Forrester reveals how COVID-19 will continue to impact businesses and tech with 5 trends
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Forrester predicts major changes for businesses and technology over the next decade. The company identified five major trends in a new report: The New Unstable Normal: How COVID-19 Will Change Business and Technology Forever. “The pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we do business,” said Stephanie Balaouras, vice president and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: IBM and Verizon Business collaboration, Linux Foundation Kubernetes course, and i2Coalition and Domain Name Association merge into new group
IBM and Verizon Business have announced that they will be collaborating on 5G and AI edge solutions. The partnership will leverage Verizon’s 5G and edge capabilities and IBM’s experience in AI, hybrid multicloud, edge computing, asset management, and connected operations. “This collaboration is all about enabling the future of industry in the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” … continue reading
Platform9 announces new Kubernetes capabilities
Platform9 announced new capabilities for enterprise-managed Kubernetes solutions to accelerate deployment and ease-of-use. The new capabilities include managed Calico networking with API support, application wizard for rapid bare-metal deployments, and multi-cluster observability and alerting for more accurate troubleshooting. These features are now available, including support for Kubernetes release 1.17, for all Platform9 customers of the … continue reading
Google Cloud Next: Customer to Community, Confidential VMs, and BigQuery Omni
Google kicked off its reimagined Google Cloud Next even this week. The event is now entirely online, and will be going on for the next nine weeks, until September 8. The event features over 200 sessions and ways to connect with Google engineers, including 1:1 time. “As we’re all navigating through unprecedented times, bringing together … continue reading
Citrix and Microsoft announce new partnership to provide consistent access to applications from wherever
Citrix and Microsoft announced that they are joining forces to help organizations accelerate the move to the cloud along with the adoption of digital workspaces and virtual desktops. The agreement stems from the widespread move to permanent remote work models and the companies’ goal to rethink how organizations can adapt to new remote ways of … continue reading
Two-thirds of IT decision makers plan on increasing investments in automation due to COVID-19
Nearly two-thirds of US IT decision makers plan to increase their investments in automation technology over the next year as a result of COVID-19, according to a recent study by Opinion Matters and Inference Solutions. About a quarter of organizations will increase their investments by 10% or higher. “Cloud-based, self-managed platforms that give businesses more … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: McAfee ESM Cloud, xMatters’ incident analytics, and RiskSense updates
McAfee is launching a new security and information event management (SIEM) system called McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) Cloud. This new solution supports security team activities like detection, incident response, and threat hunting. “Today’s SecOps teams face a multitude of issues, including the need to take on new efforts such as digital transformation, the convergence … continue reading
Freshworks acquires IT orchestration company Flint
Freshworks completed its key acquisition with Flint to bring advanced automation and cloud management capabilities for IT teams in the remote work era. With the acquisition, Freshworks can now leverage intelligent automations to provision IT resources, rapidly remediate business-critical incidents and automate workloads using out-of-the-box connectors to popular service providers including Microsoft, VMware, Amazon, Google, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tsunami
Google is open-sourcing its network security scanning engine in the hopes of helping organizations protect data. Tsunami is designed to detect high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence. “When an attacker begins to exploit security vulnerabilities or security misconfigurations, such as weak passwords, an organization needs to react quickly in order to protect potentially vulnerable assets. … continue reading
Operator Framework joins CNCF as incubation-level project
The CNCF has announced that it will be bringing on the Operator Framework as an incubation-level project. The Operator Framework is a toolkit for managing Kubernetes Operators, which are extensions of Kubernetes that make it easier to package, deploy, and manage Kubernetes applications. The Operator Framework, first developed in 2016 by CoreOS which is now … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: LogDNA funding, Oracle’s fully-managed cloud region, and Aryaka and 8×8’s partnership
LogDNA has announced it closed a Series C funding round totaling $25 million, bringing the company’s funding to date to $60 million. The round was led by Emergence Capital with participation from Initialized Capital, Providence Equity, TI Platform Management, Radianx Capital, Top Tier Capital Partners, and Trend Forward Capital. The company also announced that it … continue reading
IBM to acquire RPA company WDG Automation
IBM has announced that it will be acquiring Brazilian robotic process automation (RPA) company WDG Automation. IBM plans to use WDG Automation’s RPA capabilities to bolster its own AI-enabled offerings. According to IBM, COVID-19 has placed a lot of pressure on organizations to drastically transform their operations. RPA can help with that digital transformation by … continue reading
CNCF accepts Contour as an incubation-level project
Contour, an ingress controller for Kubernetes that provides a control plane for Envoy, was accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an incubation-level hosted project. “One of the most critical needs in running workloads at scale with Kubernetes is efficient and smooth traffic ingress management at the Layer 7 level. Getting an application … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ServiceNow and Zoom, Exabeam and Armis, and Avaya’s subscription program
ServiceNow and Zoom have entered into a partnership to improve work-from-home experiences. Zoom will deploy ServiceNow’s Now Platform, which includes new AIOps capabilities. In addition, Zoom will expand its implementation of ServiceNow’s Customer Service Management (CSM), which it deployed in April. “Zoom has enabled employees across industries around the world to stay connected, and it’s … continue reading
