event of outages or attacks. “When business applications and their underlying data are … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kubernetes Horror Stories
Many organizations are trying to foster a culture of accountability of learning, rather than of blame. This means encouraging people to take accountability for their mistakes and learn from them, while at the same time not making people feel bad for making those mistakes. “The thinking behind assigning blame is that identifying the offender and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Canonical supports Kubernetes 1.15, GitLab 12.0, and Veritas Enterprise Data Services Platform
Canonical has announced full support for Kubernetes 1.15, which was released yesterday, using kubeadm deployments, Charmed Kubernetes, and Microk8s. New features included in Kubernetes 1.15 are quotas for ephemeral storage, extended data sources for persistent volume claims, dynamic persistent volume resizing, and more. “Kubernetes 1.15 includes exciting new enhancements in application, custom resource, storage, and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Foundation to form around osquery, Datical supports AWS and Postgres, and Cloudflare launches free Ethereum gateway
The Linux Foundation has revealed plans to form a new foundation that will support osquery, a project that provides visibility into endpoints. The new foundation will be devoted to growing and maintaining a neutral community around the project. According to the Linux Foundation, developers from Dactiv, Facebook, Google, Kolide, Trail of Bits, and Uptycs, among … continue reading
HPE and Google Cloud team up on hybrid cloud
Organizations are starting to turn to a hybrid cloud solution in order to unlock agility and innovation across clouds. But according to Sandeep Singh, VP of storage marketing at HPE, it is a challenge for IT organizations to support the transformation to hybrid cloud. This is because on-premise and public cloud are two completely different … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Aqua Security 4.2, Gravitational’s Teleport, and DH2i’s DxConnect
Aqua Security has announced the release of version 4.2 of its platform. This release introduces Vulnerability Shield, which is an automated vulnerability and component analysis tool. Vulnerability Shield can generate policies that will detect and block access to vulnerable components. Aqua 4.2 also includes advanced protection for serverless functions, container image scanning by layer, a … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Fluent Bit v1.1.3 and AWS App Mesh update
A new release of Fluent Bit is now available. Fluent Bit is a multi-platform Log Processor and Forwarder that allows users to collect data and logs from various sources and unify them. Fluent Bit v1.1.3 is a minor release for the 1.1 series. It fixes two bugs in the core and plugins. AWS Cloud Map … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Barracuda launches Firewall Insights and VMware acquires Avi Networks
Barracuda has announced the launch of Firewall Insights, an analytics platform for firewalls. Firewall Insights takes in data from firewalls or wide area networks and analyzes it. It then provides actionable insights for the entire network. The solution can be added to any CloudGen Firewall deployment option, which includes hardware appliances, virtual appliances, and cloud … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: IBM’s Razee
IBM is opening up a tool that will help developers deploy and manage applications in Kubernetes clusters. IBM’s new open-source tool, Razee, provides insights into those Kubernetes cluster deployments. According to IBM, Razee addresses one of the major challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes workloads, which is the process of generating inventory and scripts that will … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Tibco’s new cloud functionality, Acronis integrates with ConnectWise Control, and Numerify’s Change Risk Prediction solution
Software company Tibco has announced new functionality for organizations working in hybrid or multicloud environments. New solutions include Tibco Cloud Integration – Connect, Tibco Cloud Mashery, Tibco Cloud Nimbus, Tibco Cloud Spotfire Web Client, and Tibco Cloud Starters Toolkit. “We empower enterprises with hybrid and multi-cloud approaches, using a fundamental cloud-native architecture that enables the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Akamai’s Edge Cloud, SignalFx’ funding, and Wipro partners with Moogsoft
Akamai has announced the release of Edge Cloud, which will streamline and secure the delivery of data to IoT devices. The solution was designed to meet the needs of organizations who are deploying billions of IoT endpoints, as well as to boost the power of in-app messaging, Akamai explained. “Akamai is investing to extend its … continue reading
Azure IoT Hub adds integration with over-the-air update manager
Microsoft announced a new integration with update manager Mender. Mender provides over-the-air (OTA) update management, while Azure IoT Hub provides capabilities for developers to build device management into IoT devices. The new integration will provide a single location for managing device registration. According to Mender, a challenge organizations often run into is building a firmware … continue reading
