Honeycomb for Kubernetes offers new observability features

Honeycomb launched “Honeycomb for Kubernetes” to help engineers using Kubernetes identify and solve application issues by helping them understand the relationships between production code and the infrastructure layer.  The move is prompted by the CNCF’s 2022 Annual Survey, which shows the growing adoption of Kubernetes but highlights a gap in correlating application and infrastructure data, … continue reading

Solo.io’s Gloo Mesh Core offers ability to use service mesh without the complexity

The cloud-native networking company Solo.io is introducing a new product called Gloo Mesh Core that was created to increase service mesh adoption by alleviating some of the complexities of working with the technology.  “Service mesh does have a bit of a reputation for complexity,” Tom Callway, vice president of marketing for Solo.io, told ITOps Times. … continue reading

Atlassian adds virtual agents, AI to Jira Service Management

Virtual agent and expanded AI capabilities for IT service management highlight the updates in today’s release of Atlassian’s Jira Service Management platform. The new capabilities are designed to improve support to meet the speed at which IT works today. According to Edwin Wong, head of IT solutions at Atlassian, “The service management market is ripe … continue reading

Kyndryl launches experience management as a service offering

Kyndryl has introduced Kyndryl Experience Management as a Service. This offering provides a comprehensive digital workplace solution to assist customers in planning, implementing, and achieving tangible business results from their technology services.  It combines design collaboration from Kyndryl Vital, expertise from Kyndryl Consult, and AIOps and automation from Kyndryl Bridge to offer a seamless approach … continue reading

IBM releases watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed

IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed simplifies Ansible Playbook creation with AI-generated content recommendations. It’s designed to enhance IT automation by enabling IT users to create requests through plain English text prompts, from which it generates syntax-correct and contextually relevant content that can be used by the system.  In a pilot program, … continue reading

Kubernetes is killing the cloud

Let’s cut right to the chase: While Kubernetes is great for quickly deploying containers at cloud-scale, I think most people who use Kubernetes are missing out on the real value of the cloud, which is offloading responsibilities on parts of your application to managed cloud services. Kubernetes users quickly become “containerized” and have a hard … continue reading

Why Nokia Bell Labs created UNEXT to transform networking and communications

Earlier this month, Nokia Bell Labs announced an evolution of UNIX that promises to transform networking. Unified Networking Experience, or UNEXT, aims to reduce the complexity that communications systems have today.  “The situation that we have in networking basically is today we have seen the network becoming more and more complex, because with the advent … continue reading

ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Katran

Katran is an open-source layer 4 network load balancer (L4LB) developed by Meta. L4LBs are load balancers that operate on packets, not application level requests, Meta explained.  According to Meta, typically, L4LBs are important in managing latency and scaling the number of backend servers in an environment.  The company says that the key benefits of … continue reading

AWS launches separate cloud for EU customers to help with data sovereignty

AWS is launching a new solution aimed at companies operating in the European Union (EU). The new AWS European Sovereign Cloud is separated from the existing AWS Regions in the area and includes more options for deployment. The company launched this new cloud in an effort to help companies meet “data residency, operational autonomy, and … continue reading

Drowning in Cloud Native Infrastructure Data

I’m not sure I felt it at the time, but before I had kids I had life figured out. I could do what I wanted, when I wanted and I could generally stay on top of life. Finances were easy (comparatively), and my schedule was my own to determine once I’d finished work. Checking in … continue reading

Lacework updates cloud security platform with new integrations, more options

The cloud security company Lacework has announced updates that aim to provide customers with more choices when it comes to securing multicloud environments. The company now offers support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), giving customers another option to use with its cloud security posture management solution. This is in addition to previous support for AWS, … continue reading

Microsoft Security Copilot enters Early Access

Users wanting to try out Microsoft Security Copilot now have the chance to do so through the company’s Early Access Program.  Microsoft Security Copilot was first announced in March 2023 and, according to Microsoft, customers using it in preview have saved up to 40% of time on core security operations tasks like writing complex queries … continue reading

ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: k3s

K3s is a certified lightweight Kubernetes distribution specifically tailored for IoT and Edge computing environments. It is optimized for unattended, resource-constrained, and remote locations or within IoT appliances. K3s is packaged as a compact binary of less than 70MB, streamlining the installation, operation, and automatic updates of a production Kubernetes cluster. This distribution supports both … continue reading

Druva launches new conversational AI, Dru

The data backup company Druva is hoping to provide customers with a more seamless way to engage with their backups with the introduction of its generative AI interface, Dru.  The new conversational AI capabilities will enable customers to reduce protection risks, gain insights into their protection environment, and navigate their solution in a customized interface.  … continue reading

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