ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud acquires Siemplify; 1NCE and AWS partnership; and Ontic updates Real-Time Threat Detection
Google Cloud has acquired Siemplify, which is a provider of security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR). According to Google Cloud, this acquisition will enable it to further its vision of offering a modern threat management stack that will empower customers to go beyond security event and information management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR) … continue reading
Migration Mission Possible: Moving Critical Workloads to the Cloud
Cloud spending is on track to surpass $1 trillion by 2024, due partly to pandemic-driven changes to business operations, an event that dramatically accelerated cloud adoption timelines across industries. High-value motivators for consideration when companies move technology operations to a public cloud include critical revenue-generating core line of business applications, back office, support, dev/test, and … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Submariner
Submariner is a tool for networking between Pods and Services in Kubernetes clusters. According to the project’s website, as teams continue to adopt Kubernetes, they are discovering that they need to deploy and manage multiple clusters in order to enable capabilities like geo-redundancy, scale, and fault isolation. Submariner was created so that companies could have … continue reading
ITOps predictions for 2022
Here are just a few predictions that experts across the industry have for 2022: Gabriel Aguiar Noury, Robotics Product Manager at Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu Robotics industry: “Despite the market boost that the pandemic provided to the robotics industry, 2021 showed us that isolated projects based on proprietary technology carry bigger market risks than … continue reading
Overcoming the chip shortage: Why optimal storage for EDA workloads is key
Powering everyday devices — from cars to smartphones — the semiconductor chip demand was high before the pandemic. When it comes to producing these vital pieces of technology, there are two critical components: having a chip design that provides advanced levels of functionality and sustained performance to power a range of devices, and a quick … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Harvester
Harvester, created by SUSE, is an open source modern hyperconverged infrastructure solution that is built on a variety of cloud native solutions, such as Kubernetes, Longhorn and Kubevirt. This week, it was made production-ready and generally available for customers and the open-source community. Harvester’s latest integration with SUSE Rancher now allows IT operators to access, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: NS1’s new outage mitigation solution; Samsung PM1743; OpenText acquires Zix
NS1 has announced a new solution that it hopes will help companies mitigate the effects of internet outages. It combines the company’s DNS solutions, Filter Chain technology for rerouting traffic, and automation capabilities. “Internet infrastructure can be unpredictable, especially in the wake of a global pandemic that continues to drive unprecedented traffic and network congestion,” … continue reading
The top 10 stories on ITOps Times in 2021
It’s not always easy to read every new article on trends in IT throughout the year. Our holiday gift to you is this list of our top 10 trending stories of the year, in case there were any you missed out on. Happy reading! Report: IT jobs expected to get harder in hybrid work model … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Datto launches Log4j mitigation tool; Harvester 1.0.0 released; ServiceMax announces Spark 360
In an effort to help managed service providers (MSPs) mitigate the Log4j vulnerability, Datto has released a free tool. The Endpoint Assessment Tool can enumerate vulnerable systems, detect intrusion attempts, and protect Windows systems against attacks. “During this critical time, I am pleased to see there has been some great information sharing and that we … continue reading
Five ways IT can combat the global chip shortage
If you’re an IT administrator, or running a service desk, no doubt you’ve tired of fielding requests for new laptops or other devices and having to remind your colleagues there is a global chip shortage that has basically thrown the electronic goods supply chain completely out of whack. With shortages projected to continue through at … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: PowerfulSeal
PowerfulSeal is a testing tool for Kubernetes clusters built by Bloomberg and inspired by Netflix’s Chaos Monkey. The tool, which was first presented at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017, is aimed specifically at Kubernetes, and includes the ability to describe the objects running in each container so that it knows precisely which things it … continue reading
Self-service IT helps eliminate many operations bottlenecks
Running the IT operations of a company is no easy job. Not only do operations teams have to maintain all of the company’s systems, they also have to ensure positive user experiences, resolve incidents quickly, and help keep developers productive. Luckily, there are ways to ease the burden on IT teams. In a webinar on … continue reading
Report: 74% of companies not achieving true observability despite massive investments
If you need any more proof that you need observability in your systems, look no further than last week’s large AWS outage. It took down many large websites, and was a great reminder that you need to know what your systems are doing at all times in order to be able to properly respond when … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Second Log4j vulnerability detected; IBM and Samsung make new semiconductor breakthrough; Linux Foundation announces new IT course
A second vulnerability has been detected in Log4j that renders previous mitigations for versions 2.7.0 to 2.14.1 potentially useless, according to LunaSec. The security company explained that your systems may be vulnerable if you only enabled the “formatMsgNoLookups” flag or set “%m{nolookups} when setting attacker controlled data in ThreadContext. It recommends updating to at least … continue reading
