Radware announces new DDoS attack mitigation platform
The security company Radware, has announced the release of two new solutions: DefensePro X, a new DDoS attack mitigation platform, and Cyber Controller, a new management, security operations, and orchestration system. According to Radware, DDoS attacks grew by over 200% in 2022 and the number of blocked events per customer has almost doubled each quarter. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Feilong
Feilong is an open-source z/VM cloud connector project under the Open Mainframe Project that aims to accelerate z/VM adoption. The client library is written in Python that interacts with z/VM SMAPI (System management API) of IBM Z or LinuxONE machines. According to the creators, the goal in creating the package was to make the z/VM … continue reading
Styra Load offers better method for authorization
Styra Load is a new Open Policy Agent (OPA)-based decision engine for authorizing cloud native applications that contain large data sets. According to Styra, a challenge many companies face is that data-heavy authorization workloads can lead to high operations costs. But Styra Load uses 10x less memory and has 40% more CPU throughput when compared … continue reading
Dynatrace announces platform extensions and new releases
Software intelligence company Dynatrace today announced several new releases at its annual cloud observability conference. These include an extension of its platform’s Grail data lakehouse, the launch of AutomationEngine, and the launch of AppEngine. Grail data lakehouse has been expanded to additional data types with graph-based multicloud technology and dependencies in order to offer users … continue reading
Quali updates its infrastructure automation platform with risk reduction features
Quali has updated its infrastructure automation platform Torque with new features intended to help organizations reduce risk and increase value. Torque now automatically does a security scan and health check before allowing infrastructure to be deployed. According to Quali this cuts down on potential issues from misconfigurations. Integration with Open Policy Agent (OPA) allows policies … continue reading
Akamai releases new distributed edge and cloud platform
Akamai’s new Connected Cloud is a distributed edge and cloud platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Connected Cloud utilizes the same infrastructure that powers its edge network that includes 11 other cloud computing sites. It places compute, storage, database, and other services closer to major populations, industries, and IT centers to create a … continue reading
Canonical unveils support for real-time compute in Ubuntu
Canonical today unveiled support for real-time compute in Ubuntu in the release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. According to the company, real-time Ubuntu provides deterministic responses to external events, which cuts down on response times. This makes it ideal for use cases where there are low-latency requirements, like automotive, telecommunications, and aerospace and defense. “The real-time … continue reading
Enterprise architecture is coming out of its “winter”
Through the years, interest in enterprise architecture has felt like somewhat of a roller coaster, with organizations recognizing its importance one minute and then deciding they don’t need it the next. In a recent episode of ITOps Times’ podcast “Get With IT,” Paul Homan, a distinguished engineer at IBM and the CTO for the industrial … continue reading
Platform Engineering has a Problem – It’s Infrastructure-as-Code
In the context of cloud operations, the last decade was ruled by DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code. But what is true DevOps? Is it developers running their own operations? Is it a different job role, where operators learn development skills to automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform? Now that DevOps is widely understood in … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: werf
Werf is a CNCF Sandbox cross-platform CLI tool that makes it easy to apply best-practice full-cycle CI/CD to Kubernetes. This tool integrates into your CI system, utilizing popular and dependable technologies like Git, Dockerfile, Helm, and Buildah. It was initially created in Kubernetes Certified Service Provider Flant to serve as a tool to automate the … continue reading
CNCF Annual Survey reveals containers have become standard practice
44% of organizations stated that they are already using containers for almost all of their applications and business segments while another 35% reported that containers are used for at least a few production applications. This is according to the CNCF Annual Survey 2022, conducted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Linux Research Foundation. … continue reading
Civo launches Kubeflow as a Service
Cloud provider Civo launched a Kubeflow as a Service offering to reduce the time and resources it takes for developers to gain insights from ML algorithms. Only 53% of AI projects make it from prototype to production, according to Gartner research, and this is likely due to the vast and complex infrastructure required to support … continue reading
Virtualization is not a legacy technology, but fits into modern systems
DevOps, the cloud, microservices and Kubernetes have changed the way applications are engineered, deployed and managed. Yet about three-quarters of all applications are still running in an old style – on virtual machines. ITOps Times recently had a chance to speak with Sachin Mullick, senior manager for OpenShift virtualization at Red Hat, about how cloud … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Hermes
Hermes is HashiCorps’ newly open-sourced document management system built to streamline writing and document processes. The company originally created the project in June 2022 to help its team members author, review, approve, discover, and deprecate documents. For its backend, Hermes utilizes Golang and for its front end, Ember.js. Storage is provided by a PostgreSQL database … continue reading
