ITOps Times news digest: Cloudify 4.6, Pulumi Crosswalk, and Edgewise Networks’ one-click microsegmentation
Network orchestration provider Cloudify has announced the release of version 4.6. According to the company, this version is built around providing a module service composition. New features include scheduled and resumable workflows, an upgraded OpenStack plugin, a community plug-in contribution guide, and performance improvements. Pulumi Crosswalk now available Pulumi has announced a new framework that … continue reading
Report: Organizations are struggling to keep up with events in SIEM systems
Organizations seem to be struggling with keeping up with the events in their security incident and event management (SIEM) systems. According to Exabeam’s State of the SOC report, only five percent of respondents believe that they see 100 percent of events in their SIEM system. But that statistic should be taken with a grain of … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: OneLogin’s new security program, Domo and Zendesk partnership, and SSH.COM’s PrivX solution now free
OneLogin has announced a new security program to help organizations gain insights into their business applications. The new program includes Cloud Security Risk Workshops and Cloud Risk Assessment. According to OneLogin, these new tools will “help businesses measure and contextualize their cloud security needs.” “Assessments and Workshops are powerful tools that help companies quickly identify … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud, Google Cloud responds to outage, and Postmates open sources Configurable Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
IBM has announced the general release of its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). According to IBM, VPC allows customers to “manage virtual machine-based compute, storage, and networking resources in a private, secure space you define.” VPC provides the logic isolation and security offered by private clouds, while also providing the availability, cost-effectiveness, and scalability of the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Instaclustr’s anomaly detection experiment
Detecting anomalies is crucial to the security of critical data, and Instaclustr just launched a new open-source project that will make it easier to detect those anomalies. The project was built out of a desire to see how far it could scale data-stack technologies like Apache Cassandra and Apache Kafka. It can be challenging to … continue reading
Kubernetes celebrates its fifth birthday, reflecting on its massive growth
The popular container orchestration tool Kubernetes is celebrating its fifth birthday today. It was first introduced by Google in June 2014, and it didn’t take long for others to see the potential of the tool. By August 2014, major companies such as Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Docker, and CoreOS had joined the Kubernetes community. “Kubernetes … continue reading
ITOps Times Blog: Edge computing will require massive changes in cloud infrastructure
Edge computing is still in its early days, but it will require massive changes in infrastructure before it will take off. Edge is another one of those terms that has many different definitions, especially at this early stage. But the most basic textbook definition of edge is one that encompasses the set of latency-sensitive applications, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat OpenShift 4, Google Cloud’s compute pricing updates, and BMC’s new analytics and automation capabilities
Red Hat has announced the general release of OpenShift 4. In this release, Red Hat rearchitected the way that OpenShift gets installed, updated, and managed. It also introduced advanced day 2 management and automation. According to Red Hat, this release is all about bringing Kubernetes to the core of OpenShift. “As transformational as our open … continue reading
AIOps Manifesto lays out best practices for deploying AIOps
The newly created AIOps Exchange has just announced the release of its AIOps Manifesto. The AIOps Manifesto will provide best practices for deploying AIOps solutions. The paper was co-authored by experts from the AIOps Exchange steering community. The authors are requesting feedback on the manifesto, as well as open debate on the topics discussed. They … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Signal Sciences integrates with Cisco Threat Response, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 beta, and SentinelOne raises $120 million
Signal Sciences has announced a new integration with Cisco Threat Response in order to better help its customers defend against web app attacks. The integration will give customers instant visibility into their web application attack data, enabling security teams to respond to threats quickly. “In today’s evolving business landscape, we are seeing a dramatic shift … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Catchpoint DEX Sonar, Trifacta’s Snowflake integration, and AppDynamics’ new partner program
Catchpoint has announced a new solution that will bring together real user, active, and device monitoring into a single solution. DEX Sonar provides end-to-end visibility into the Digital Employee Experience (DEX), Catchpoint explained. “Employees are increasingly reliant on SaaS applications, so disruptions like outages or slowdowns equate to lost productivity, employee dissatisfaction, and potentially lost … continue reading
Survey finds security concerns are urging more companies to adopt SDN
Network security is at the top of most IT decision makers’ minds and security concerns may be driving organizations to adopt software-defined networking (SDN). Juniper Networks recently surveyed 500 IT decision makers to understand their SDN journeys. According to Juniper Networks’ survey, many organizations see security as a big consequence of not adopting SDN. Forty … continue reading
