Microsoft previews Identity Overlay Network to further decentralized identity systems
In an effort to strike a balance between the security and self-ownership of blockchains and the massive scale needed to create Decentralized Identifier (DID) systems, Microsoft announced a preview of ION (Identity Overlay Network). ION is a public, permission-less, open network that anyone can use to create DIDs and manage their Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) … continue reading
ServiceNow to Acquire Appsee’s In-App Mobile Analytics Platform and R&D Talent
ServiceNow, Forbes’ No. 1 World’s Most Innovative Company in 2018, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the in-app mobile analytics platform and R&D talent of Appsee, an Israel-based application analytics platform company. With the acquisition of Appsee’s intellectual property and key Appsee talent, ServiceNow will further its mobile application and web browser … continue reading
StorageOS achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification
Storage company StorageOS has announced that it has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification for its StorageOS Operator. StorageOS Operator enable one-click installation and management of the StorageOS storage solution. By having Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification, the company will be able to provide enhanced Day 1 and Day 2 management. “StorageOS offers customers a … continue reading
F5 completes acquisition of NGINX
Just two months after F5 Networks announced its intent to acquire NGINX, the deal has been closed. NGINX will now operate as its own business unit within F5. “Watching the NGINX and F5 teams planning our joint future proved to me that NGINX has found a great home. While there will always be different approaches … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Linkerd
This week’s highlighted open-source project, Linkerd is a service mesh for Kubernetes and other frameworks. It offers runtime debugging, observability, reliability and security without requiring changes to code. Linkerd works by installing a set of ultralight, transparent proxies next to each service instance. The transparent proxies act as highly instrumented out-of-process network stacks, sending telemetry … continue reading
SAP partners with hyperscalers to move more companies to the cloud
SAP is teaming up with cloud providers Amazon, Microsoft and Google as well as global strategic service partners to walk companies through their transition to cloud-based business innovation. The project called Embrace will tailor the core components to each company based on the language and context of their industry. This includes roadmapping the platform, software, … continue reading
MobileIron wants to enable a passwordless future
Security company MobileIron wants to revolutionize the way that organizations handle secrets. Today it introduced a zero trust security platform that uses a mobile device in lieu of a standard username and password. According to MobileIron, this mobile-centric strategy will enable organizations to continually enforce and protect data and provides correlation between the critical signals … continue reading
NeuVector announces new container security risk scores
NeuVector has announced new capabilities that will enable security teams to assess how secure containers are. In its new dashboard, NeuVector will provide security risk scores that will summarize risk factors and offer recommendations on how to improve the score. The score will be comprised of the risk of east-west attacks, ingress and egress connections, … continue reading
Exabeam raises $75 million to accelerate worldwide displacement of legacy SIEM vendors
Exabeam, the Smarter SIEM company, today announced that it has closed $75 million in Series E funding to accelerate worldwide efforts to displace legacy security management vendors. The latest round is jointly led by new investor Sapphire Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, which have collectively backed nearly 40 IPOs. Other existing investors also participated. The … continue reading
PagerDuty Solution for HybridOps facilitates collaboration between DevOps and ITOps teams
PagerDuty has announced a new solution that will enable better collaboration between DevOps and traditional ITOps teams. Often, as organizations transition to DevOps, organizations can get stuck in a state called HybridOps, PagerDuty’s vice president of product Rachel Obstler explained. “It’s like a state of being when part of your organization is transitioning to DevOps … continue reading
Panoptics now available for multi-cloud and on-premise deployment
Crosscode announced that Panoptics Virtual Appliance is now available on all popular clouds and for On-Premise deployments. Users can deploy on-premise on dedicated hardware within Azure, AWS and other cloud environments to physically separate customer data from other tenants and improve security. Panoptics analyzes the impact of any change at the code level across all … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Netdata
This week’s highlighted open-source project is Netdata, which provides real-time performance and health monitoring of systems and applications. According to its documentation, it acts as a metrics collector, time-series database, metrics visualizer, and alarms notification engine. All of these different features are “packaged together in a very flexible, extremely modular, distributed application,” the documentation states. … continue reading
SQream launches IoT Edge Partner Innovation Lab
SQream, the developers of a GPU-accelerated data warehouse called SQream DB, announced the launch of its IoT Edge Partner Innovation Lab. “The SQream Nano Partner Innovation Lab will build on the successful results we have with enterprises around the world, and provide an infrastructure for IoT partners who want to leverage our ability to store … continue reading
How Anthos will be a game-changer for your Kubernetes implementation
The recent announcement of Anthos by Google Cloud is a big move in managing hybrid cloud models. Google strengthens its position in the cloud space, where Azure and AWS are leading with a respectable margin. Anthos is an open-source platform that allows applications to run and migrate on-premises, in the Google Cloud and also with … continue reading
