ITOps Times news digest: Adaptiva OneSite Cloud, Synopsys’ USB4 IP solution, and Renesas’ new I3C bus extension products
Adaptiva has announced the release of OneSite Cloud. Adaptiva OneSite Cloud allows end users to receive software updates remotely without overwhelming corporate VPNs or WAN/SD-WAN links. Features include software delivery everywhere, internet P2P content sharing capabilities, VPN offload, WAN offload, and BYOD support. Synopsys introduces USB4 IP solution The DesignWare USB4 IP solution includes controllers, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Rancher Labs Longhorn, VMware vSphere 7, and Cloudian releases HyperIQ
Rancher Labs has announced the release of Longhorn, a storage solution for containers. Longhorn provides “an enterprise-grade, vendor-neutral persistent storage solution that supports the easy development of stateful applications within Kubernetes,” Rancher explained. The GA version being released today includes features such as thin-provisioning, non-disruptive volume expansion, cross-cluster disaster recovery volume, live upgrades of Longhorn … continue reading
MicroK8s now natively available for Windows and macOS developers
Windows and macOS developers can now use MicroK8s natively. The Ubuntu team announced developers can interact with kubectl and MicroK8s through the Windows or Mac command line locally, similarly to how they would with Linux. This new capability is meant to provide better development, build, and test workflows on the desktop. MicroK8s is a lightweight … continue reading
premium ITOps Observability Guide
You’ve likely heard the term observability being passed around for the past few years, and you might have assumed that it is just another marketing buzzword for monitoring. And you wouldn’t be alone in that thinking. Some experts would say that “Observability”, “AIOps” and “Application Performance Monitoring (APM)” are just terms used to distinguish between … continue reading
WANdisco releases LiveData Platform for petabyte scale cloud migration to Microsoft Azure
WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the LiveData company, today announced the limited public preview availability of WANdisco LiveData Platform for Azure, a new service offering available on Microsoft Azure exclusively. The WANdisco LiveData Platform features the company’s patented consensus engine which ensures data consistency, accuracy, and accessibility across any environments, be it on-premises, hybrid (on-premise and cloud), … continue reading
Cisco announces intent to acquire ThousandEyes
Cisco announced its intent to acquire ThousandEyes to enhance Cisco’s network performance and monitoring capabilities across the enterprise and into the cloud. ThousandEyes offers deep visibility and insights into the digital delivery of applications and services over the internet. Common tooling and sharing datasets for application and network health will help remove silos, giving IT … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Go CDK
Go Cloud Development Kit (Go CDK) provides libraries and tools that improve the experience of using Go to develop for the cloud. Go CDK was first announced in July 2018. It was created because the Go team at Google began interviewing Go users, and a common theme among the responses was that there was a … continue reading
Report finds major disconnect between technical and business teams on modernization initiatives
A new report has found that nearly three quarters of modernization initiatives fail. The 2020 Mainframe Modernization Barometer report from Advanced suggests that a big obstacle to such projects is a disconnect between priorities of technical and leadership teams. According to Advanced, the primary motivation to pursue a modernization effort varies depending on who you … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Unravel for AWS Databricks, Instana now collects W3C User Timing events, cloudtamer.io enables continuous compliance
Unravel Data has announced new monitoring support for AWS Databricks. Unravel for AWS Databricks provides monitoring, troubleshooting, and application performance management for the platform. Key features of Unravel for AWS Databricks include APM, root cause analysis, and reporting, alerting, and dashboards. Unravel already supported other AWS tools, such as Amazon EMR and Cloudera/Hortonworks on IaaS … continue reading
Unraveling the chaos from the rush to Office 365
Many organizations were forced to expedite their move to Office 365 to provide a better experience for their end users who are now working from home. Teams adoption has skyrocketed to 75 million daily users up from 44 million in March. In fact, on a recent Microsoft earnings call it was announced that they’ve seen … continue reading
PagerDuty announces new automation capabilities
PagerDuty announced new automation and AIOps capabilities to lower costs for developers and IT teams, prevent outages, and improve remote collaboration. “The impact of the pandemic has required companies to pivot overnight, reducing labor and IT costs while still serving their customers’ growing digital needs, and working entirely remotely,” said Jonathan Rende, senior vice president … continue reading
5G will pave the way to ‘Industry 4.0,’ new analysis reveals
New analysis has found the realization and path to Industry 4.0 will be paved by 5G. According to market research company Frost & Sullivan, the integration of 5G in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems will enable high-speed, low-latency and large-volume data transfer. 5G-enabled IIoT systems are currently limited to quality inspections, supply chain management, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Pure Storage’s flexibility programs, Ankura acquires UnitedLex’ MDR business, and Turbonomic’s Turbo Live
Pure Storage has announced new flexibility programs designed to help customers deal with shifting resource demands and new ways of working. Pure as-a-Service is a storage offering that bills customers based on usage, allowing customers to map and manage costs over time without being locked in a long-term contract. This offering is free for the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week: Windows Terminal
Windows Terminal was first announced last year at Microsoft Build, and one year later, Microsoft was able to launch version 1.0 at Build 2020. Windows Terminal is a result of Microsoft wanting to improve the command line experience on Windows without breaking backwards compatibility for its existing consoles and shells. “The Windows Terminal is a … continue reading
