ITOps Times news digest: Dell’s new communications infrastructure solutions; Styra’s new Declarative Authorization Service; Liquidware’s ProfileUnity now supports Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022
Dell Technologies has announced new solutions for communications providers that will help them with their transformation to cloud-native networks. Dell Telecom Multi-Cloud Foundation is a new network infrastructure solution for building and deploying cloud-native networks at lower cost. The company is also adding new Bare Metal Orchestrator Modules that can be used to manage the … continue reading
Snyk has acquired Fugue, entering into the cloud security market
The developer security company Snyk recently announced its acquisition of Fugue, a cloud security and compliance company that aims to assist global teams in protecting their cloud environments and help them prioritize innovation. With this, Snyk makes its entrance into the cloud security market, a rapidly growing segment of cybersecurity. Fugue was founded on the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: ValidKube
ValidKube combines open-source tools to help ensure Kubernetes YAML best practices, hygiene and security. The tool can verify your Kubernetes configuration files through kubeval, remove clutter from your Kubernetes manifests through kubectl-neat, and can scan YAML code for security vulnerabilities with trivy. RELATED CONTENT: Abstracting complexity from Kubernetes breaks down barrier to entry Kubeval uses … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Orca Systems’ SoC solution for IoT; Lenovo partners with Blue Yonder; Celebrating 115% year-over-year growth in the Argo project
Semiconductor company Orca Systems has announced a wireless system-on-chip (SoC) solution for satellite IoT. It was designed for IoT company Totum. The SoC, ORC3990, is a cost-effective device that includes Orca Systems’ third-gen Live Wireless RF and digital radio subsystem, a low noise amplifier, digital power amplifier, a Totum satellite modem, power management unit subsystem, … continue reading
New Relic announces a new infrastructure monitoring solution
New Relic announced the general availability of a new infrastructure monitoring solution that helps DevOps, SRE and ITOps teams isolate offending infrastructure components and view all related telemetry — including logs, events, and alerts — in context. The new solution aims to tackle the three key issues that surround infrastructure: the complexity of infrastructure, handling … continue reading
How edge computing changes the way we process data
Way back in 1962, Marshall McLuhan, a leading communication theorist, said that the new electronic independence that was being experienced by millions of people across the globe would lead to what he called the creation of a global village. Fast forward 60 years and there is no argument that McLuhan was ahead of his time. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Amazon EFS performance improvements; Nutanix simplifies portfolio; and Bugcrowd Security Knowledge Platform updates
Amazon has announced updates to its Elastic File System (EFS) service, improving latency. Previously latency was in the low single-digit milliseconds, and new updates have brought it to around 600 microseconds for the majority of operations. These latency improvements can be experienced on existing or new EFS General Purpose file systems. Nutanix simplifies its product … continue reading
Abstracting complexity from Kubernetes breaks down barrier to entry
Kubernetes is a massive project in the cloud-native space, having grown to 52,000 contributors since its inception, as of a 2020 Cloud Native Computing Foundation report. While interest in Kubernetes continues to grow, one main barrier to its adoption is its complexity. In that same study, complexity was tied with culture changes at 41% as … continue reading
Report: Kubernetes is “crossing the chasm” into mainstream adoption
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has deemed 2021 as the year Kubernetes “crossed the chasm” into mainstream adoption. This is based on insights from its 2021 Annual Survey, such as the finding that 96% of organizations are using or evaluating Kubernetes. Kubernetes has seen particularly high growth over the past year, and now has … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kuma
Kuma is an open-source control plane for service mesh that is built on top of Envoy, which is an open-source service proxy. It features an out-of-the-box L4 and L7 policy architecture, allowing users to quickly set it up and enable zero trust security, observability, discovery, routing, and traffic reliability. Other features include multi-zone deployment for … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Palo Alto Networks’ new firewalls; Dynatrace’s updated security features; Tigera integrates zero trust into Calico Cloud
Security company Palo Alto Networks has announced new firewalls powered by machine learning technology. The new models, PA-3400 and PA-5400 Series provide three times improved security over previous models offered by the company, according to Palo Alto Networks. When compared to the previous models, the PA-5400 has seven times more content inspection per core, with … continue reading
Why hyperautomation should be at the top of your priority list for 2022
It’s safe to say that 2021 was an exhausting year for organizations and their employees. We’re coming up on two full years of the pandemic, which has highlighted the need for agile, cloud-based, and employee-centric business processes that enable organizations to rapidly respond to changing market conditions and customer demands. Enter hyperautomation, an augmented approach … continue reading
Fastly adds edge deployment option for its WAF offering
Edge network provider Fastly has announced the availability of an edge deployment option for its Next-Gen WAF solution, which is powered by Signal Sciences, the security company that Fastly acquired in October 2020. According to Fastly, this firewall provides protection for applications and APIs no matter where they are located. It can be deployed across … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: InterVision Ransomware Protection as a Service; Wipro and Intel collaboration, and new Aryaka leadership
InterVision has announced its new Ransomware Protection as a Service (RPaaS) solution, which includes access to a team of security experts, strategy for recovery after an attack, and a dedicated virtual CISO. “Ransomware continues to threaten the IT landscape, requiring companies to evolve from traditional, disconnected cybersecurity tools to a comprehensive managed platform,” says John … continue reading
