Dell and Red Hat expand partnership on simplifying containerized infrastructure
Dell and Red Hat have announced they are expanding their existing partnership that focuses on bringing customers solutions to simplify deployment and management of containerized infrastructure in multicloud environments. With this expansion comes new joint features, such as Dell APEX Containers for Red Hat OpenShift and Dell Validated Platform for Red Hat OpenShift. APEX Containers … continue reading
Zendesk launches new customer sentiment and intent functionality
The service-first CRM company Zendesk recently announced Intelligent Triage and Smart Assist, new AI solutions to enable businesses to triage customer support requests automatically as well as access important data at scale. According to the company, the democratization of these solutions allow organizations to see value faster by understanding intent and sentiment through account-specific, data-driven … continue reading
Sysdig announces new CSPM and guided remediation tool
Sysdig, the unified container and cloud security company, has unveiled ToDo, a cloud security posture management offering that aggregates security findings by root cause and prioritizes remindiation based on impact, and Remediation Guru, which offers guided remediation at the source. According to Sysdig, ToDo works to save time during investigations and Remediation Guru enables security … continue reading
StarlingX 7.0 released with scalability and stability improvements
The open-source edge computing and IoT cloud platform StarlingX released its latest version. StarlingX 7.0 focuses on improving scalability, security, stability, and flexibility. The solution combines Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and more to create a full-featured cloud software stack. StarlingX 7.0 increases the number of subclouds that the Distributed Cloud can manage to 1,000 All-in-One Simplex … continue reading
Harness launches new partner program to help companies move to the cloud
The software delivery company Harness has announced a new partner program to give companies access to trusted managed service providers (MSPs) who can help them manage cloud spend, consumption, and resources. According to Harness, while cloud adoption is a good idea for businesses, it can come with a host of challenges, such as complexity, high … continue reading
HTTP/3: Latest version of HTTP is an evolution for the mobile era
Earlier this summer, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published RFC 9114, otherwise known as HTTP/3. This is the latest evolution of HTTP, which is an application layer protocol that is the foundation for the Internet as we know it today. One important difference in HTTP/3 compared with previous iterations is that it runs on … continue reading
Google completes acquisition of Mandiant
Google announced that it completed the acquisition of Mandiant, a provider of dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. The addition of Mandiant’s threat intelligence to Google’s data processing, novel analytics approaches with AI and machine learning, and a focus on eliminating entire classes of threats aims to help enterprises stay protected at … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Istio Ambient Mesh
Cloud-native company Solo.io yesterday announced a new open-source project aimed at accelerating adoption of the service mesh Istio. The project, Istio Ambient Mesh, provides a new architecture for Istio that offers greater flexibility, security, and performance. “Istio is the future of service mesh, and Ambient Mesh brings a whole new level of flexibility for companies … continue reading
5 Ways to Prevent a Kubernetes Catastrophe
Kubernetes is a relatively new technology, and there is a limited pool of engineers capable of configuring and managing a deployment. A large percentage of Kubernetes deployments fail because organizations underestimate the complexity of Kubernetes and overestimate their ability to implement and manage a Kubernetes environment – a recent study showed that 100% of companies surveyed … continue reading
Gartner infrastructure conferences returning in person
“Empowering the Anywhere Business” is the theme for this year’s 2022 Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference, returning in-person for the first time since 2019. Businesses across the globe are challenged to bring value and innovation wherever their customers are, according to Gartner’s events team. Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) leaders have a critical role … continue reading
Bitwarden secures $100 million in funding
The password manager Bitwarden has announced $100 million in new funding from the equity firm PSG, with participation from existing investor Battery Ventures. It will use the money to accelerate product and company growth to meet the growing needs of its customers. According to Bitwarden, the switch to remote work and therefore the further mixing … continue reading
Is Your Data Bathtub About to Overflow?
Over the past seven years, we’ve seen Kubernetes become the de facto platform for building modern applications. With this shift, application architectures have become increasingly distributed, dynamic, and modular. As a byproduct, logging data has exploded – depending on the company, anywhere from one terabyte to multiple petabytes of data can be generated each day. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Clusterpedia
Clusterpedia is an encyclopedia of Kubernetes clusters that can help users synchronize, search for, and control multi-cluster resources. The inspiration behind its name is Wikipedia, according to the developers behind the project on GitHub. It is a CNCF sandbox project that includes support for complex searches, filters, sorting, paging, and more. Clusterpedia also offers support … continue reading
Pluralsight offering free access to popular cloud computing certification programs
The upskilling platform Pluralsight has announced a new free offering aimed at closing the cloud skills gap. According to the company’s State of Upskilling Report, 40% of tech leaders said that cloud computing was their top skill concern. There is currently a high demand for workers with these skills. Through the end of 2022, video … continue reading
