ITOps Times news digest: Splunk updates; JumpCloud Series F; vFunction Series A
Splunk has announced several updates to its observability portfolio, spanning the products Splunk APM, Splunk RUM, Splunk Synthetic Monitoring, Splunk Log Observer, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, and Splunk IT Service Intelligence. According to the company, these updates will help provide increased visibility, thus leading to improved performance, productivity, and innovation. “Observability at its core is a … continue reading
Report: Biometric authentication perceived as most secure login method
The FIDO Alliance has released its Online Authentication Barometer in order to provide the industry with insights into the state of online authentication, and it revealed that biometric authentication is the second most popular authentication method behind passwords. Biometric authentication means that a person uses something like their fingerprints or a scan of their face … continue reading
ManageEngine announces new endpoint management capabilities
ManageEngine announced the addition of data loss prevention for endpoints, anti-ransomware and endpoint compliance capabilities to its unified endpoint management (UEM) solution, Desktop Central. This follows a 500% spike in ransomware attacks since the move to remote work last year, according to a Bitdefender report. Also, ManageEngine’s 2021 Digital Readiness Survey found that 83% of … continue reading
CSNF aims to solve challenges of consuming alerts from multiple cloud providers
Technologists from a number of different companies have come together to develop a solution for creating multi-cloud security notifications. The result is the Cloud Security Notification Framework (CSNF) Decorator, the first public demo of which will take place at ONUG Fall ‘21 next week. According to a document released by the ONUG Collaborative Automated Cloud … continue reading
Crowdstrike launches Humio Community Edition
Crowdstrike launched a free Humio Community Edition to bring the power of streaming log management to a wider range of users. The community edition allows users to ingest 16 GB of data per day and retain the data for up to seven days. Users will receive ongoing access to the data and the offering does … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: New Relic I/O
The observability company New Relic launched New Relic Observability (I/O), which is an open-source ecosystem of quickstarts. It hopes that the catalogue will empower software engineers to instrument, dashboard and alert their technology stack. The company found that while most engineers and developers are familiar with observability, there’s a huge gap in adoption with only … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Dell’s edge innovations; CAST AI Series A; Oracle joins ONUG Collaborative
Dell has announced a number of innovations across its edge infrastructure portfolio. Updates encompass Dell EMC VxRail satellite nodes, the Litmus Industrial IoT edge platform, Dell EMC Edge Gateway, Dell EMC Streaming Data Platform, and Latitude 5430 Rugged and Latitude 7330 Rugged Extreme. “The edge is technology’s next great frontier, and it’s all around us, … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021: GitLab Operator; Falco updates; and Red Hat OpenShift latest version
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 kicked off earlier this week, and the event has resulted in a number of Kubernetes and cloud-native companies announcing updates to their platforms. Here are a few highlights: GitLab Operator now available The GitLab Operator allows developers to run instances of GitLab on Kubernetes platforms, like Red Hat OpenShift. … continue reading
Auth0 now available on Microsoft Azure
Auth0 announced that it launched its Auth0 Identity Platform on Microsoft Azure to unlock a secure cloud deployment option for organizations seeking strategic fit with their technology stack. Auth0’s identity platform provides organizations with tools to support security, compliance, and data residency that apply to them. Organizations requiring data residency options can take advantage of … continue reading
Google Cloud Next ‘21: Google Distributed Cloud, Google Cloud Cortex Framework, and Vertex AI Workbench
Google Cloud Next ‘21 kicked off today, and Google utilized the event to announce a number of updates to its cloud offerings. One new addition to the Google Cloud portfolio is Google Distributed Cloud, which includes software and hardware to extend the Google Cloud infrastructure to the edge and data centers. It is intended for … continue reading
Report: Major disconnect between understanding of security importance and implementation
A majority of organizations understand the importance of modern security in cloud native deployments, but few seem to be following through on that. According to a new survey from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), 85% of respondents consider modern security to be of the utmost importance. However, only 9% of those surveyed had a … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: IBM and Apptio partnership, NS1 Cloud-Managed DDI, and Cribl LogStream Cloud Enterprise Edition
IBM and Apptio have announced a new collaboration to help drive adoption of IBM’s open hybrid cloud. The companies will provide customers with optimization and migration capabilities to IBM Cloud through Red Hat OpenShift in Apptio’s financial decision engine. In addition, IBM Global Business Services will advise clients using strategy, design, road mapping, and architectural … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 kicks off
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 starts today, and already a number of companies have announced new updates to their Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms. Here are a few highlights of the news from the event: Seagate announces Exos X CSI Driver The Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver can be used to manage persistent volumes, control … continue reading
Facebook outage exposes emerging risks of modern SDN networks
The Oct. 4 outage that took Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram down for six hours is indicative of the issues we are facing in modern network architecture. While there has been a lot of chatter about misconfiguration and DNS failures, the reality could have more to do with Facebook’s software-defined networks and the propensity for errors … continue reading
