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
Elastic releases ECK 1.0 to simplify day 2 Kubernetes operations
Elastic has announced that its Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) is moving out of beta. It was first announced in May 2019, with the goal of providing an official way for orchestrating Elasticsearch on Kubernetes and providing a SaaS-like experience for Elastic products on Kubernetes. Other steps Elastic has taken to respond to the massive … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Sidekick
This week’s Open Source Project of the Week can be useful in preventing bottlenecks in systems. The project, Sidekick, is a sidecar load-balancer. System admins can attach Sidekick to client application processes. According to the project, by attaching tiny load balancers to those processes, admins can eliminate load balancer bottlenecks. It also offers DNS failover … continue reading
ServiceNow introduces AI and analytics capabilities in latest release of Now Platform
ServiceNow has announced the Orlando release of its Now Platform. This latest release introduces Now Intelligence, which is a set of AI and analytics capabilities. “People should be able to work the way they want to, not the way that most software today dictates they have to,” said Chirantan “CJ” Desai, chief product officer of … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: HPE Small Business Solutions, SolarWinds integrates with the Orion Platform, and 2nd Watch’s enterprise analytics service
HPE has announced new IT subscription-based services targeting small businesses and remote locations. The company announced HPE Small Business Solutions, which include HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus with automation, remote management and security capabilities; and Intel Pentium and Intel Xeon E processors. “We are committed to helping small businesses innovate, serve their customers, and drive … continue reading
vSphere 7 brings essential services for the modern hybrid cloud
VMware launched vSphere 7 to provide essential services for the modern hybrid cloud. It is the biggest release of vSphere in over a decade, according to VMware. It delivers the rearchitecting of vSphere with native Kubernetes that the company introduced at VMworld 2019 as Project Pacific. “Using vSphere 7 and VMware Cloud Foundation, you can … continue reading
The Linux Foundation takes on open-source hardware disaster relief project
Almost two years ago, IBM called on companies to develop solutions to help deal with the aftermath of natural disasters. The winner of that first Call for Code event was Project Owl, an IoT solution that helps connect first responders and victims following such an event. Now, the Linux Foundation has announced that it will … continue reading
Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 accelerates petabyte-scale object storage for cloud-native workloads
Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 offers enhanced scalability and simplicity for data-intensive applications. It offers simplified, petabyte-scale object storage for cloud-native development and analytics. In recent tests, Red Hat Ceph Storage delivered a doubled performance increase for write-intensive workloads. “As modern data workloads add stress and complexity to storage infrastructure, it’s critical to automate housekeeping … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Stateless releases Luxon Dynamic Network Programmability, DisruptOps’ Series A, and DriveScale supports OpenStack
Network connectivity company Stateless has announced the release of Luxon Dynamic Network Programmability, which is a P4-programmable switch ASIC. This will be included as part of its software-defined interconnect (SD-IX) platform. Specific features of Luxon include horizontally scalable clusters, IPsec load balancing, tenant-level elasticity, VXLAN parsing, fine-grained QoS, and future proofing with new interface protocols … continue reading
HPE Container Platform now generally available
HPE has announced that the HPE Container Platform is now generally available. The company first announced this solution in November. According to HPE, the HPE Container Platform will support cloud-native and non-cloud-native applications using Kubernetes, running on bare-metal or virtual machines, in data centers, in public clouds, or at the edge. The main advantages of … continue reading
Cyber insurance: A crucial part of any cybersecurity strategy
The threat landscape has been expanding rapidly, and companies are under immense pressure to respond. A lot of companies are investing in trying to prevent attacks, but as evidenced by the massive influx of data breaches and cyberattacks, it’s impossible for a company to predict 100% of possible attacks. That’s where an emerging market is … continue reading
Business continuity planning during COVID-19
Every IT organization needs to have a disaster recovery and business continuity plan in place. That’s not a new concept, but with the global emergence of a new strain of coronavirus, dubbed COVID-19, now is a good time to revisit those plans and ensure that your company can continue operating even in the worst-case scenario. … continue reading
