Micro Focus releases Hybrid Cloud Management X to improve user experiences
Micro Focus’s HCMX provides cloud service consumption in a single view with analytics-based recommendations for discount management. It also modernizes the user experience with embedded AI and drives down operational costs with unified and accelerated service delivery. “The complexity of multiple tools and catalogs used to create a service, provision and manage its lifecycle and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: GigaSpaces 15.5, SentryOne premium, and ServiceNow and Cisco partner on contact tracing app
GigaSpaces has announced the release of GigaSpaces v15.5. This version has three main focus areas: realizing the value of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, perfecting microservices, and simplifying management and operations. New features include self-balancing capabilities, one-click microservices deployment, schema evolution, object analysis, Index Usage, and one-click connectors to Oracle and Postgres on premise and to … continue reading
Report: More than half of IT teams need improved technology to support remote work
A little more than half of IT teams need improved technology to support a remote workforce and learning environments, according to the new 2020 Pulse report. The areas that need more improvement include better end-user portals for managing inquiries, improved tools for managing remote teams, and increased insight to manage work and resource allocations. When … continue reading
Boomi and Solace team up on native integration modernization connector
The cloud-based iPaaS company Boomi and event streaming and management provider Solace have collaborated on a new native connector designed to help users create better, data-driven user experiences. The PubSub+ Connector for Boomi will give Boomi AtomSphere platform users access to Solace’s PubSub+ Event Portal, an event management toolset for designing, creating, discovering, cataloging, sharing, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: DH2i expands Azure support, Kasten announces Kubernetes Backup and Recovery capabilities, and VMware announces 5G Telco Cloud Platform
DH2i has announced that DxEnterprise now supports Microsoft Azure shared disks and Azure Disk Storage enhancements. This will help customers eliminate complexity and achieve high availability for SQL Server deployments in Azure. This added support also helps reduce costs and planned downtime, the company explained. “With DxEnterprise, organizations get all of the advantages of intelligent, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Jaeger
Jaeger is an open-source distributed tracing system designed to monitor and troubleshoot transactions. “As on-the-ground microservice practitioners are quickly realizing, the majority of operational problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two areas: networking and observability. It is simply an orders of magnitude larger problem to network and debug … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Anthos updates, Fastly acquires Signal Sciences, and Cisco acquires BabbleLabs
Google has made a number of new additions to its Anthos platform for running Kubernetes clusters in cloud and on-premises environments. It added Speech-to-Text On-Prem, which leverages Google’s speech recognition models and provides full control over speech data to comply with data residency requirements It also introduced Anthos attached clusters, which let admins manage Kubernetes … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.19 is now available
The latest release of Kubernetes is now available. Kubernetes 1.19 is the second Kubernetes release of the year. According to the team, the gap between Kubernetes 1.18 and 1.19 was the largest of any two Kubernetes releases, at 20 weeks. “The 1.19 release was quite different from a regular release due to COVID-19, George Floyd … continue reading
The lightweight Kubernetes distribution K3s becomes a CNCF Sandbox project
Rancher Labs has announced its lightweight, production-grade Kubernetes distribution, K3s, has been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project. The CNCF Sandbox accepts projects it believes will be beneficial to the cloud-native community and warrants experimentation. According to Rancher Labs, K3s enables organizations to run Kubernetes in resource-constrained environments, in … continue reading
UnifyID releases authentication solution based on a person’s gait
UnifyID has announced the release of a new biometric authentication solution, GaitAuth. GaitAuth can authenticate users based on the way they walk. According to the company, the solution only needs to capture a few steps from a person to perform the authentication. UnifyID believes that a person’s gait is very unique, as it is a … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: BackupAssist ER, 3CLogic partners with AVANT, and Amazon EBS io2 Volume
Backup and recovery company BackupAssist has announced that its new solution BackupAssist ER is now generally available. BackupAssist ER is a fully automated disk to disk to cloud backup solution for Windows Servers. The solution will allow users to quickly recover data and systems, both locally and in the cloud. Other features of the solution … continue reading
ITOps Open Source Project of the Week: Gemini
The open source project Gemini aims to solve a problem that has frustrated developers since Kubernetes was introduced: the inability to run databases or persistent storage in Kubernetes. To fix this, Kubernetes enablement company Fairwinds built Gemini on the VolumeSnapshot API. The new solution creaties a more robust and user-friendly interface that allows for automated … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: IBM POWER10, Snow Software’s updates, and Elastic 7.9
IBM has revealed its IBM POWER10 processors. This new CPU provides three times the energy efficiency, workload capacity, and container density compared to IBM POWER9. Features of IBM POWER10 include support for multi-petabyte memory clusters, new hardware-enabled security capabilities, and new processor core architectures. “Enterprise-grade hybrid clouds require a robust on-premises and off-site architecture inclusive … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU: Datadog Live Containers, NeuVector compliance templates, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU is continuing through tomorrow. Here are a few more highlights from the event: Datadog updates Live Containers Datadog Live Containers is a solution that provides visibility into containers across an environment. It now provides curated views for Kubernetes applications, which allows users to look at performance data and surface critical information … continue reading
