ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Power Grid Model
Power Grid Model is a high-performance Python/C++ library for steady-state distribution of power system analysis that offers optimized algorithms for the characteristics of the distribution grid. The project also offers full support of three-phase asymmetric calculation and efficient C++ implementation with native parallel computing support. This technology can be used for Monte-Carlo low voltage grid … continue reading
NTT and Cisco release IoT as-a-Service solution to improve operational efficiencies
IT and infrastructure company NTT announced a collaboration with technology company Cisco in order to develop and deploy joint solutions geared at improving operational efficiencies and enhancing sustainability goals. According to the companies, the combination of NTT’s Edge-as-a-Service portfolio and Cisco’s IoT features offers users real-time data insights, improved security, better decision making, and decreased … continue reading
New Relic releases new infrastructure monitoring solution with competitive pricing model
The observability platform New Relic has just launched a new solution for infrastructure monitoring. Customers will be able to view key metrics like CPU and memory for hosts, containers, and virtual machines. They can then use this information to identify which applications have under-provisioned resources and make adjustments accordingly. They will be shown an at-a-glance … continue reading
Intel and SAP partnership aims to deliver more powerful SAP software landscapes to cloud
Intel and SAP SE have created a strategic partnership in order to give customers access to more effective and eco-friendly SAP software. This collaboration will help customers gain scalability, flexibility, and the capacity to combine existing SAP software. Through this partnership, Intel is focusing on providing efficient and secure solutions for SAP to run on … continue reading
Barracuda SecureEdge works to make remote work easier to secure
Barracuda, the cloud-first security company, today unveiled its new SASE solution intended to simplify the process of making hybrid and remote work secure, Barracuda SecureEdge. This solution also integrates Barracuda’s Secure SD-WAN, Firewall-as-a-Service, Zero Trust Network Access, and Secure Web Gateway capabilities. According to the company, Barracuda SecureEdge secures users, sites and IoT devices; is … continue reading
Catchpoint unveils lots of new features to make Internet performance monitoring better
Catchpoint has announced a number of new enhancements to its Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform. Internet Weather shows the status of Internet services around the world, so that teams can be aware of outages in their third-party dependencies. It includes popular CDN, DNS, IaaS/PaaS, ISP, and SaaS providers. Traceroute Enhancement is an enhancement to Network … continue reading
Virtana announces CloudMonitor to deliver centralized visibility for multi-cloud
Virtana announced CloudMonitor to reduce the complexity of monitoring and managing hybrid IT across on-premises, colocation, and public cloud workloads. Virtana CloudMonitor offers businesses a comprehensive, SaaS-based view of their hybrid infrastructure, allowing them to maximize the usage of their multi-vendor computing, networking, storage, cloud, virtual machines, containers, databases, and more in hybrid and multi-cloud … continue reading
The App-Aware NOC: The imperatives, and how to make it happen
Fire drills and ensuing all-hands-on-deck calls are nothing new for IT operations teams. I can remember working on a site reliability engineering (SRE) team for a large, global enterprise in the shipping industry back in the late 1990s. Early on in my tenure there, an issue occurred that affected the public facing site. Initially, we … continue reading
RKVST’s new Instaproof solution identifies the integrity of data for files and AI models
Instaproof is a new solution that can verify data authenticity, provenance, and integrity for all files and AI models. Users can verify the file they are working with without needing an RKVST account by dragging it onto Instaproof. If the file has been registered with RKVST, they can use the displayed provenance information to determine … continue reading
Cloudflare announces zero-trust solution for companies experimenting with AI
Cloudflare One for AI was released as a collection of features that help teams build with the latest AI services while maintaining a zero-trust security posture. “Cloudflare One’s goal is to allow you to safely use the tools you need, wherever they live, without compromising performance. These features will feel familiar to any existing use … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Kuberhealthy
Kuberhealthy is a Kubernetes operator for running synthetic checks as pods and works best with Prometheus. The project is now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and requires Kubernetes 1.16 or above. Users can write their own tests in any language and Kuberhealthy will run them to automatically create metrics for Prometheus. Kuberhealthy … continue reading
Dell updates storage portfolio to offer improved cyber resiliency, energy efficiency, and automation
Dell Technologies today announced updates that have been made to its storage portfolio in order to increase cyber resiliency, energy efficiency, and automation. These updates are intended to assist users along their multicloud journeys. With this update, PowerStore, Dell’s all-flash data storage array, is increasing its security to help organizations adopt a Zero Trust model. … continue reading
Latest releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 and 8.8 drive greater Linux automation across hybrid cloud
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 and the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 in the near future. The releases are aimed at furthering Red Hat’s efforts to simplify and streamline complex Linux platform tasks across the hybrid cloud and to help IT teams better overcome staffing and … continue reading
Cloudflare partners with Kyndryl to deliver managed network transformation services
The security, performance, and reliability company Cloudflare today announced that it is entering into a partnership with Kyndryl, an IT infrastructure services provider spun off from IBM. This partnership is geared at helping enterprises to modernize and scale their corporate networks using managed WAN-as-a-Service and Cloudflare Zero Trust. The collaboration combines Kyndryl’s managed end-to-end networking … continue reading
