Report: SREs need more observability
Site reliability engineers (SREs) are failing to include observability into their process. A new report revealed only 53% of respondents have an observability tool. The top tools SREs are using include monitoring and alerting, dashboarding, and infrastructure as code. Additionally, when asked about key responsibilities, SRE’s ignored key aspects of observability such as events, metrics … continue reading
Latest version of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now available
Red Hat has announced the latest release of its Ansible Automation Platform. This release includes Ansible Tower 3.7, an automation services catalog, and updates to Automation Analytics. Ansible Tower 3.7 introduces new capabilities designed to help reduce bottlenecks in job processing, optimizations for common API query processing, and reworked user interface communication protocols. The automation … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Teradata DRaaS, Pepperdata autoscaling, and NEXCOM’s LAN bypass
Teradata has announced that its Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering is now available on Vantage on Amazon Web Services and Vantage on Microsoft Azure. Teradata DRaaS provides customers with a Teradata managed environment in the cloud that can be spun up quickly if their on-premise environment goes down. Teradata plans to add support … continue reading
ServiceNow acquires configuration data management company Sweagle
ServiceNow has announced that it is acquiring data management company Sweagle. According to ServiceNow, this acquisition will help the company bolster its DevOps and IT Operation Management capabilities. “With capabilities for configuration data management from Sweagle, we will empower DevOps teams to deliver application and infrastructure changes more rapidly while reducing risk,” said RJ Jainendra, … continue reading
HashiCorp to power automated infrastructure management in multi-cloud environments
HashiCorp has announced a new solution that will enable IT operators to automate infrastructure management in the cloud. HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) allows customers to provision, secure, connect, and run cloud-based infrastructure with little to no operational burden. “HashiCorp tools are used and operated by many community members and customers, but managing clusters and maintaining … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Open Horizon
This week’s featured open-source project promises to transform edge computing as we know it. The Open Horizon software project is an application management solution for constrained devices. “Open Horizon lives on the network edge, and typically on constrained devices. Open Horizon is designed to help place your software as close as possible to where the … continue reading
Google Cloud sets up advanced network threat detection with Packet Mirroring
Packet Mirroring, Google’s solution to enhance threat detection in public cloud environments, is now generally available. The feature offers full packet capture, which allows users to identify network anomalies within and across VPCs, internal traffic from VMs to VMs, traffic between end locations on the internet and VMs, and also traffic between VMs to Google … continue reading
Veeam Availability Orchestrator v3 now available
Veeam has announced the latest release of the Veeam Availability Orchestrator. Veeam Availability Orchestrator v3 adds full recovery orchestration support for NetApp ONTAP snapshots. With this addition, organizations are able to ensure the continuity of their IT services at any scale from Veeam-powered backups and array-based replication. It also offers capabilities such as automatic testing, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: AWS Snowcone, Intel’s new processors, and EfficientIP’s cloud management solution
Amazon has introduced a new device to its AWS Snow Family of edge computing devices. AWS Snowcone is the smallest device in the family, at 4.5 pounds. It offers 8 terabytes of usable storage. According to Amazon, AWS Snowcone is particularly well suited for tight spaces or scenarios where portability is important. It can be … continue reading
Bitglass strengthens integration with Duo Security
Bitglass announced a deepened integration with Duo Security to balance enterprise-grade access control and data protection with a user experience designed to support a global, remote, and multi-device workforce, according to the companies in a post. Bitglass’ Next-Gen Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) provides end-to-end security and comprehensive visibility over corporate data, limits sharing, prevents data … continue reading
FortressIQ announces partnership with Blue Prism
FortressIQ has announced a new partnership with RPA company Blue Prism, bringing together the capabilities of the two companies, including business process discovery, intelligent automation, and operational analytics. According to FortressIQ, a major challenge to large-scale digital transformation is the lack of detailed knowledge on the current state of activities in an organization. “Most organizations … continue reading
IT spending to drop by 15.5% this year, recent data shows
IT spending has dropped by 8% this year due to the effects of the coronavirus outbreak, and is expected to keep going down, according to data from investment company LearnBonds. Companies are expected to drastically cut down on their technology budgets to only essential IT costs. By the end of 2018, global spending on IT … continue reading
Cisco ACI 5.0 now available
Cisco has announced the general availability of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) 5.0. Cisco ACI 5.0 introduces new features for service providers, simplified multicloud deployments, Day 2 operations tools, and user experience improvements. “It is more important than ever to have a network that is automated and secure from the edge, to the data … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks launches ML-powered firewall
Palo Alto Networks launched an ML-powered Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) with PAN-OS 10.0, which embeds machine learning in the core of the firewall to proactively assist in intelligently stopping threats, securing IoT devices, and recommending security policies. Palo Alto Networks stated that by bringing these industry firsts into a single system, organizations can protect against up … continue reading
