ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Uyuni
Uyuni is an open-source configuration and infrastructure management tool designed specifically for software-defined infrastructure. It can be used on any Linux server connected to a network, including IoT edge devices or a Kubernete environment. Uyuni supports management for SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Amazon Linux, and AlmaLinux … continue reading
IBM announces new single frame and rack mount options for z16 and LinuxONE 4
IBM announced new single-frame and rack-mount options for its z16 and LinuxONE 4 mainframe computers launched last year. This will enable customers to better optimize their data centers for flexibility, sustainability, and security. By consolidating Linux workloads onto an IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 rather than running them on x86 servers under comparable conditions and in … continue reading
Honeycomb announces $50 million in Series D funding
Observability company Honeycomb today announced that it has raised $50 million in a Series D funding round led by headline with participation from other existing investors, Insight Partners, and Scale Venture Partners. This brings the total capital raised by Honeycomb to$150 million, including customer angel investments from Dominik Richter, CEO of HelloFresh, and Guillermo Rauch, … continue reading
Rocket Content Automation accelerates IT modernization without introducing added risks
Enterprise software company Rocket Software today launched Rocket Content Automation. This release is geared at enabling important operational connections between systems and data sources without bringing in additional risks. With this release, businesses and IT organizations are enabled to collaborate to create improved experiences using automation capabilities spanning the Rocket Content Services portfolio. “Automation is … continue reading
Rookout adds fourth pillar of observability with Smart Snapshots
Observability was built on the foundation of three pillars: logs, metrics, and traces; Now, the company Rookout wants to add a fourth: snapshots. “We’ve been hearing for years about the three pillars of observability,” said Liran Haimovitch, CTO and co-founder of Rookout. “Snapshots are the next level for those moments when something goes very wrong … continue reading
Amazon VPC Lattice aims to improve how we manage distributed applications
Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon VPC Lattice, a fully managed networking solution that simplifies the connectivity, security, and monitoring between microservices in a distributed application. The solution enables users to define their application’s network topology in terms of logical groups of services and provides automated network configuration, security policy enforcement, and traffic routing. … continue reading
Mirantis Container Cloud updates make operations easier both on-premise and in the cloud
Open-source cloud computing software and services company Mirantis today announced Mirantis Container Cloud 2.23 (MCC 2.23) with new features to simplify operations, such as the ability to monitor application performance with a Grafana dashboard. The latest release of MCC also offers users the ability to make updates to Kubernetes clusters with a one-click “upgrade” button … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Keycloak
With Keycloak, users can add authentication to applications and secure devices with minimum effort. The project provides user federation, strong authentication, user management, fine-grained authorization, and more. Keycloak provides single-sign out, which means users only have to log out once to be logged out of all applications that use Keycloak. By configuring the Identity Provider … continue reading
Microsoft Security Copilot brings GPT-4 capabilities to security systems
Microsoft is adding to the list of offerings it has that incorporate AI to improve how businesses run. Microsoft Security Copilot combines the capabilities of GPT-4 with Microsoft’s security capabilities to provide an end-to-end defense system. The company hopes that this new solution will enable security to be a more human endeavor as security professionals … continue reading
Promote data-driven collaboration using a business model canvas
Digital transformation continues to be the focus for organizations seeking to improve efficiencies and increase profits in 2023. Digitizing business processes to power automation has the potential to revolutionize operations. Available data also has more value than ever, thanks to new digital processes. IDC reports that $1.8 trillion will be spent on digital transformation in … continue reading
Report: Millions in lost revenue caused by Internet disruptions
A new Catchpoint survey in collaboration with Forrester Consulting found that nearly 40% of all respondents suffer customer-impacting disruptions, which cost up to $1 million per month. For most of those companies – mostly consumer brands and retailers with a significant volume of online transactions and a company size of over 1,000 employees – even … continue reading
Google Cloud VMs can now be suspended
Google Cloud launched a new generally available feature called “VM suspend/resume,” which enables users to save money by temporarily suspending virtual machines (VMs) on Google Compute Engine when they are not in use, and then resuming them when needed. In the suspended state, users no longer have to pay for cores or RAM and instead … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Salt
Salt is an event-driven automation tool and framework built in Python to deploy, configure, and manage complex IT systems. This open-source project can be used to automate common infrastructure administration tasks and be sure that all parts of the users infrastructure are operating correctly. Salt can also be used to manage operating system deployment and … continue reading
Flexera One FinOps helps to improve cost of enterprise collaboration
Flexera, a company that works to help organizations gain business value from their technology investments, today released Flexera One FinOps to strengthen an enterprise’s FinOps and cloud central teams. This release is intended to enhance the combination of IT asset management and FinOps in order to improve the way enterprises visualize and administer cloud usage … continue reading
