OpsRamp aims to build confidence in machine learning models with OpsQ
Automation is becoming ever more important for IT operations teams, and OpsRamp has announced a new solution that aims to make AIOps even easier. OpsQ is designed to provide intelligent event management, alert correlation, and remediation. The company hopes that this solution will help build confidence in machine learning models for IT. According to the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Moogsoft 7.2, Cockroach Labs’ new partnerships, and StorageCraft ShadowXafe
AIOps provider Moogsoft has announced an update to its platform. According to the company, Moogsoft 7.2 introduces capabilities to optimize service assurance, such as a new workflow engine, AI visualization, performance dashboards, and tool integrations. “Our goal is to make Moogsoft the solution of choice for all enterprises – large and small – for agile, … continue reading
Twistlock, PureSec acquisitions enable Palo Alto Networks to expand into container, serverless security markets
Security company Palo Alto Networks is expanding its security capabilities with the acquisition of both Twistlock and PureSec. Twistlock specializes in container security, while PureSec is focused on serverless security. These acquisitions align with yesterday’s announcement of Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma cloud security strategy. Prisma is a cloud security suite that will provide customers with … continue reading
Docker suffers from race condition flaw
It has been revealed that all Docker versions are vulnerable to a symlink-race attack. A CVE-2018-15664 vulnerability was found by software engineer Aleksa Sarai who submitted the bug to the Docker security team. “The basic premise of this attack is that FollowSymlinkInScope suffers from a fairly fundamental TOCTOU attack. The purpose of FollowSymlinkInScope is to … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Kofax’s Intelligent Automation Platform, ThreatLocker partners with ConnectWise, and Ethernity Networks’ Universal Edge Platform
Kofax has announced the release of a new intelligent automation platform. The platform will enable organizations to automate operations across the entire business. This allows organizations to make customer, supplier, and employee interactions more productive, Kofax explained. The platform features five key technologies: Robotic Process Automation, cognitive capture, process orchestration, advanced analytics, and mobile and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Arm’s new processors, Tools4ever partnership with Blackboard, and ConnectedYou joins the IoT Community
Hardware provider Arm has announced the release of new processors it says is better suited for a 5G world. The new Cortex-A77 CPU provides advanced machine learning capabilities, the Mali-G77 GPU offers a new architecture for mobile experiences, and the Arm Machine Learning processor has been improved with increases to energy efficiency and memory compression. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: AWS Ground Station, AWS Backup supports AWS CloudFormation, and Velero 1.0
In order to provide a more cost effective method for downloading satellite data, AWS has launched AWS Ground Station. AWS Ground Station allows customers to control satellites and download data from them into AWS Global Infrastructure Regions using a managed network of ground station antennas, the company explained. According to AWS, satellites are being used … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenTelemetry
The OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects are merging to form a new project called OpenTelemetry. OpenTracing provides APIs and instrumentation for distributed tracing, and OpenCensus allows for the collection of telemetry data. OpenTelemetry will allow telemetry to become a built-in feature in services. RELATED CONTENT: KubeCon EU: CircleCI’s new partnerships, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, and Gravity 6.0 According … continue reading
Instana announces support for On-Prem version of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Instana, the leading provider of automatic Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for microservice applications, today became the first APM solution provider to announce support for the On-Prem version of Google’s Kubernetes Engine (GKE), a part of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). “Application teams need flexibility in their platform choices, especially as they implement and roll … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Terraform 0.12, Barracuda’s Advanced Bot Protection, and AWS Config’s new pricing plan
HashiCorp has announced the release of Terraform 0.12, which is a major update to the product. Key updates include first-class expression syntax, generalized type system, iteration constructs, structural rendering of plans, and context-rich error messages. HashiCorp noted that there are still some providers that don’t have 0.12-ready releases yet. HashiCorp has published a guide for … continue reading
Amazon EKS updates its version life cycle for security purposes
In order to make Amazon EKS more reliable for users, Amazon is making changes to its version life cycle. For security purposes, it will be deprecating Kubernetes 1.10 on July 22, 2019. Kubernetes 1.13 will be available in EKS a month earlier, in June. In a blog post explaining the decision, Nathan Taber, senior product … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Veeam Availability Orchestrator v2, Citrix Workspace on Google Cloud, and Tenable’s Cyber Exposure ecosystem
Veeam Software has announced that it is expanding its orchestration capabilities in the latest release of the Veeam Availability Orchestrator. Version 2 will allow organizations to address a wider range of disaster recovery and data migration use cases. Specific new features include the ability to more easily prove SLA attainment; leverage backup and replica data; … continue reading
Snyk: Container security requires changes in culture more than changes in technology
The main challenge organizations will face securing their containers is not the technical part, but the cultural and organizational changes. This is according to a recently released report from Snyk that focused heavily on the current state of Docker security. The report revealed that half of the top 10 free certified Docker images have known … continue reading
Chef updates Enterprise Automation Stack with app operations dashboards
Chef has announced a number of improvements to its Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS), which it first announced last month after open sourcing all of its software. The new updates will make it easier for customers to deliver and secure infrastructure. “Code is the language of collaboration for the modern, high-performing enterprise. Chef’s Enterprise Automation Stack … continue reading
