Fluentd graduates from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which sustains open source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus, today announced that Fluentd is its sixth project to graduate, following Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, CoreDNS and containerd. To move from the maturity level of incubation to graduation, projects must demonstrate thriving adoption, a documented, structured governance process, and a strong commitment to community … continue reading
How the lack of Kubernetes experts is hindering Kubernetes adoption
Facts suggest that we are moving toward the broad production adoption of Linux containers. According to Cloud Foundry’s survey, the use of containers in production has grown from 22% in early 2016 to 38% in late 2018. However, with new opportunities come new challenges. Managing growing container workloads leads companies to adopt container orchestration. For … continue reading
Catchpoint introduces managed monitoring service
Catchpoint, the digital experience monitoring (DEM) leader, today announced the launch of the industry’s first fully Managed Monitoring Service Provider offering, designed to help organizations get immediate performance improvement while relieving themselves from the burden of planning, executing, and maintaining a fully developed digital experience monitoring strategy. The Catchpoint Managed Monitoring Service combines synthetic and real … continue reading
Armis raises $65 million for IoT endpoint security
IoT security company Armis has raised $65 million in Series C funding, which brings the company’s funding to-date to $112 million. According to Armis, IoT devices present an expanded attack surface, and there have been recent reports of global companies being affected by ransomware attacks carried out through insecure IoT devices. IoT devices typically don’t … continue reading
Google Anthos cloud-agnostic app management platform launched
Google Cloud announced the release to general availability of Anthos yesterday, an open software platform that allows users to manage workloads across any cloud provider or on-premise installation. Available on the Google Cloud Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine and GKE On-Prem, the software solution is designed for freedom and requires no stack refresh when integrating with … continue reading
Versa Titan provides end-to-end security and management for SD-WAN
Versa Networks is helping organizations simplify the complexity of WAN transformation with the release of a new cloud-managed SD-WAN solution. Versa Titan allows MSPs to provide secure SD-WAN and allows organizations to design, deploy, and operate WAN infrastructure. According to Versa Networks, the solution is easy to use and enhances visibility into vulnerabilities, application behavior, … continue reading
SignalFx to launch cloud infrastructure monitoring platform backed by AWS App Mesh
Cloud infrastructure monitoring company SignalFx will support Amazon Web Services App Mesh when its platform launches later this year, allowing for expanded infrastructure visibility, the company announced. SignalFx’s platform is meant to complement the efforts of Site Reliability Engineers and operations teams with streaming intelligence to assist with problem detection and troubleshooting, backed by AWS … continue reading
Google Cloud Next: XMatter’s new incident response tool, Cohesity’s backup-as-a-service, and Harness’ availability in GCP marketplace
Google Cloud’s annual conference for IT professionals, Google Cloud Next, is taking place this week in San Francisco, and a number of companies are using the event as an opportunity to showcase new solutions and updates to existing ones. Here are some of the highlights: XMatters launches a new tool for incident response XMatters has … continue reading
Bitdefender adds new threat intelligence services
Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader protecting over 500 million systems across 150 countries, today announced it is expanding its strategy and portfolio to include a more services-oriented approach, starting with threat intelligence services. Managed Security Service Providers, security consulting companies, and large enterprises seeking better visibility into the threat landscape can now integrate Bitdefender Advanced … continue reading
Juniper Networks extends SD-WAN solution to the cloud
Juniper Networks is giving IT professionals a new way of managing and securing WAN infrastructures. The latest version of Contrail Service Orchestration offers a cloud-delivered version of its existing SD-WAN solution. The new solution not only provides management and security features for the WAN infrastructure, but also LAN and Wi-Fi networks deployed with it. Benefits … continue reading
IBM Demos Project Eirini Preview for Kubernetes Deployment on Cloud Foundry
IBM has released the technical preview of a new open source tool that will allow deployment of Kubernetes clusters in Cloud Foundry-based application runtime environments. IBM demonstrated the Project Eirini beta at last week’s Cloud Foundry Summit in Philadelphia. Project Eirini aims to overcome a key hurdle in running Kubernetes in Cloud Foundry PaaS environments … continue reading
CRI-O now an incubating project at the CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has accepted a new project to its incubator. CRI-O is a lightweight implementation of the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface (CRI). It was designed to enable the use of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) runtimes and images, the CNCF explained. “CNCF hosts a variety of container runtimes and we’re excited … continue reading
Google expands its Compute Engine offerings with new VMs
Google Cloud is expanding its Compute Engine offerings with new Compute-Optimized VMs and Memory-Optimized VMs, both of which are based on second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors. “Whether you’re running compute-bound applications for HPC or large, in-memory database applications like SAP HANA, you need the right mix of compute resources for the job, while also keeping … continue reading
RackWare launches Hybrid Cloud Platform to remove barriers to enterprise cloud adoption
RackWare, Inc., the leader in enabling comprehensive cloud computing management in the enterprise, today launched its Hybrid Cloud Platform. As a single provisioning and management solution, this cloud management platform is specially designed to unify functionality and leverage it across three solution areas: cloud migration, disaster recovery and backup, and hybrid cloud management. RackWare’s Hybrid … continue reading
