ITOps Times news digest: Linkerd 2.3.1 and OneLogin Accelerate growth
The latest version of the Kubernetes service mesh Linkerd is now available. Version 2.3.1 features proxy stability improvements. A few of the improvements include changes to the proxy’s routing behavior, a new dispatch time limit to limit the amount of time that a request can be buffered, and various bug fixes. Full release notes are … continue reading
Report: Security is the biggest concern for those running containers
While container adoption continues to accelerate, companies continue to struggle with things like security and data management. Portworx’s annual Container Adoption Survey showed that 87 percent of respondents were running containers, which is up from just 55 percent in 2017 and from 80 percent in 2018. Of those, 90 percent were running containers in production. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Azure Deployment Manager’s health checks, AWS CloudFormation update, and NGINX Unit 1.9
Microsoft announced new partnerships with service health monitoring companies in its Azure Deployment Manager. The Deployment Manager enables users to perform rollouts of resources on a region per region basis. Health checks for the service were announced at Build this year, allowing it to integrate with service health monitors to automatically stop deployment that are … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Terraform
HashiCorp’s open-source project Terraform is increasingly becoming more popular as organizations look for new ways to create and maintain infrastructure. Terraform is designed to write, plan and create infrastructure as code. In Thoughtworks’ latest technology radar, the company dubbed it the “de facto choice for creating and managing cloud infrastructures by writing declarative definitions.” While … continue reading
Report: Only half of organizations are currently deploying Kubernetes in production
Despite its seemingly large presence, Kubernetes may not be as widely adopted as it seems. Platform9 conducted a survey at KubeCon EU in Barcelona this month, speaking with over 500 attendees. Through the survey, the company said it was able to understand how companies are currently using Kubernetes. The survey revealed that despite the fact … continue reading
OpsRamp aims to build confidence in machine learning models with OpsQ
Automation is becoming ever more important for IT operations teams, and OpsRamp has announced a new solution that aims to make AIOps even easier. OpsQ is designed to provide intelligent event management, alert correlation, and remediation. The company hopes that this solution will help build confidence in machine learning models for IT. According to the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Moogsoft 7.2, Cockroach Labs’ new partnerships, and StorageCraft ShadowXafe
AIOps provider Moogsoft has announced an update to its platform. According to the company, Moogsoft 7.2 introduces capabilities to optimize service assurance, such as a new workflow engine, AI visualization, performance dashboards, and tool integrations. “Our goal is to make Moogsoft the solution of choice for all enterprises – large and small – for agile, … continue reading
Twistlock, PureSec acquisitions enable Palo Alto Networks to expand into container, serverless security markets
Security company Palo Alto Networks is expanding its security capabilities with the acquisition of both Twistlock and PureSec. Twistlock specializes in container security, while PureSec is focused on serverless security. These acquisitions align with yesterday’s announcement of Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma cloud security strategy. Prisma is a cloud security suite that will provide customers with … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Kofax’s Intelligent Automation Platform, ThreatLocker partners with ConnectWise, and Ethernity Networks’ Universal Edge Platform
Kofax has announced the release of a new intelligent automation platform. The platform will enable organizations to automate operations across the entire business. This allows organizations to make customer, supplier, and employee interactions more productive, Kofax explained. The platform features five key technologies: Robotic Process Automation, cognitive capture, process orchestration, advanced analytics, and mobile and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Arm’s new processors, Tools4ever partnership with Blackboard, and ConnectedYou joins the IoT Community
Hardware provider Arm has announced the release of new processors it says is better suited for a 5G world. The new Cortex-A77 CPU provides advanced machine learning capabilities, the Mali-G77 GPU offers a new architecture for mobile experiences, and the Arm Machine Learning processor has been improved with increases to energy efficiency and memory compression. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: AWS Ground Station, AWS Backup supports AWS CloudFormation, and Velero 1.0
In order to provide a more cost effective method for downloading satellite data, AWS has launched AWS Ground Station. AWS Ground Station allows customers to control satellites and download data from them into AWS Global Infrastructure Regions using a managed network of ground station antennas, the company explained. According to AWS, satellites are being used … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenTelemetry
The OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects are merging to form a new project called OpenTelemetry. OpenTracing provides APIs and instrumentation for distributed tracing, and OpenCensus allows for the collection of telemetry data. OpenTelemetry will allow telemetry to become a built-in feature in services. RELATED CONTENT: KubeCon EU: CircleCI’s new partnerships, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, and Gravity 6.0 According … continue reading
