The tradeoffs of moving to the cloud can be alleviated with a hybrid approach
Cloud adoption is at an all-time high, but massive outages, such as last week’s AWS outage have highlighted that there are indeed some tradeoffs that occur when moving to the cloud, such as their applications being unavailable when their cloud provider experiences an outage. Even though systems are designed for reliability — especially at the … continue reading
Log4j vulnerability is “absolutely brutal”
A major vulnerability was discovered Thursday in the technology Log4j, which is a popular logging package in Java. According to Ashan Dabirsiaghi, co-founder and chief scientist at Contrast Security, Log4j is the most popular logging framework for Java. Essentially any Java application that logs data uses it, and it is used by millions of applications. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Teleport 8; Dazz raises $60 million; IBM SevOne NPM
Teleport has announced the latest version of its Access Plane solution, Teleport 8. Teleport 8 enables passwordless access to Windows desktop and Windows Server. Customers can also now use it to implement zero-trust connectivity to their infrastructure. According to the company, Teleport 8 allows a company’s open network footprint to be reduced down to a … continue reading
Transposit announces advanced ticketing capabilities to modernize ITSM
Connected workflow company Transposit announced Activities, which is a new feature that applies automation to ITSM processes. It provides a single source of truth across issues, incidents, and requests. Every action taken by both human and machine throughout any activity within the Transposit Timeline is captured through auto-tickets. Data and actionability are brought neatly together to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Hypervisor Project
The Linux Foundation announced that it will host the Cloud Hypervisor project, which delivers a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) for modern Cloud workloads. The project is supported by Alibaba, ARM, ByteDance, Intel and Microsoft. The project is written in Rust and focuses on security features such as CPU, memory and device hot plug; support for … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat Ansible Automation on Microsoft Azure; Cloudflare’s new partnerships; and HCL Technologies and KloudGin partner up
Red Hat announced that its Ansible Automation Platform is now available on Microsoft Azure. Red Hat believes this addition will give customers greater return on investment for automation by being able to leverage Azure services, such as compute, network, and storage. “By integrating open source automation technologies, such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.23 introduces general availability of IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack networking
The latest version of Kubernetes is now available. Kubernetes 1.23 includes 47 enhancements, 11 of which are stable, 17 of which are in beta, and 19 of which are in alpha. In addition, the release team deprecated a feature in this release. The deprecated feature is FlexVolume, which was used to write volumes into Kubernetes. … continue reading
Broadcom to acquire AppNeta to bolster network performance monitoring
Broadcom announced its intent to acquire the privately held company AppNeta, a SaaS-based network performance monitoring solution for the distributed enterprise that provides IT teams with precise, end-to-end visibility into network performance. With AppNeta’s SaaS-based solution, IT and Network Ops teams at distributed enterprises can detect issues that affect network and business-critical cloud application performance, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Equinix Metal updates; AgileBlue raises $2.25 million; HP releases patches for printer vulnerabilities
Equinix has announced new updates to Equinix Metal that will allow organizations to build and scale their SaaS offerings, modernize infrastructure, and facilitate hybrid multicloud architectures. New features include the availability of next gen processors like 3rd Gen AMD EPYC, Ampere Altra, and 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors; workload optimized servers; Nutanix Cloud Platform … continue reading
Gartner predicts top I&O trends for 2022
The IT world is changing faster than it ever has before, and IT professionals and decision-makers need to stay on top of these changes in order to respond accordingly for their organizations. In a talk at Gartner’s IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference, Jeffrey Hewitt, VP analyst at Gartner, shared predictions on the top … continue reading
Adapting I&O to an ever-changing world
Your typical symphony orchestra has highly skilled musicians playing unique instruments, led by a conductor who meshes the talent, horns, winds and percussion into beautiful music. And, because of the skills of the musicians, the group can go from playing a Tchaikovsky overture to a “Looney Tunes” theme without — literally — missing a beat. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Istio
Istio is an open source service mesh that simplifies observability, traffic management, security, and policy. It extends Kubernetes to establish a programmable, application-aware network using the Envoy service proxy. Istio 1.12 was recently launched with an improved experience with WebAssembly that allows users to dynamically load custom-built extensions at runtime through an API. The latest … continue reading
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 introduces automation mesh
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 is now generally available. New additions and more flexible automation architectures will enable customers to onboard more easily. Automation mesh is a new addition that replaces isolated nodes that were featured in version 1.2. Now, the automation control plane and execution plane are fully decoupled. Users can run automation … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Micro Focus release Operations Bridge – SaaS; Datto’s Autotask PSA on Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace; and Attivo Networks joins SentinelOne’s Singularity XDR Marketplace
Micro Focus has announced the release of Operations Bridge – SaaS, which is a new offering that will provide SaaS support for the company’s AIOps platform. The company believes the new offering will provide organizations with complete observability, faster issue resolution, greater efficiency through automation, and the ability to transform data into insights. “To develop … continue reading
