LogDNA announces new partnerships to streamline logging
LogDNA has announced new partnerships to help developers streamline DevOps workflows and logging. It added new documentation for its integration with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions. LogDNA hopes to help users centralize logs from monolithic applications alongside logs from containerized applications. According to LogDNA, this partnership will help organizations use logs to securely move workloads … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat OpenShift 4.6, AttackIQ and Microsoft Azure Sentinel, and Akamai acquires Asavie
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat OpenShift 4.6. The latest version introduces full stack automation installation of OpenShift on bare metal. This means that OpenShift can be run on any hosting platform. There is also a new Bare Metal Operator that prepares and exposes physical nodes to the OpenShift installer. Other new … continue reading
SolarWinds to acquire SentryOne to bolster database management capabilities
IT management company SolarWinds has announced it is acquiring SentryOne. SentryOne’s portfolio includes solutions for performance monitoring and DataOps on SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and the Microsoft Data Platform. The addition of SentryOne will complement SolarWinds’ existing on-premises and cloud-native database management offerings. It will also amplify and extend the level of support that … continue reading
The Cloud Security Alliance announces new risks, threats and vulnerabilities for migrating to the hybrid cloud
With hybrid clouds now often the starting point for organizations in their cloud journey, management, access control, data use, and service contracts become more difficult with multi-cloud convergence, according to the Cloud Security Alliance in a whitepaper. “Although the hybrid cloud environment seamlessly integrates private and public cloud, bringing onboard new IT capabilities to the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Akri
This week’s highlighted project is Akri, which is a new project from Microsoft for building a connected edge using Kubernetes. According to Microsoft, the edge is made up of an array of sensors, controllers, and microcontroller units (MCU) that produce data and perform actions. In order for Kubernetes to be a versatile tool for edge … continue reading
Computing on the Edge with Kubernetes: Solutions to common issues
The four key considerations for deploying applications to the edge are connectivity, architecture, sizing and scale, according to Mikhail Kozorovitskiy, consulting engineer at Rancher Labs. Kozorovitskiy explained these considerations as well as how to solve common issues they run into at the Computing on the Edge with Kubernetes conference yesterday. According to Kozorovitskiy, the four … continue reading
Puppet to simplify infrastructure configuration compliance policies with Puppet Comply
Puppet has announced a new solution designed to simplify hybrid infrastructure compliance for the Global 5000. Puppet Comply will work in conjunction with Puppet Enterprise to assess, remediate, and enforce infrastructure configuration compliance policies at scale. Additionally, the solution is designed to work across traditional and cloud environments. “In today’s enterprise, CIOs are responsible for … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ServiceNow and Dynatrace integration, Kubermatic 2.15, and IBM and R3 partnership
ServiceNow and Dynatrace have announced a new integration. Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform now connects to the ServiceNow Platform, providing customers of both with increased efficiency through intelligent automation and reduced risk of disruptions through its predictive problem detection and automatic remediation. “Dynatrace is a great partner for ServiceNow,” said Jeff Hausman, vice president and general … continue reading
Cloud Foundry announces project updates around Kubernetes
Today, the Cloud Foundry Foundation announced cf-for-k8s release, KubeCF 2.5 and Stratos 4.2 to ensure that Cloud Foundry’s architecture includes the most modern and cloud-native infrastructure technology. Cf-for-k8s is a Kubernetes-native distribution of Cloud Foundry that blends the Cloud Foundry developer API with popular Kubernetes technologies including Istio, Envoy, Fluentd, and Kubernetes. Version 1.0 also … continue reading
OpenStack Foundation to rebrand as Open Infrastructure Foundation in 2021
The OpenStack Foundation has announced that it is changing its name to Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF) starting in 2021. According to the foundation, this name change reflects the organization’s broad commitment to driving innovations in open source that are needed in order to shape the future of infrastructure software. The OIF’s goal will be to … continue reading
IIC describes new framework for distributed computing in new report
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has published the Industrial Internet of Things Distributed Computing in the Edge Technical Report. The report defines a framework for distributed computing that moves the capabilities of data center-based cloud computing closer to IoT devices at the edge. “In edge computing, data, networking, storage, and computing are distributed throughout layers … continue reading
Report: Most SOCs are using AI and machine learning tools to detect advanced threats
The 2020 State of Security Operations report found that SecOps teams are more often turning to next-generation automation tools to address gaps in security with 93% of respondents saying that they employ AI and ML technologies with the leading goal of improving advanced threat detection. The report was conducted by Micro Focus and CyberEdge Group, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: BMC Helix Control-M, Splunk’s new IT capabilities, and SkyKick’s Cloud Manager
BMC has announced new automation and AI capabilities. It has released BMC Helix Control-M, which is a workflow orchestration platform. The solution provides users with an end-to-end, single view orchestration platform for application, file transfer, and data pipeline workflows. BMC Helix Control-M can seamlessly integrate into hybrid infrastructures and is hosted through AWS, the company … continue reading
Canonical’s MicroK8s now support high availability clustering
Canonical has announced MicroK8s now supports autonomous high availability (HA) clustering. This gives production workloads in cloud and server deployments more resilience. According to Canonical, high availability is achieved once three or more nodes are clusters and the data store migrates automatically between nodes. Canonical hopes that the increased resilience of HA MicroK8s will benefit … continue reading
