Palo Alto Networks to acquire browser start-up Talon Cyber Security
Palo Alto Networks has confirmed its intent to acquire Talon Cyber Security, known for its Enterprise Browser technology. According to Palo Alto Networks, the acquisition of Talon’s Enterprise Browser will enhance Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) solution, which converges network security, SD-WAN, and autonomous digital experience management in a single service. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tetragon
Tetragon is a security tool for Kubernetes that uses eBPF to apply policies and filters, reducing observation overhead, enabling process tracking, and enforcing policies in real-time. Developed by the creators of Cilium and eBPF, Tetragon offers real-time security observability and enforcement using eBPF. It can detect and respond to important security events, including process execution, … continue reading
Nokia Bell Labs’ AI solution uses text prompts to manage networks
Nokia has introduced the “Natural-Language Networking” AI solution that uses natural language processing and AI/ML models to interpret text or speech requests and then automatically allocate the correct network resources. These networks will understand the intentions of users and have the intelligence to act upon them autonomously, according to Nokia in a post. “Operators won’t … continue reading
Grafana launches new infrastructure and cost-monitoring capabilities
Grafana Labs has introduced new capabilities for its observability platform Grafana Cloud to help Kubernetes platform teams lower cloud costs and improve unified monitoring for their cloud-native infrastructure. “Kubernetes leveled up platform engineering and redefined how global distributed teams could access shared infrastructure – but teams have to use multiple different platforms to cover the … continue reading
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
