Google Anthos expands support for multi-cloud environments
Google Cloud is expanding its multi-cloud platform Anthos to support multi-cloud environments. This will enable organizations to better consolidate their operations and have more options to choose from. In its latest release, it announced support for AWS. “The flexibility to run applications where you need them without added complexity has been a key factor in … continue reading
Azure Archive Storage now allows priority retrieval of offline data
Microsoft has announced the Azure Archive Storage is being updated with new capabilities based on user usage and feedback. Azure Archive Storage is a solution designed to store rarely accessed data. “Since launching Azure Archive Storage, we’ve seen unprecedented interest and innovative usage from a variety of industries. Archive Storage is built as a scalable … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: SolarWinds’ subscription pricing, Google Meet new features, and ForgeRock funding
SolarWinds has announced that it now offers subscription-based pricing for most of their IT management products. The company believes that this change will provide IT teams with greater flexibility and budget predictability. The new pricing model offers many of the same benefits as the original licensing model, including the same level of functionality as purchased … continue reading
Report: Complexity replaces cost as the number one concern for WAN
Complexity and application performance have grown as the biggest concerns for global IT and network practitioners as modern applications become more distributed across on-premise data centers, multiple public clouds and edge locations. This is according to Aryaka’s 2020 State of the WAN study. “The two are interrelated since complexity negatively impacts application performance and therefore … continue reading
GigaSpaces 15.2 comes with new DataOps functionality
The latest release of the in-memory real-time analytics processing platform GigaSpaces is now available. Version 15.2 aims to double performance, introduces the GigaOps Stack, and features improvements to data processing and analytics velocity, reliability and security. According to the company, the release focuses on delivering higher performance for read-intensive workloads, simpler operations to reduce management … continue reading
Aqua Security announces dynamic threat analysis for containers
Aqua Security’s new Dynamic Threat Analysis (DTA) solution was designed to protect container-based environments against malware that can only be detected through dynamic analysis of a running container. The company said that it has seen a sharp increase in sophisticated attacks on containers that use obfuscation and evasion techniques to avoid detection by static scanners. … continue reading
Circonus introduces Kubernetes monitoring solution in Spring 2020 release
Machine data intelligence platform provider Circonus is releasing a new Kubernetes monitoring solution to give IT teams health-based alert capabilities and ability to auto-scale. The monitoring solution is part of the company’s Spring 2020 release, which also features improvements to cloud monitoring, GCP marketplace availability, performance enhancements, and integration with Terraform. The Kubernetes monitoring solution … continue reading
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 now available
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 is now generally available, with new features designed to help organizations achieve more value from other Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions. “Right now, IT organizations need to do more with existing technologies in their established software stack; they need to drive operational stability and maintain service availability, frequently with remote … continue reading
Report: IT spending still increasing despite COVID-19 pandemic
Enterprise IT organizations are still accelerating or maintaining their digital transformation initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent report found 58% of IT leaders expected to significantly or moderately increase annual technology budgets. Additionally, 73% of IT operations and DevOps team leaders are finding value in their digital products and services during this time. The … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: StackRox’ new compliance controls, env0’s cloud management platform, and TriggerMesh certified on OpenShift
StackRox has announced that its Kubernetes security platform now supports compliance controls in NIST 800-53, which is a compliance standard for agencies participating in FedRAMP. FedRAMP-participating agencies can now use StackRox to satisfy NIST 800-53 requirements. “Helping our government and federal agency customers simplify the process of verifying and demonstrating compliance with NIST 800-53 in … continue reading
Pulumi aims to go beyond infrastructure as code in latest release
Modern infrastructure as code company Pulumi has announced Pulumi 2.0 with new capabilities and improvements. “Pulumi is a modern infrastructure as code tool that lets you declare infrastructure using real languages, with a SaaS management console for configuring identities, organizations, and related policies. By using real languages, developers and operators are able to work better … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Keycloak
Keycloak is an open-source identity and access management solution for modern applications and services. The project is sponsored by Red Hat and designed to provide authentication to applications and services with minimum work. The project’s features include: Single-sign on LDAP and active directory Clustering Standard protocols Social login Themes to customize the look and feel … continue reading
PagerDuty: IT teams decreasing incident response time, despite increasing number of incidents
The Covid-19 pandemic is placing added stresses on nearly every industry, but according to data from PagerDuty, IT departments are handling new challenges well. According to their data, IT teams are resolving incidents up to 63% faster now than they were before the crisis, depending on the industry vertical. For example, online learning has seen … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Cohesity Helios mobile app, Dashbird launches, and EnGenius Cloud announces new releases
Cohesity has announced a new mobile app that IT teams can use to manage Cohesity clusters. The Cohesity Helios app provides monitoring of infrastructure health and performance, the ability to manage support cases, and alerts on anomalies. “In today’s always-on business environment, companies need the ability to respond quickly to critical data issues at any … continue reading
