ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Alamofire
This week’s open source project is Alamofire, which is an HTTP networking library that is written in Swift. The library includes features like chainable requests and response methods; URL, JSON, and plist parameter encoding; authentication with URLCredential, HTTP response validation, and the ability to dynamically adapt and retry requests. In addition to the core Alamofire … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Cloud-native apps lack security, Azure Sentinel, and Cloudflare’s Browser Insights
A recently released report from the IT analysis and research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG )revealed very few companies are using good security practices to protect their cloud-native apps. According to the report, only 8 percent of respondents are securing 75 percent or more of their apps with DevSecOps practices. Sixty-eight percent of companies plan … continue reading
Aryaka adds flexibility to SD-WAN
SD-WAN provider Aryaka announced the release of its global managed SD-WAN service HybridWAN. The new release is designed to bring flexibility to SD-WAN, provide guaranteed performance, effective transport, and an ‘Internet-first’ paradigm. “For enterprises undergoing digital transformation, Aryaka’s new capabilities further ease SD-WAN adoption by offering flexible WAN connectivity and security options,” said Lee Doyle, … continue reading
Report: SOCs fail to keep up with evolving requirements
Data breaches continue to plague businesses as security operations (SecOps) teams and centers fail to protect against many kinds of risks. Micro Focus released its 2019 State of Security Operations Update, which revealed while data breaches have increased more than 50 percent since last year, businesses struggle to recruit talented security professionals and invest in … continue reading
Io-Tahoe: IT organizations have a real FOMO problem
Social media, with its insidious hold on our attention, has turned the fear of missing out, or FOMO, into a major force in our lives. FOMO is the phenomenon in which a person is always worried that something interesting is happening somewhere and they’re not there to experience it. But FOMO doesn’t just happen because … continue reading
Red Hat announces new Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat has released a new enterprise-grade solution that will help companies advance automation at scale. The company announced Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform at this week’s AnsibleFest in Atlanta. The platform is designed to improve operational efficiencies, reduce risk and provide a consistent user experience. In addition, it features integrations with Red Hat Ansible … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: PagerDuty’s machine learning capabilities, Stateless’ software-defined interconnect platform, and hybrid IT monitoring solution Checkmk 1.6
PagerDuty is adding new machine learning capabilities to its platform in order to help IT teams reduce costs and impact from slow downs and outages. According to the company, it takes an average of 80 minutes for teams to respond to an issue. The company’s new solution works to reduce that time to as little … continue reading
Itential launches new API services for Network Infrastructure as Code
Intelligent automation software provider Itential launched its new API services to further Network Infrastructure as Code and help network engineers adopt CI/CD principles for network automation and programmability. “By incorporating a Network Infrastructure as Code approach to automation, enterprises can use Itential’s modern agile software development principles to build, test, validate, and deploy network changes … continue reading
Report: IT organizations aren’t taking the proper measures to avoid downtime
Even though organizations face costly financial repercussions following a brownout or outage, IT organizations aren’t taking the proper measures to avoid downtime. According to a survey released today by LogicMonitor, 51 percent of outages and 53 percent of brownouts are avoidable. LogicMonitor explained that there are six major costs associated with outages: lost revenue, lost … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Harbor
This week’s open-source project of the week, Harbor, is aiming to make working with containers more secure. Harbor is a cloud-native container image registry that stores, signs, and scans container images for potential vulnerabilities. Key security features of the project include security and vulnerability analysis, and content signing and validation. On the management side of … continue reading
Automation, the key to digital transformation
Nowadays customers have high expectations of (online) services and what a business can (or should) deliver. To meet up to those high expectations, businesses need to transform the way they work and think and even their organizational culture. This involves major changes in day-to-day operations. As a result of these changes, customer value will increase. … continue reading
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 is now available
The latest version of Red Hat’s infrastructure as a service solution is now available. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 introduces improvements to performance and cloud security, as well as expanding the ecosystem of supported hardware. According to the company, IT organizations will now be able to “more quickly and more securely support demanding production workloads.” … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: New Relic’s new capabilities, 128 Technology’s Series D, and Datadog’s IPO
At its FutureStack conference in New York, New Relic unveiled new capabilities for its platform, including New Relic Logs, New Relic Traces, New Relic Metrics, and New Relic AI. The company believes these new solutions will help “empower teams with the data they need to move faster and build better digital experiences.” 128 Technology raises … continue reading
Zscaler B2B reduces attack surface of customer-facing Internet applications
Zscaler has announced a new B2B solution that helps reduce the attack surface of customer-facing applications exposed to the Internet. According to the company, Zscaler B2B allows customers to view applications without exposing them to the Internet where they could potentially be attacked. The solution supports multiple identity provider (IDP) configurations, forcing customers to first … continue reading
