Pairing DevOps with ITSM
Bringing IT service management (ITSM) together with DevOps and Agile development approaches is a smart way to innovate. While Agile can be vital to instituting a nimbler and more flexible ITSM function or operational management style, DevOps helps you work toward your goals in the timeliest manner across the entire ecosystem. ITSM, when stoic and … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cilium Service Mesh
Isovalent, the company that builds open-source cloud-native networking software that solves networking, security, and observability for modern infrastructure, announced the availability of Cilium Service Mesh. Users will be able to run the service mesh completely without sidecars while supporting various control plane options. Cilium Service Mesh complements the existing Istio integration based on sidecars that … continue reading
Dynatrace combines its log analytics and user experience analytics capabilities
Dynatrace, the software intelligence company, announced that it has unified its AI-powered log analytics with its digital experience monitoring (DEM) capabilities, enhancing its analytics capabilities for modern multi cloud environments. The goal of this combination is to enable development teams to automatically gain deeper insights into specific user journeys by connecting logs to the user … continue reading
Report: over 50% of organizations prioritize security over user experience
Broadcom Software, provider of wireless LAN infrastructure solutions, today released the results of its survey on avoiding tradeoffs between security and user experience. The findings of the survey revealed that over half of organizations value security above the experience of end-users, often at the expense of productivity and customer satisfaction. The struggle that organizations face … continue reading
Report: IT workers are spending majority of their time on tasks that don’t contribute to key business outcomes
Sixty-eight percent of IT teams’ time is spent working on tasks that do not actually contribute to key business outcomes. This is according to Digital Enterprise Journal’s latest report, “24 Key Areas Shaping IT Performance Markets in 2022.” The report contains responses from over 3,300 companies. The top performing 20% of survey respondents say their … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Paladin Cloud
Paladin Cloud is a new open-source security platform aimed at helping teams find the gaps in their cloud security. According to the company behind the project, 95% of cloud services are misconfigured, and those misconfigurations have the potential to lead to a breach. Paladin Cloud’s Policy Management Plane offers visibility into cloud assets through a … continue reading
Canonical releases Ubuntu image for Google Cloud’s Tau T2A VMs
Google Cloud and Canonical, the company that releases Ubuntu, have announced that they have released a new Ubuntu image to be used for the preview of Google Cloud’s Tau T2A virtual machines (VMs). Tau T2A is Google Cloud’s VM for running on Arm architectures. “With the launch of T2A VMs on Google Cloud and corresponding … continue reading
Shoreline.io announces open source solutions library to deliver self-healing infrastructure
The Incident Automation company Shoreline.io announced a collection of Op Packs that make it easier to diagnose and repair common infrastructure incidents in production cloud environments called the Shoreline open source solutions library. The more than 35 free Op Packs cover issues such as JVM memory leaks, filling disks, rogue processes, and stuck Kubernetes pods. … continue reading
Everbridge launches Service Intelligence model for managing IT disruptions
IT event management company Everbridge has announced the addition of a new correlation and analytics module to its Digital Operations platform. The new module, Service Intelligence, will enable IT teams to minimize the impact of disruptions. It provides integrations with popular AIOps and observability tools like Dynatrace, Moogsoft, BigPanda, and DataDog. It also helps to … continue reading
AWS Cloud WAN launches to help companies build WANs
AWS has just announced the availability of AWS Cloud WAN, which is a new managed service aimed at helping customers build and operate wide area networks (WAN). These networks can be used to connect data centers, branch offices, or any location where a company has resources they want to connect. Typically, to connect these, network … continue reading
Aqua Security and D2iQ partner on securing cloud-native apps
D2iQ announced a partnership with Aqua Security that will enable organizations to create seamless DevSecOps experiences that accelerate the deployment of secure smart cloud-native applications. With the partnership, organizations can run Aqua’s Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) on the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) and enhance the security of containerized workloads. Aqua on DKP can … continue reading
CompTIA launches new Linux+ certification exam
The IT certification company CompTIA announced the worldwide release of the CompTIA Linux+ certification exam, which covers the latest foundational skills demanded by hiring managers. The new exam validates technology professionals’ skills to secure the enterprise, power the cloud, and keep tech systems running. “As organizations opt for Linux-based solutions to automate and orchestrate critical … continue reading
Report: 75% of organizations say conducting regular access reviews strengthens their cybersecurity posture
A majority of companies agree on the importance of conducting regular reviews of who has access to their systems, but many of these companies are still doing these reviews manually. The cybersecurity vendor, Netwrix, has released the results of its recent survey that looked at 590 IT professionals’ treatment of user access permissions. The report … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Antrea
Antrea is an open source Kubernetes project that provides networking and security capabilities for pod workloads. Key capabilities include the ability to create overlay networks, enforce network policies, and improve network performance. It utilizes both the Container Network Interface (CNI) and Kubernetes NetworkPolicy, and extends the capabilities of networks built on top of Open vSwitch. … continue reading
