Report: More than half of network brownouts are discovered by someone other than IT
Unexpected network outages can wreak havoc on a business. Gartner reports the average cost of downtime is $5,600 per minute. A new survey from Netrounds has revealed that over 60 percent of network brownouts are initially discovered by IT’s internal or external customers, not by IT itself. Persistent network brownouts are the third biggest issue … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: MongoDB Atlas on Azure Marketplace, Amazon CloudWatch introduces container monitoring, and Digital Bazaar’s blockchain collaboration
MongoDB Atlas is now available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. MongoDB Atlas is a fully managed global cloud database service, with integrations with Azure services like PowerBI, Azure Databricks, and Sitecore on Azure. Its addition to the Azure Marketplace will make it easier for Azure customers to purchase and use it, the company explained. The cost … continue reading
Open Industry 4.0 Alliance continues growing
Changes are happening constantly in the world of IT, and we’re in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution. Industry 4.0 is a world in which factory machines have wireless connectivity and sensors built in, enabling machines to make their own intelligent decisions. The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance was created in order to accelerate this … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: DebOps
This week’s highlighted open-source project is one that enables you to essentially run your own data center on Debian and Ubuntu servers. According to the project’s website, DebOps is a “set of Free and Open Source tools that let users bootstrap and manage an IT infrastructure based on Debian or Ubuntu operating systems.” DebOps provides … continue reading
CNCF: Kubernetes code diversity indicates a healthy community
It should come as no surprise that Kubernetes has skyrocketed in popularity. Since joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the project has seen widespread adoption and it seems to be all anyone can talk about in the industry. Since it joined the CNCF, the number of companies actively contributing to Kubernetes has grown 2,000 … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: PagerDuty August 2019 release, StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform 2.5, and Wipro and Google Cloud partnership
The August release of PagerDuty is now available. This release focuses on improvements to the mobile app, increases security, and analytics improvements. Its mobile app now features the ability to snooze alert for more than 24 hours, configuration warnings, status updates for business services, and iPad layout improvements. It has improved platform security by introducing … continue reading
US Signal launches new solution to prevent DDoS attacks
US Signal has announced a new solution that will help organizations protect against DDoS attacks. Its Website and Application Security Solution is designed to filter unwanted and malicious traffic before it reaches the customer’s network. According to the company’s 2019 State of Web and DDoS Attacks survey, 83 percent of organizations have been affected by … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Datadog files for IPO, Platform9 raises $25 million, and Micro Focus Policy Compliance Assessor
Datadog has revealed that it has filed for an IPO of Class A common stock. The number of shares and their pricing have not been announced yet. “Congratulations to DataDog for having built a strong business and for filing for an IPO,” said Suresh Vasudevan, CEO of Sysdig. “The success of Datadog illustrates a few … continue reading
VMworld 2019: Dell announces support for VMware PKS, Bitdefender’s GravityZone Security for Virtualized Environments now available on VMware Cloud Marketplace, and more
The 2019 IT conference VMworld kicked off in San Francisco this week, and a number of companies are using the event as an opportunity to show off their latest releases. Prior to the event, VMware also announced intentions to acquire both Pivotal and Carbon Black. According to the company, these acquisitions show VMware’s commitment to … continue reading
SolarWinds Discovery aims to improve software delivery
IT management software provider SolarWinds announced the launch of SolarWinds Discovery, a SaaS-based solution designed to provide organizations with an efficient way to discover, map and improve their software delivery. The solution fully integrates with the SolarWinds Service Desk, allowing IT professionals to proactively address potential risks to IT and to stay compliant with software … continue reading
VMware scoops up cloud-native companies Pivotal and Carbon Black
VMware has officially announced it will be acquiring cloud-native platform provider Pivotal for $2.7 billion. The company first revealed it was in talks with Pivotal earlier this month. The acquisition will help the company grow its Kubernetes offerings. Pivotal recently launched Pivotal Spring Runtime for Kubernetes and is working on Pivotal Application Service for Kubernetes. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Icinga
Icinga offers IT Ops teams an open-source monitoring and metric solution system to keep a check on the entire infrastructure. It monitors performance and availability and will even notify teams of any issues. The core of the monitoring platform recently reached version 2 with checks to network resources, outages and performance data. The most recent … continue reading
Network automation – To plan or not to plan is the question
“A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.” – Confucius As the network evolves into a more dynamic environment due to the introduction of new concepts such as virtualization and software-defined everything, it is becoming imperative that operators automate as much as possible. Whether it be software-defined WAN, data … continue reading
IT Ops news digest: OpenPOWER comes to the Linux Foundation, Storj Labs V3 beta, and Sisense cloud-native architecture
IBM has announced the OpenPOWER Foundation will move under the Linux Foundation. The foundation believes in collaboration with the open-source community to advance open hadware technology and accelerate opportunity. In addition, the company is opening the POWER Instructuion Set Architecture to help hardware and software work together on POWER. IBM will also contribute other technologies … continue reading
