ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Xen Project Hypervisor
With their newest release, the team behind Xen Project Hypervisor 4.12 says that it is focusing on security and reducing code size in the open-source virtual machine monitoring platform. In a blog post, the team outlined the plans and their additional focus on renewed x86 architecture support, features for embedded and automotive, and more. “This … continue reading
Progress Software acquires Ipswitch for data transfer and network management capabilities
Progress Software has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Ipswitch, a provider of secure data file transfer and network management software. Ipswitch’s products enable small and medium-sized businesses to securely share data and ensure high availability. More specifically, its MOVEit solution allows customers to securely transfer data; its WhatsUp Gold solution … continue reading
Report: Over half of IT professionals feel their job is having a negative effect on their well-being
IT operations has a real people problem. A majority of the people working in IT roles are unhappy, in part due to their jobs, according to a survey from ITSM solutions provider SysAid. The survey, “The Future of ITSM 2019,” was based on responses from 339 IT professionals. The survey found that there was a … continue reading
PagerDuty update focuses on faster incident response and team management
Incident response company PagerDuty released a new version of its SaaS orchestration platform today, introducing features aimed at helping users address service disruptions more quickly. Updates include machine learning-powered analytics, expanded “enterprise-wide” communication and an improved end-user experience, the company wrote in an announcement. “Operational complexity is making it crucial that technical responders and business … continue reading
Latest release of ActiveBatch focuses on security for IT automation
In an effort to help organizations more effectively secure their systems, Advanced Systems Concepts (ASCI) has added new security enhancements to its IT automation tool ActiveBatch. “Growing numbers of cyberthreats have driven organizations to take novel approaches to adopting security solutions,” says Ben Rosenberg, president of Advanced Systems Concepts, in a statement. “The latest release … continue reading
Pure Storage acquires Compuverde for file capabilities
Pure Storage, the data solutions leader that helps innovators build a better world with data, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Compuverde, a leading developer of file software solutions for enterprises and cloud providers based in Sweden. Compuverde will expand Pure Storage’s file capabilities, enabling enterprises to take advantage of … continue reading
Chef to open-source all of its software, creates Enterprise Automation Stack
Chef, makers of infrastructure-as-code software, today announced it is moving all of its software to open source, and introducing a new commercial distribution that bundles its portfolio of products as the Chef Enterprise Automation Stack. The code for its five products — Chef Infra, InSpec, Habitat, Automate and Workstation — is in public GitHub repositories … continue reading
Veeam relaunches free-to-use VM backup offering
Users can backup and replicate up to 10 of their VMware, Hyper-V and AHV virtual machines for free with the release of Veeam Backup and Replication Community Edition. The company says that the new offering replaces the now-cancelled Veeam Backup Free Edition and opens up new capabilities to free users. The company wrote in a … continue reading
Joint data synchronization RPA utility launched by BMC and Automation Anywhere
Multi-cloud management company BMC is partnering with Automation Anywhere to extend robotic process automation capabilities in BMC’s Helix cognitive automation for service desk processes. “The BMC Helix offering integrates with Automation Anywhere’s intelligent RPA platform, which combines sophisticated RPA, AI, and embedded analytic technologies,” the company wrote in the announcement. “Automation Anywhere’s RPA technology uses … continue reading
Microsoft prepares for Hannover Messe with Azure IoT integrations for manufacturing
In the lead-up to the Hannover Messe 2019 industrial technology event next week, Microsoft released updates for many of its industry-focused products and services, all aimed at providing businesses with a path towards “Industry 4.0.” The paradigm would see artificial intelligence, mixed reality and automation leveraged to achieve “intelligent manufacturing,” the company explained in a … continue reading
F5-NGINX deal and how it might impact emerging service mesh architectures
While F5 Networks claimed its recent deal to acquire NGINX will “bridge the divide” between DevOps and NetOps, the acquisition also promises to accelerate both companies’ goals to create new service mesh architectures. In agreeing to acquire NGINX for $670 million, F5 is paying a premium for a rival with $26 million in revenues last … continue reading
Report: Edge computing will grow as global data volume grows exponentially
The speed of data proliferation and the need for tailored data means that edge computing will become even more important in the coming years, according to a newly published report. The report, called “Data at the Edge: Managing and Activating Information in a Distributed World,” is produced by edge computing experts from Vapor IO, Packet … continue reading
Uber’s Peloton resource management utility released as open-source
Uber Engineering released its resource scheduling and management utility Peloton as open source today. According to company engineers, Peloton was developed to fill a missing niche in Uber’s internal software suite, allowing web-scale compute cluster management, resulting in improved resource utilization across its infrastructure. Min Cai, Compute Cluster Platform senior staff engineer at Uber, and … continue reading
New monitoring, cluster management options launched with Elastic Stack 6.7
Search provider Elastic launched version 6.7 of its Elastic Stack suite, featuring the release of real-time services and application monitoring platform Elastic Uptime, the release to general availability of a number of Elasticsearch features, as well as updates for the platform’s new Maps feature. Elastic Uptime, based on Elasticsearch’s Heartbeat plug-in, is a monitoring tool … continue reading
