ITOps Times news digest: Menlo Security and VMware integrate, Cloudflare and Alibaba Cloud expand Bandwidth Alliance, and KnowBe4 finds 37.9% of untrained users fail phishing test
Menlo Security is partnering with VMware to provide phishing and malware protection for mobile devices. As part of the partnership, Menlo Security’s Global Cloud Proxy Platform will integrate with VMware Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management (UEM). The resulting solution will help protect mobile devices by isolating threats in the cloud before they can reach the … continue reading
BigFix 10 expands endpoint management to the cloud
HCL Technologies is making it easier for companies to manage their endpoints with a new release of BigFix. Available in April, BigFix 10 will allow IT teams to automate discovery, management, and remediation. According to the company, BigFix 10 introduces three main new features: BigFix Insights, Modern Client Management, and Multicloud Management. BigFix Insights allows … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: TriggerMesh
TriggerMesh is a cloud-native integration platform built for the serverless world. The open-source project was designed for integrating cloud-native serverless functions or functions-as-a-service. According to Mark Hinkle, co-founder of TriggerMesh, the solution was inspired by Google’s release of Knative, a Kubernetes-based platform for deploying and managing modern serverless workloads. RELATED CONTENT: TriggerMesh joins Cloud Native … continue reading
COVID-19: Surviving remote work
For years, the view towards remote work has been shifting, especially in the tech industry where remote work is achievable. There are a number of concrete benefits to remote work, according to a 2019 survey from OpenVPN, including higher productivity, less time spent on commuting, improved employee retention, fewer overhead costs, and access to a … continue reading
Cockroach Labs follows up on 2020 Cloud Report with configuration recommendations
In December, Cockroach Labs released its 2020 Cloud Report, which provided benchmarks for each of the major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, and GCP. According to the report, GCP had caught up to AWS in benchmarks, where previously AWS outperformed them by 40% the previous year. The company also found that each cloud vendor had an … continue reading
How businesses can adapt to support remote work for COVID-19 and beyond
COVID-19 is not only quickly spreading across the globe, but it is infiltrating businesses, causing them to clear out their buildings and bring workers online. Unfortunately, most of these businesses are not prepared to handle remote work and the risks that come along with it. While businesses should have disaster recovery and business continuity plans … continue reading
Storj Labs launches enterprise-grade decentralized cloud storage solution
Storj Labs has announced its Tardigrade Decentralized Cloud Storage Service is now generally available. According to the company, the solution is backed by enterprise service level agreements and is S3 compatible, easy to implement and highly available. “Decentralization benefits the cloud in many ways, and our first customers are already seeing how it improves security, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Park Place’s PPTechMobile release, Kofax’ new integration, and Quantum Machines’ latest funding
Park Place has announced a new mobile app that will let IT professionals remotely access maintenance events in their data center and other IT infrastructure. PPTechMobile will have a number of key features from the Park Place customer portal, including the ability to access contracted assets, monitor escalation process, and submit, edit and view incidents. … continue reading
UPDATE: Vendors step in to help newly remote workforces
UPDATED: To help ease the burden on companies as they go remote, a number of companies are releasing new services, or making current services free for a period of time. Here are a few highlights: Atlassian will make its remote-focused software available for free. Companies will now be able to get cloud-based versions of Jira … continue reading
SolarWinds N-central 12.3 now available
SolarWinds N-central 12.3 is now available and it integrates SolarWinds Endpoint Detection and Response capabilities to defend endpoints against nearly every type of attack. If an attack succeeds and a breach occurs, automated quarantine and rollback help ensure recovery is fast and customer downtime is minimal. “Security threats multiply and morph daily, and once a … continue reading
Platform9 announces new SaaS-managed plans for Kubernetes deployment
Platform9 announced new ‘Freedom’ and ‘Growth’ SaaS-managed Kubernetes plans. The new plans enable Kubernetes users and DevOps teams to deploy upstream Kubernetes on any infrastructure of their choice without vendor lock-in or the burden of operational complexity in production. Platform9’s Freedom and Growth plans are aimed at DevOps, ITOps, Platform Engineering, and cloud architects who … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: HashiCorp raises $175 million, Axis Security, and Nutanix Objects 2.0
Multi-cloud infrastructure automation software provider HashiCorp announced a $175 million series E round of funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $5.1 billion. According to the company, the new funding will help it provide multi-cloud infrastructure automation to organizations around the cloud and expand research and development efforts. In addition, it will expand its field, support … continue reading
Nutanix Brings Invisible Infrastructure to Big Data and Analytics
Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced it extended the Nutanix platform with new features for big data and analytics applications, as well as unstructured data storage. These capabilities, part of Nutanix Objects 2.0, include the ability to manage object data across multiple Nutanix clusters for achieving massive scale, increased object storage capacity … continue reading
Rancher Labs to expand Run Kubernetes Everywhere strategy
Rancher Labs has just announced that it has secured $40 million in Series D funding. This funding brings the company’s total funding to data up to $95 million. Rancher will use the money to continue expanding its Run Kubernetes Everywhere strategy. It will continue to innovate in key areas such as heterogeneous cluster federation, fleet … continue reading
