Stateless releases software-defined interconnect platform
Stateless has launched its new software-defined interconnect (SD-IX) platform, Luxon. According to the company, Luxon provides visibility, end-to-end automation, and API-driven functionalities, giving customers more control over their endpoints. Luxon provides Layer 3+ network services, including routing, security, and automation to interconnect points, Stateless explained. Other benefits are that it can be used in multitenant … continue reading
OpsRamp survey: AIOps seen as delivering value
There has been a lot of talk about AIOps in the past year, but it looks like the concept is now living up to expectations. AIOps is no longer just a fancy marketing buzzword, explained Bhanu Singh, senior vice president of product development and cloud operations at OpsRamp. According to OpsRamp’s State of AIOps report, … continue reading
Canonical releases consolidated security, compliance, and support offering
In order to help customers keep costs down, Canonical has released a consolidated security, compliance and support offering for open-source infrastructure, Ubuntu Advantage (UA) for Infrastructure. “Aggregating Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, KVM, Ceph and SWIFT security update and support offerings into a single package enables businesses to evolve from traditional infrastructure to private cloud and … continue reading
Sensu announces availability of Bonsai, a monitoring distribution solution for containers, multi-cloud environments
Sensu, Inc., the future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale, today announced the general availability of Bonsai, the Sensu asset index, which makes it easy to package and share monitoring solutions. Because Bonsai is tailor-made for dynamic, ephemeral infrastructure, it can be used to distribute Sensu plugins to container environments in real time. Sensu plugins … continue reading
Pure Storage expands its Evergreen Storage Service
Pure Storage, the data solutions leader that helps innovators build a better world with data, today announced the expansion of its Evergreen Storage Service (ES2) to provide customers with a unified subscription model across hybrid environments. This allows organizations to leverage Pure’s best-in-class storage-as-a-service model on-premises, hosted and in the cloud, without the need to … continue reading
A Cloud Guru raises $33 million in funding
A Cloud Guru (“ACG”) today announced that it has closed a growth equity investment led by Summit Partners, alongside AirTree Ventures and existing investor Elephant. The company, a clear leader in online cloud computing training and talent development, will use the funding to accelerate hiring across the globe, expand its content library with specialized courses and labs taught by a … continue reading
Cisco announces products and partnerships amid push to Wi-Fi 6
Cisco unveiled several products and partnerships geared toward Wi-Fi 6, the new standard for W-iFi networks. This includes new access points across the Catalyst and Meraki portfolios that have programmable chipsets and access to industry-leading analytics capabilities. The access points are multilingual and have the ability to communicate with multiple IoT protocols simultaneously. Also … continue reading
Liqid introduces multi-fabric support for composable infrastructure
In an update to its Command Center software, infrastructure platform Liqid has extended the solution’s ability to compose infrastructure across different fabric types. Command Center enables “dynamic, bare-metal composability utilizing pools off-the-shelf hardware connected across intelligently-managed fabrics,” Liqid explained. Command Center 2.2 will introduce multi-fabric support across all major fabric types, including PCIe Gen 3, … continue reading
Linux Foundation and ETSI find common ground
The Linux Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ETSI, a creator of IT global standards and the EU-registered European Standards Organization (ESO). The organizations agree that joint communication between code collaborators and the standards community is necessary to foster the collation of open source and standards. Faster information-sharing with the standards community will expedite … continue reading
SolarWinds adds password management and privileged client knowledge management to its IT security portfolio
SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced that it has launched SolarWinds Passportal suite—a unified set of password management and privileged client knowledge management tools, adding to its IT security product portfolio. This represents another advance in SolarWinds’ mission to provide products that are purposefully designed to make the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Prometheus
This week’s highlighted open-source project, Prometheus, provides monitoring and alerting for cloud native applications. The project’s main features include a multi-dimensional data model, a flexible query language, autonomous server nodes, and more. In addition, most of Prometheus’ projects are written in Go, which means that they can be easily deployed as static binaries, the Prometheus … continue reading
NS1 open sources its Flamethrower DNS testing tool
DNS and traffic management solution provider NS1 has announced the open source release of its Flamethrower tool for testing, benchmarking, and stress testing DNS servers and networks. Flamethrower supports IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, and DNS over TLS. It also offers experimental support for DNS over QUIC. It generates the queries for tests using a modular … continue reading
TrilioVault 3.2 is now available
Backup and recovery provider Trilio announced today that TrilioVault 3.2 is now available. TrilioVault is an OpenStack backup and recovery solution that can restore workloads in a single click, the company explained. This release adds features that will enable companies with more advanced architectures to use TrilioVault. TrilioVault 3.2 builds off the major upgrades that … continue reading
ServiceMax launches new solution that allows for remote triaging of issues
ITSM provider ServiceMax has announced a new solution that will cut down on unnecessary technician dispatches, often referred to as “truck rolls.” ServiceMax Remote Triage is a new module that uses machine learning to analyze data from multiple sources to identify service issues from a distance. According to ServiceMax, when technicians are dispatched to a … continue reading
