DevOps World | Jenkins World: The building blocks of cloud-native application development
Cloud-native applications are on the rise. In fact, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation recently released a report that found the use of cloud-native technologies in production increased more than 200 percent in the last couple of months. However, Justin Graham, senior manager of market strategy and ecosystem development for AWS, finds that the more a … continue reading
Linkerd 2.0 from CNCF enters general availability, now a “service sidecar”
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has launched version 2.0 of Linkerd, which provides service discovery, routing, failure handling, and visibility for applications. This release introduces a more incremental scale and features “improvements to performance, resource consumption, and ease of use,” the company said in the announcement. The company explained that the project has been reconfigured … continue reading
premium Why it’s time to finally ditch the Big Four in ITOM
In July 2018, Broadcom announced its plan to acquire CA Technologies for nearly $19 billion. While analysts have furiously debated the merits of a chip manufacturer buying an enterprise software company, the CA acquisition heralds a momentous shift in the $25 billion IT operations management (ITOM) software market. For more than two decades, four technology … continue reading
Cloudian joins the iROD Consortium
Enterprise data storage company Cloudian has joined the iRODS Consortium, a foundation that leads development and support of the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS), bringing their combined solution to Cloudian users. “Increasing data management efficiency is central to our customers’ objectives as they strive to manage more complex storage environments without increasing management workload,” said … continue reading
Ampere announces availability of eMAG for hyperscale cloud computing
Ampere, which is developing an Arm-based server platform for the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing, today announced availability of its first generation Armv8-A 64-bit processors for data centers. Already selected by Lenovo and several ODMs, the Ampere eMAG processors deliver excellent total cost of ownership (TCO) value, high-performance compute, high memory capacity, and rich … continue reading
OMG issues two RFPs for SysML v2
The Object Management Group is creating an opportunity for interested parties to contribute to the future of the SysML specification. It has issued two new RFPs for the SysML v2 standard: SysML v2 API and Services RFP and SysML v2 RFP. According to the company, the RFPs are the result of a 1 1/2-year effort … continue reading
KACE SMA 9.0 adds new features to meet the demands of growing endpoint environments
Quest Software has announced the newest version of KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA). KACE SMA 9.0 allows organizations to “proactively provision, manage, secure, and service their growing endpoint environment.” The platform offers a single console to manage network-attached devices, rather than multiple, different solutions, according to the company. It provides a single view through which … continue reading
NVIDIA launches data center inference platform for AI-powered services
NVIDIA announced two advances to its GPU technology this week at GTC Japan, both aimed at AI-powered voice, video, image and recommendation inference acceleration. The first is NVIDIA TensorRT Hyperscale Inference Platform, an inference software solution which runs on the second component of the announcement, the NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU, based on the NVIDIA Turing … continue reading
Ansible Tower 3.3 now available
Red Hat has released Ansible Tower 3.3, featuring a number of enhancements to improve automation in organizations. Ansible Tower is designed to scale IT automation as well a manage complex deployments and speed up productivity. Ansible Tower now includes push-button deployments for OpenShift users. In addition, as of this release, Ansible Tower is a supported … continue reading
Sysdig aims new funding at expansion and leadership
Open-source container security, monitoring and forensics provider Sysdig is dedicating its newly announced $68.5 million of funding to providing improved operations and security technologies for companies running containerized infrastructure and cloud-native apps. Backed, by Insight Venture Partners, the new round of series D funding brings Sysdig’s total funding to $121.5 million. “Enterprises are adopting cloud-native … continue reading
Chef Automate Incident Creation Receives Application Certification from ServiceNow
SEATTLE – September 11, 2018 – Chef, the leader in Continuous Automation, today announced it has received certification of its Chef Automate Incident Creation application with ServiceNow, available now in the ServiceNow Store. Certification by ServiceNow is only granted to apps available in the Store and signifies that the Chef Automate Incident Creation app has … continue reading
PagerDuty announces new digital operations management solutions
PagerDuty announced two new products and an expansion of its platform today at the PagerDuty Summit 2018 in San Francisco. The company announced PagerDuty Visibility and PagerDuty Analytics to help customers enhance their digital operations while leveraging PagerDuty’s extensive data set. PagerDuty Visibility provides a real-time view into operational health, while PagerDuty Analytics offers insights … continue reading
OpsRamp announces its Fall 2018 release with AIOps and multi-cloud monitoring features
OpsRamp is introducing a number of new IT features in its latest release of its AIOps SaaS Platform. The Fall 2018 release features a new Topology Explorer, improved Service Maps, and cloud database monitoring capabilities. According to the company, this release focuses on giving modern digital operations teams the ability to discover, manage and optimize … continue reading
Report: Cryptocurrency mining ramps up even as the value decreases
Even though the value of cryptocurrency has been decreasing, there was a significant increase in cryptocurrency mining in the first half of 2018, according to Trend Micro’s “Unseen Threats, Imminent Losses” report. The amount of cryptocurrency mining activity detected in the first half of 2018 was more than double that of the second half of … continue reading
