Low-hanging fruits to quickly reduce cloud costs in 2022
A new year is always a good time to check your expenses. One expense that keeps on climbing constantly in many organizations is related to the cloud expenses, expected to expand up to $1 trillion by 2024, according to IDC. While this can be a good thing, indicating the business is scaling and cloud resources … continue reading
ThreatMapper 1.2.0 released with new attack path visualizations
Observability company Deepfence launched new ThreatMapper features to provide DevSecOps professionals with new attack path visualizations, most exploitable vulnerabilities calculations, and AWS Fargate support. ThreatMapper finds hidden attack paths by continuously correlating vulnerabilities with network traffic, identifying much harder to find vulnerable services that are further downstream, behind proxies and exposed indirectly to potentially malicious … continue reading
Fleet raises $5 million in seed funding for device management platform
Fleet, which is a device management platform, has announced that it raised $5 million in seed funding, including support from Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and CEO of GitLab. Fleet is an open-source project designed to enable developers, security teams, and IT teams to track and secure devices like laptops and servers. SQL queries are used to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Yor
Yor is an open-source tool that is designed to provide automated tagging and tracing for infrastructure as code (IaC). It automatically tags IaC templates with attribution and ownership details, unique IDs that get carried across to cloud resources, and any other need-to-know information. According to the project’s website, Yor automates away manual and inconsistent tagging … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ServiceNow Center of Excellence for Accessibility; VMware NSX-T 3.2; Datto acquires Infocyte
ServiceNow has created a Center of Excellence for Accessibility. This center will collaborate with the company’s partners, customers, and internal employee groups to gather feedback on ServiceNow products. The company hopes this will enable it to prioritize accessibility compliance early in the design process. The company also appointed a new global head of accessibility, Eamon … continue reading
Report: The top challenges companies are facing as they undergo IT transformations
It’s obvious that over the past few years, IT teams have been hard at work prioritizing enabling remote or hybrid work. It is still the top priority for a majority of companies. This is according to a new survey from Pulse and cloud access company Citrix, in which 400 IT and security leaders across North … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ServiceNow Impact; SUSE open sources NeuVector; Pure Storage partner program updates
ServiceNow announced the release of its Impact solution, which provides recommendations and guidance to help companies realize the return on investment in technology solutions. In addition to recommendations, it also provides technical support and preventative tools, role-based training and certifications, and expert coaching. “You can only improve what you can measure. Leaders need a command … continue reading
Mirantis Secure Registry 3.0 can be used alongside any Kubernetes distribution
Mirantis has announced the release of Mirantis Secure Registry 3.0, which now can be used with any Kubernetes distribution. Previously, it could only be deployed by Mirantis Kubernetes Engine. The platform provides a secure software supply chain that companies can use to store, share, and manage images in a private container registry. With the latest … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: NordVPN’s speed test tool
NordVPN developed a new tool that helps users objectively measure and compare the speed of different VPN services. It allows users to add and compare different VPN services, and provides detailed reporting. “Connection speed is one of the most important factors that affect user experience when they use a VPN. People want to secure their … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: SentinelOne’s new integrations; VMware releases PowerCLI 12.5; Virtana raises $73 million
Security company SentinelOne has announced new integrations with Remediant, Blue Hexagon, Keysight, and Automox. These integrations are available through the company’s Singularity Marketplace. The Remediant integration can be used to enforce Zero Trust solutions from a single agent, Blue Hexagon enables detection of malware, Keysight enables simulations of threats, and the Automox integration provides vulnerability … continue reading
BMC releases updates for data visibility and mainframe DevOps adoption
BMC announced new capabilities and integrations across its BMC AMI (Automated Mainframe Intelligence) and BMC Compuware portfolios that will help users improve service quality and accelerate software delivery. The company is aiming to enhance service quality with better data. The BMC Helix Discovery solution now automatically maps and visualizes service dependencies across mainframe and distributed … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: SentinelOne and ServiceNow integration; Adaptive Shield joins Cloud Security Alliance; Keeper Security Secrets Manager
Security company SentinelOne has announced a new app through ServiceNow to improve incident response for companies. SentinelOne App for ServiceNow Security Incident Response (SIR) syncs threats from SentinelOne into the ServiceNow Incident Response Module, where responders can view relevant incident details around a threat, such as incident status and threat notes. Adaptive Shield joins Cloud … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Shotover
Shotover Proxy is an open source, high performance L7 data-layer proxy for controlling, managing and modifying the flow of database requests in transit. It can be used to solve many different operational and interoperability challenges for teams where polyglot persistence (many different databases) is common. Shotover can be deployed in many different ways including as … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Moogsoft partners with Alesia Labs; Ivanti Neurons for IIoT; ReadyWorks Series A
AIOps company Moogsoft has announced a new partnership with observability company Alesia Labs. Moogsoft will improve Alesia Labs’ observability portfolio with new AIOps capabilities, such as noise reduction, anomaly detection, and insight enrichment. “Moogsoft is excited to work with the Alesia Lab team to deliver new capabilities to the company’s existing client base,” said Mike … continue reading
